Why, Why, Why? (6 replies)

A common theme running through a lot of the feedback to the new design is "if it's not broke why fix it?", well here's why.

Small Heath Alliance has been running for 17 years, for about the last 10 years of it's been running on the same software, over the years, I've added things, removed things, subtly changed things, and to be brutally honest no matter what you think of the design behind the scenes it was held together with blue-tack and sellotape. It was a mess and it needed to be tidied up.

The changes you are seeing on the front end are only the tip of the iceberg, and I know that change to a design can be disconcerting and can take some time to get used to, very little functionality has changed at the moment, but what you are seeing on the desktop is basically the old mobile version desktopified, with a few things updated along the way. But these changes make a very real difference to what can be done at the backend.

It's not finished yet, but by releasing it into general use it allows me to make the changes needed to tidy everything up, I am listening to feedback and while I can't implement everything my hope is that most people will be happy with the 'final' redesign.