Our website is getting on in years. Our most recent complete overhaul was in 2013. Since then, countless pieces of content have been added and minor updates made. When support for our CMS (content management system), in our case Joomla, was discontinued a little over a year ago, things came to a standstill.
In particular, the new technological developments, particularly those moving towards responsive design, necessitated a complete rebuild of our website. I have been working intensively on this rebuild over the past six months. My thanks also go to our Indian web design company isquare, which has supported me in many ways and has been available day and night with advice and assistance.
The design and text content are already largely consistent. However, the many video sequences embedded in our old site still pose many problems. The many different formats such as WMV, AVI, Mov, and mp4 are not infinitely compatible. However, to ensure access to the material for as many of our users as possible, all video sequences have been and are being re-encoded in mp4 and HTM5. This means they should be widely accessible.
Unfortunately, this involves hours of work, which of course runs in addition to our office hours. However, I see the potential for a good website to provide a lot of background information that might otherwise be neglected. I hope our patients like the new site and that it allows them to find information and exercise instructions. The ability to book an appointment directly in our office hours or request x-rays has also been improved.