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LearnEnglish Central site changes: home page, navigation and images

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	LearnEnglish Central site changes


	What has changed and why have we changed it?

Introduction

If you are a return visitor to LearnEnglish Central you will have noticed that there is a different look and feel to the site. We have made some changes, but all of your old favourites are still available. This page is designed to help you understand why we have made the changes, and how you can find your way around.

Why change our site?

We are constantly trying to make our site better. We listen to experts, both in the field of education (in particular learning English as a foreign/second language) and also in the field of website technology. We have commissioned studies and evaluations of our site and looked very carefully at the recommendations made by the experts. Most importantly, though, we listen to you – our users – through the large amounts of feedback that you provide us with. When we put all this information together, the “new” site is what we came up with.

What changes have been made?

			Our home page has a different look and feel.
			The navigation has changed.
			The images on site are different.

After months of consultation, planning and testing, we’ve created a new home page and navigation system which we believe will mean a positive change for you, our users.

Apart from the user feedback and expert advice mentioned above, we use web statistics to select what should go on our home page – since space is limited, the new design attempts to get you to where you want to go as quickly as possible.

This information is also what drives our new navigation. Our feedback and statistics inform us what the most important things are for our users, and how we can get you there in the most logical way, while never forgetting the underlying pedagogical considerations that drive the site.

Finally, we hope that our use of new images will not only give the site a fresh look, but will help you to find what you want more efficiently. We have kept images commissioned to illustrate articles and stories, as well as our cartoon section, but all the other images are new.

We hope you enjoy the changes and find them useful as well.

Please send us your feedback by scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Changes in our navigation

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The old navigation of LearnEnglish Central looked like this:

Magazine, themes and links

Magazine
Themes
Links

Grammar and test yourself

Grammar
Test yourself

Culture and sport

Sport
UK Culture
Songs
Stories and poems

Fun stuff

Games
Cartoons
Trivia

Your turn

E-cards
Polls
Your texts

Listening

Science, history and archives

Science
History
Archives

About us

The new navigation of LearnEnglish Central looks like this:

Themes

General themes
Sport
Culture
Science
History

Test

Skills

Listening
Downloads
Reading
Magazine
Stories
Poems
Links
Polls
Writing
Your texts
E-cards

Practice

Grammar
Vocabulary

Fun

Games
Cartoons
Trivia

Archives

About us

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	your comments


	What do you think?

At 8 Jul 2008 21:44 Maria Teresa wrote:

I really appreciate what you have done and you arew doing just to better our English, give new ideas and advice too: thanks for the new site, sometimes changes are useful and pleasant at the same time. Thanks a lot.

At 8 Jul 2008 18:20 tania wrote:

I think this site of british council is a gerat soure of learning and inceasing vocabulary.there are amy process which seems to be my own school of learning grammer and vocabulary.I like this site very

At 6 Jul 2008 05:55 pink pen wrote:

thank you for this new and intersting pictures , i think they are really good and will attract visitors easly...they are great ...thank you very much for every one helped in this changing..

At 2 Jul 2008 16:43 Anaz Aboobacker wrote:

It is very helpful me to improve my english language, i appreciate you providing such a great training course to us.I would like to inform u that kindly include some gramatical articles it will be also much appreciate to u.

At 30 Jun 2008 05:49 hamad wrote:

it is helpful to improve on the learners different learning skills...I really appreaciate your new design.. thanks for new beginnings

At 29 Jun 2008 10:17 samira slam wrote:

The new design is okay, it's easier to find what we are looking for but I think you should add more grammar explanations and songs. Thank you for the work you're doing.

At 27 Jun 2008 17:41 Carlos wrote:

i think that's a wonderfull website to learn english...i'm from cartagena, colombia, and here i have learnt a lot of things i didn't know before.. i'm so thanksfull with british council!! keeping like that!! and go ahead!

At 26 Jun 2008 16:50 Neelofar wrote:

I really apperciate when this is changed. i usually check this site and i feel comfortable so that is said.

At 20 Jun 2008 12:35 Something wrote:

I`m now just cheking up the site and I`m satisfied enough already! It`s chillin`! I will do my best to keep it visiting regularly in order to be satisfied even more! Thank you!

At 18 Jun 2008 17:53 sawsan hassan omer wrote:

Good evening I would like to thank you very much for your helping us to learn English free.I do make use of all the good items you provide,but I do miss the listining stories and songs that help and amuse us a lot so please put thewm again on line.

At 18 Jun 2008 11:35 Stephane wrote:

I think the new look of this site will attract more people to surf it because it's really very good and well orients.

At 5 Jun 2008 08:36 HOUNKPATIN BORGIA wrote:

no comments and because the changes are positives so they are wellcomed .and all my best wishes to those who think and work for these changes .

At 30 May 2008 16:08 camila silva cavieres wrote:

very good!

At 24 May 2008 17:28 alper tunga k. wrote:

it is helpful to improve on the learners different learning skills...I really appreaciate your new design.. thanks for new beginnings :)

At 23 May 2008 13:27 Branka wrote:

I like studying English and your new site helps me a lot.I hope I will found many interesting things on it.Wishong you all bhe best.

At 11 May 2008 14:57 Nikolle Uka from Kosovo wrote:

I think that this webpage is really a good opportinity to learn English. I am learning o lot from this wesite. Alle the best Nikolle

At 10 May 2008 07:37 jatin wrote:

this is a great website for those who are very much in need to learn english and in no time... thanks a lot for such a site

At 9 May 2008 13:22 Carolina Caliman wrote:

I love this site. Is perfect! Thank you for your help.

At 8 May 2008 16:33 ewelina wrote:

I think the new navigation is good, but not as good as the british council britishcentres.eu site

At 6 May 2008 00:39 Ervin wrote:

It's a great web and I had learn a lot from this website. Do the best you can and it will be OK. Especially I prefer the Mp3 records. Thank you very much!!

At 3 May 2008 15:16 lulee wrote:

great wep site

At 2 May 2008 12:56 s.roohulla wrote:

I really appreciate changes on this site. I regularly check your newsletters and I feel a beatiful change now. Wish you all the best...

At 30 Apr 2008 16:04 Jrge Paulo da Silva wrote:

Its very important to change. I dont speak english very well but I like very much this site. And this show that you are doing a good work. Thanks for this work.

At 29 Apr 2008 14:48 James F (teacher) wrote:

The new navigation makes more sense. The different sections are now more logical and I will be recommending the site to my students as a valuable self-study resource.

At 29 Apr 2008 14:40 Marisa wrote:

I think that the new look is great! I liked the old pictures but I like these ones more - it is more uniform