Improving mealsinfields

The major overhaul of mealsinfields is now in progress.  On Friday last week we agreed some major changes with the website designers, Devmac of Burton on Trent, which will make the website easier to use for everyone.  The changes need some serious programming so please bear with us for a couple of months whilst we make sure that everything is ready and that all the recipes and all the information on where to stop, shop and dine are properly migrated to the new system.

What can you expect?  Here is a short list of the most important changes - many of which are in response to your requests.

1. As soon as you recommend a business to be included in the Where to pages, brief details will be added automatically.
2. Businesses will be able to access and amend their own personal pages as often as they like.
3. You will be able to search for a business in a particular county, matching your criteria. No more trolling through a long, long list to get what you want.
4. You will be able to add recipes yourself straight from the website - no more e-mails to me and a delay whilst I add the recipe for you.
5. You will be able to add photos of the finished dishes when submitting your recipe.
6. We are adding a printer friendly version of the recipes so you will be able to print without copying and pasting.

In the meantime, we still want your recipes and your recommendations of new businesses to add to the website.  We will add all the businesses, but may hold some of the recipes over for the launch of the new look meals in fields.

Please bear with us.  This is a massive project as there is so much data to move.  Don't worry, you will not lose the website - we will simply replace the old with the new.  The old version will keep working until we have everything in place ready to make the switch.

We will keep you posted on progress, but expect to see a new and exciting website in the early Summer.