Online community for primary care workers

[adrian jones]

Over the past couple of months I have been working on an online community for practice staff in the UK, including GP Surgery managers, administrators, secretaries and receptionists.

They must pay for annual subscription (Will be free for first few hundred members to build community) but for this, they get the online community (discussion forum with private messaging etc.) and also a members area containing documents they can download, different directorys for booking locum doctors, finding surgery-related suppliers (with special discounts for members) and more.

I haven't launched the site yet, the only thing I am waiting for is some text off the companies who will be advertising on the website and giving my members their discount so while I am waiting, I wonder if you could kindly review my website and give feedback.

In order to see the members area you must register but use promo code PCCBETA and once I activate the account you create, i'll delete the e-mail I receive so that you don't end up getting one of my invoices.
Just write any old blurb in the surgery address fields as obviously you wont be working in this sector.

Many thanks in advance for your feedback.

Adey

[George Dolidze]

• It's a pretty clean cut site
• The gradients looks quite nice. I like how you positioned the main one
• The tabbed navigation is also pretty awesome.
• The news page looks very messy. I suggest more clear cut sections.
• I like the calendar. Very neat.
• I don't think you should include the "There are over 9000 practices [...]" text on all the pages. The home page should be sufficient enough.
• Put some info in the footer.
• I would somehow differentiate the 'forum' and 'member's home' navigation, because they lead to a site that looks completely different, and it might throw people off.

[adrian jones]

Great feedback thanks,
I will have a play about with the members area because ideally, I want it looking the same way as the site, but it is made through the phpbb software and the site is developed through wordpress.

I will also try and tidy the news page up a bit, thats using a simplepie plugin that pulls in up to date news feeds from a few health related news sites.

And finally, the text at the top is included in a seperate header page that most pages just have a php include to. Without removing the include and just pasting the header in to each page, i'm not sure how else to solve this one.

Thanks again.
Adey

[adrian jones]

I have now styled the news page, does this look better than previously?

Adey