The original ESERA website has been our online presence for more than a decade. We are very grateful to Wenche Erlien for the initial design and also for managing the original website, on a volunteer basis, throughout this time.

We have felt that the time has come to modernize the website and also create a new design. The Board also decided to move the hosting of the website to Cyprus.

The new design presents a more modern look and has community participation features, including links to an ESERA Facebook page and Twitter. We have also designed a process for online membership renewal and for connecting with the ESERA conference system so that membership can be validated automatically for the purpose of offering (or denying) the members’ conference rate.

The new design of the ESERA website has been running on a test server since July 2012 and it has also been presented and used at a special workshop in the ESERA Summer School in Bad Honnef. It will go live at the same time as the conference submission system, on 15 November 2012.

The new website has been designed by SNQ digital (http://snqdigital.com/). The ESERA Board offers its special thanks and appreciation to Wenche Erlien for all the help with making this transition but also for her support and ideas throughout the long life of the original design!