New-look website launched today!

We have today launched a redesign of our website, with a key focus on improving user experience to help people find what they want, faster.

The redesign includes a complete overhaul of the layout, structure and navigation of the College’s whole family of sites: Professionals, Animal Owners, Find a Vet and RCVS Knowledge.

Some of the main improvements are:

• A new level of navigation at the very top of every page to allow easy transition between the College’s different sites (similar to the BBC website).
• A greater focus on key content and services straight from the homepage, including latest updates from ‘external’ sites like Mind Matters and Vet/VN Futures.
• A dedicated site for the College’s Find a Vet service, with further improvements that make it even easier to find veterinary practices, veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses.
• New 'mega menus' and improved search tools to help users find what they want more quickly and easily.
• Page design and layout more in line with current best practice, to make reading easier and navigation simpler.
• A ‘mobile first’ approach to design to ensure the website works optimally on all mobile devices, as well as desktop.

Ian Holloway, Head of Communications, said: “We’re delighted to be launching our new-look site today and hope all the improvements we’ve incorporated will make using the site a much better experience for veterinary professionals and animal owners alike.

“Working closely with our website providers, NetXtra, over the past nine months, we’ve been able to develop a new-look site with vastly improved design, structure and navigation, whilst avoiding the major expense of building a completely new website from scratch.

“We’re very grateful to them, and to all those vets, vet nurses and members of the public who have helped us with user-testing and content mapping to improve the site as much as possible for everyone who uses it.”

If you have any comments or feedback about our new site, do please get in touch via [email protected].