Completed Couch To 5K

9 weeks ago I started on the Couch To 5K (C25K) running program. Today I completed it. C25K is a really good program to start running if you’ve not done so for many years, ie since school. It starts you …


Websites and browser compatibility

About six months ago Mozilla altered it’s Firefox release schedule to aim for one release every other month or so. So whilst the time span from Firefox 3 to Firefox 4 was around three years, that from version 4 to …


The National Elf Service

The National Elf Service is a network of health related WordPress blogs setup and managed by Minervation. So far there four blogs as part of the network: Mental Elf Dental Elf Diabetes Elf Learning Disabilities Elf The idea is to …


Vitamin D Council

The Vitamin D Council is a US charity promoting the health benefits of Vitamin D as well as the consequences of being Vitamin D deficient. It is Minervation’s highest traffic website and required the development of a caching system to …


OUBEP

In June 2011 Minervation launched a new website for Oxford University Business Economics Programme (OUBEP). This is another reasonably simply brochure, making good use the image manager functionality. Later in the year a private blog for alumni of the programme …


TVCN

Another cancer site created by Minervation, this time for the Thames Valley Cancer Network. The site is for health professionals, non-clinical staff, users and carers within the Thames Valley.  It provides find information about the Network groups with restricted access …


IDRAS

IDRAS stands for “Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service” and it’s aim is to resolve disputes between academics and students and the institutions they work for. Minervation started work on this site in 2010 and it is the first site by …


UKCRC

Minervation took over the hosting of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) website in early 2010. We didn’t actually do the design, the task was mainly to re-implement the site using our CMS.  Although we did do some design and …


AGREE

AGREE stands for “Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation” and is an instrument for evaluating the process of practice guideline development and the quality of reporting. Their new site was developed by Minervation in 2010 and includes an online …


Carers and confidentiality

Minervation built and launched this site for Rethink in 2010. It was co-production with Rethink and Seefood.tv. The site is “an online learning resource to help health professionals to manage issues of confidentiality and negotiate information sharing dilemmas with family/friend …