Dear Friends,
In recent weeks, the FAN website has been much quieter than normal, but it’s for a good and exciting reason.
Some of you may have noticed that we haven’t been uploading daily news items, and we’ve only shared limited updates on our homepage and in our newsletter section. This is because the FAN staff, along with a team of contractors, have been completing the final stages of a year-long website redesign project. In March, we reached a point in the process that required us to limit changes to the existing webpage format to ensure a smooth transition of all of FAN’s content to the new format. This will continue to be the case for another week or so, but you should start to notice other changes.
Over the next several weeks, FAN will be “soft-launching” the redesigned website in phases. This will allow our team to locate and fix issues that typically arise with redesigns of this size; this includes broken links, missing graphics, and issues with formatting, such as paragraph and border spacing. The first phase is what I’m calling a “draft” phase. While the content has already been updated behind the scenes, what you see during the first phase may not fully reflect all of those updates as they’re continuing to be coded. As each new phase is launched, you will see additional graphics, updated content, and experience fewer technical issues (if any).
We’re thrilled to be so close to sharing this project with all of you. The updates will make FAN’s site mobile phone friendly, dramatically improve user navigation, utilize an amazing Google-free search function to help you locate exactly what you want from our 20,000 pages, bring greater awareness to our issue by improving search engine rankings (or SEO) for our content, showcase updated resources, improve our site security and functionality, and much more.
We appreciate your patience while we phase-in the new site, and we thank you for your continued support that has helped make all of this possible.
Sincerely,
Stuart Cooper
Executive Director
Fluoride Action Network