Our 'Old' website had been serving us well since 2007, but technology moves fast these days and we had already began to feel the pinch of its technical limitations, particularly as the site is often maintained by transitory volunteers who may have very basic computer skills - or less!

And so we appealed for a Website Guru to help us make a site that was even easier to use and navigate, and 12 months later 2 appeared. It took a couple of months of laborious copying, pasting and reformatting and lots of other technical high jinx hampered by temperamental internet connection and an impermanent electricity supply, but we ended up with the rather lovely site you see before you now, with one of our beautiful new Tara Statues as the star! (pictured left)

The advantages of this site are many, but the main plus is that most information is now centralised through the calendar. This makes the schedule easier to read and keeps all the related information tidy and up-to-date. It also gives us a lot of scope to upload documents and audio files, but for the moment we'll have to wait until our internet connection catches up with us!

We built it and they came!

Another interesting development with the new site is that through Google Analytics, we are now able to get a sense of who looks at our website - and SO many people! We made the new site live in mid-November 2010; in the first 5 months, we had over 18,000 hits, from 2,200 cities in 130 different countries (illustrated right)... Astounding. Making the site so much more accessible and user-friendly has obvious implications for the centre, and as you can see from the 2010 Report, Tushita continues to thrive.