Our new-look website

by Stuart's campaign team

While Stuart's on holiday, we've been overhauling his website. Not every new feature is functioning yet but here's a brief guide to the changes we've made.

The first thing you'll notice is that the site's bigger on the screen. We're using the industry standard of a 1,000 pixel width compared to the old site's 900 width. This means we can fit more in, and also space the site out better. Apologies to anyone who is using a screen resolution of less than 1,000. We're also using light background colours which also help make the site feel more spacious.

The next important upgrade is to the menu bar - you'll see that we've added drop-down menu items as you move the mouse over each of the main menu options. From now on you should be able to get to every aspect of the website from the front page - or from any page using this new look menu bar.

In respect of our news section, the wide-screen format has enabled us to use larger images and make posts appear shorter.

And we've also made the map on the constituency page larger - remember that you can zoom in or out, or move the map around as you like using the navigation tools on that page.

We've a lot of new features: the issues menu option will help you find Stuart's views on key matters of local and national interest and by the end of the month you'll be able to access Stuart's photo gallery, a diary of local events and links to local, regional and national sites of relevance.

Please bear with us as we change the site over - there will be some pages that don't necessarily work immediately, and some that may still have the old design but we're on it!