Site news (technical)
This page contains technical details relating to this website.
2007 : Better navigable sections
Redeveloped Early Years, Education, Work/Employment sections
March 2006 : Phase 3 redevelopment of site
Launch of redeveloped site with improved accessibility and design features.
January 2005 : New failover server and DNS update
New failover server and DNS update live. Website remained available 100% during the entire server upgrade process, less 10 minutes for testing. Benefits include:
- Updated to latest fully supported version operating system
- Increased security
December 2004 : Forum software upgrade to latest version
December 2004 : Operating system upgrade to live server
Website ported to new live server. Benefits include:
- Updated to latest fully supported version operating system
- Faster browsing for users
- Processor power increased
October 2004 : P3 accessibility and usability improvements
Improved accessibility of contact and search forms.
May 2004 : www.scope.org.uk brand refresh
New logo for website and associated updated content.
May 2004 : Time to Get Equal launched
New Time to Get Equal website launched : www.timetogetequal.org.uk
April 2004 : Forum launched
January 2004 : New servers
Website ported to new server on 12.01.04. Benefits include:
- Faster browsing for users : page download times massively improved (up to 100% speed reduction). This is an additional increase to the already substantial reduction in download times achieved upon the launch of the rebuilt website (11.8.03).
- Improved site stability
- Updated to latest fully supported version OS
- Processor power of server doubled
- Improved capacity for future development (medium to long-term) and user functionality
August 2003 : Website relaunched
Following a consultative process with site users, the Scope website was rebuilt and relaunched in Autumn 2003. Many of the new features are documented below:
- dramatically improved accessibility functionality including:
- new text-only browser settings
- relative links (in supported browsers)
- access keys
- reduced download times for users
- new improved navigation focusing upon Scope's priority areas
- redesigned look and feel enhances presentation of content
- improved information architecture
- more secure and stable codebase for future development
- W3C HTML4 and CSS validated templates
- fixed poor accessibility of the old site (poor front page colours, home page rollovers and dhtml navigation menus impractical for non-mouse users, and no accesskeys)
1995 : Website launched
Scope's website was one of the first to be set up. Since then there have been many revisions and accessibility improvements.