Friday 1 April 2011

The Regency Society new website

The Regency Society, the city's oldest conservation society now has a new website. In an effort, no doubt, to appear modern the elegant traditional-style font of the banner heading has been supplanted by sans-serif and the ammonite capital motif has been abandoned. The old website suffered from a cramped, over-busy look; the new lacks visual impact, the word that jumps to mind is 'pallid'. It does, however appear to be more logically laid-out, easier to navigate and the pages quicker to load.

5 comments:

  1. Apparently the version shown is still in 'beta. Alterations in style & appearance will be straightforward and can be expected.

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  2. Mostly the Regency Society logo offends. Both the logo and website were put together by Trustee Sarah Gibbings,who tells me she is a communications strategist and the job was to "reposition" the Regency Society. Why then create a logo/masthead that messages about as clearly as an MI5 front organisation? That is to say - no message.

    No home page, no search engine on the website....and because of the use of software ($28 a month if not actually free) from CushyCMS, there is a possibility that no search engine can be installed.

    Valerie Paynter, saveHOVE

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  3. I'm told CushyCMS software is best suited for a static site that has a small number of permanent pages that rarely change - such as a restaurant might have and the only the menu page would be updated with changes, say. This inhibits the ability of the Regency Society to 'grow' its site.

    Adding a search engine would be a new instruction with new costs attached to get it on.

    I'm advised that 'Joomla' - the free software used by Hot Chilli Box who 'designed' the repositioned Regency Society website - would have been more suitable.

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  4. Note to readers: The Regency Society website currently appears to have been taken offline.

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  5. Thank you for your comments on the Regency Society Facebook page.

    Valerie Paynter, saveHOVE

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