Welcome to the new community website

Hello, and welcome to the new version of Bradford on Avon’s community website.

What’s different

• The site is simpler and easier to use.
• There’s no need to log in any more; all user accounts have been deleted.
• The business directory has been drastically simplified.
• The events calendar is now shared with the one maintained by Bradford on Avon Tourism Information Centre. To add events, click here.
• The following sections have been removed because they were hardly used: Youth News, Politics, Links list, Photo Gallery, Votes & Polls, and Classifieds.

Why we’ve changed things this way

Several reasons:

• Simplicity. We wanted to make a site that was easier to use and easier to maintain.
• Time. We look after this web site voluntarily, in our spare time. We needed something that was quicker and easier to manage.
• Easier contributions. Our old process for submitting articles was long-winded and hard for people to grasp. The new system is much simpler: go to the Submit page, fill the boxes, and click send. That’s it. There’s no need to sign up for a user account first.

There will probably be some hiccups and breakages as we settle in to the new system, so please forgive us if you see things that don’t make sense.

We’d love to know what you think, and if you have any suggestions or contributions. Please contact us with your thoughts. Thanks.

– Giles and Rich, website team