The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 264 No 7085 p326
February 26, 2000 The Society

Society to offer branches their own pages on new-look website

Society to offer branches their own pages on new-look website
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to offer its branches their own pages on its internet website following a relaunch late this summer. Features planned for the new site include a "members only" section which will include branch information and membership news. The Society plans to allocate each branch the space to build its own web pages, to be used for announcing events and for providing contact details and other relevant information. Style templates will be supplied, so that the branch pages are clearly part of the overall site.
The main objective of the website's redesign and extension is to make it an important part of the Society's communications strategy with both the membership and the public.
The Society has identified five aims for the new site:

• To enhance member benefit through improved access to information and services
• To enhance communication between members and the Society
• To make Society-generated information more widely available, including to the public where appropriate
• To provide a means for increasing the scope of the Society's published output
• To demonstrate that the Society is up to date, open and efficient

The Society has appointed a website designer to produce design templates for the new-look site. The site is already being managed by a full-time website editor (Mrs Mary Snell, MRPharmS), with support from a technical consultant (Mr Clive Hemingway).