Dear colleagues

The NAEPP website is being upgraded to the latest version of software (Drupal 6).  This will be followed very quickly by further upgrades to the functionality of the site, in particular the long-promised improvements to the notifications system.  The theme (appearance) will also be improved.

In an ideal world all these changes would happen together in one big bang.  But that is a more costly approach because we would have to test everything out and then go back and reapply changes from the very beginning to the live system.  So we are following a middle way and doing things in stages.

The first part is to upgrade the software and this means using a different theme temporarily.  But generally, things are where they used to be even if the colour is different.

Among the other changes are the following:

• the wysiwyg editor has changed and now sits above not below the text box.  it works pretty much the same as the old one
• the way we handle premium content (ie content for full users) has changed - it should give you a more meaningful message rather than an access-denied page
• we should be able to re-introduce the "pager" on the site index and information library index, so they will load more quickly

On a different note, I have become aware how many of the older links in the Information Library no longer work (far too many!) and I will be working through to update those in coming weeks.  Sorry about that. We will be introducing some link-checking software to try and make sure that doesn't happen in the future.

Please let us kow if you find any problems with the site - emailing to admin@naepp.org.uk

Best wishes

David Gibbens