Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:26 am (PST) . Posted by: "Catherine Phillips"
Dear all

We were lucky enough to get an extra 2.5k from our TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company) this year for marketing, and we have used it to update our website

(www.heartofwessex.org.uk<http://www.heartofwessex.org.uk>)

This is to pass on a tip to anyone thinking of doing the same, if, like me, you are not very tecckie. (No need to read on if you are!)

If someone else is designing a site for you, insist from the outset that it must work on all browsers, including the older ones.

I found out (almost too late) that all our funding partner organisations still use Internet Explorer 8 or 9.

I (now) understand that will be the case for many public and even some private sector organisations.

I did all the work, and supplied all the content to the designers, from my home computer which uses Chrome as default, double checking on my i phone (Safari) to make sure the different page designs responded well. I didn't check it on my work computer (IE8) until near the end. I then had a very nasty negotiating tussle with the suppliers re the cost of applying patches to make the website work on what they refer to as "legacy browsers" - they insisted this did not form part of the quote I had approved from them. For a while I was actually up against the possibility that our major funding partners would not be able to view our website correctly on their office computers unless I went over budget.

Most of you probably knew all that already, but having gone through a short but intense period of trauma, I felt I should pass this on in the cause of saving someone else from those sleepless nights!

Catherine

Heart of Wessex Rail Partnership Officer

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