GoWEB Making A Splash Again

For those of you who have been using GoWEB before 2008, you would know that we have  a tradition of upgrading our portal often. In 2008, we did a rewrite of our code and produced a better version of the then layout. This incarnation received so many positive reviews that it lasted two years with no major updates.

However, today we are pleased to announce the latest incarnation of GoWEB, codenamed “Splash”. For this incarnation, we’ve tried to keep the  basic layout with which you are familiar, but 99% of the underlying source code has been rewritten from scratch. The site you see today is NOT an update, but a totally new version, created with the latest web technologies available. All sections of the site have been redesigned from the ground up.

This meant that we had to make a decision about our themes. It wasn’t as simple as just “reusing” the old themes because the HTML elements of the page were being rewritten and renamed. We would have had to recreate the themes from scratch as well. We thought, what’s the point of recreating the same theme? As long as we have to recreate everything, lets do something fresh and new. The result is the “Splash Theme”, which is our default theme. To date, we have made two other themes, namely “Hibiscus” and “Nature”, but hang tight, more are on the way.

We hope you enjoy this redesign and have fun looking around to see what’s changed and what’s new. There are some totally new features on the site which we will not mention yet, but leave you to find. Until next post, happy surfing.