australia.coop Relaunched

Written by David Griffiths Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:17

The australia.coop web site has been redesigned incorporating the open source software Joomla. The site was originally established in January 2003 - the first Dot Coop country portal.

Key features of the redesign include a searchable and dynamic calendar, website accessibility, the capacity to email and pdf content, an RSS feed and two new sub-domains - Co-operative Education and Co-operative Health.

The site also incorporates a new logo for Co-operatives Victoria.

Wherever possible, the pages on the site have been designed to meet the Level-AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide web Consortium (W3C).

Another feature of the site is a Co-operative Governance email newsletter to provide site updates for subscribers to the newsletter. The Co-operative Education and Co-operative Health sub-domains also have newsletters.

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