Well at £40k you'd have thought that you wouldn't have to resort to the site search feature to find for example a CSC homepage rather than a 'this is what this CSC is according to whoever wrote the site blurb".

Not impressed.

Grrr. I filled in the customisation form that appeared. Now every link I click on is https but every image is http so I get stuipid "not all of this web page is secure" popups in IE

RG:

Did you not try the links at the foot of every page? Or is that too simple?

The nav bar seems a bit cluttered but it's pretty good. And the (very impressive I believe) backend is what we paid 40k for.

Agreed with C!

Well annoying!

Use Firefox! Problem solved.

The backend of the site is actually very powerful - i've spent the last three weeks working with it, and it's good stuff.

As a normal cynic on these subjects I have to say that I am very impressed with the site. The admin side is very cool, and we have setup our trip to Wales this weekend in the system, so we can pay for our trip online - now that is serious progress...

"Well done ICU" - not often i say that!

You can't expect everyone to use FireFox. Seeing as how more than 50% of people use IE, the site should be aimed at being compatible with (at least) that browser...

Telling 'n00bz' to switch to FF is hardly a viable solution...

Its an excellent webpage, with great features etc, but what about the Crest? Where's the traditional IC crest? Doesnt anyone care about the crest?

To Bob,

Rather unfortunately it is IE which is installed on the clusters in elec eng & the library. If I want to use firefox then I have to remote desktop into fpgaX.ee.ic.ac.uk and it's not worth the effort.

In addition to the https problem, I cannot select test in IE6

Who cares about the crest... ICU is not the college.

I heard a certain Newspaper Editor is very unhappy that Live! have a banner on the site! All I can say is - HA HA HA HA HA.....

Hahahahahaha love that banner!

Inspired banner, guys.

I'll add my congratulations to the banner. It's making my morning.

Thanks for the generally positive comments, the issue with IE has been solved and apologies to those it affected. We can understand you finding it annoying! If you experience any problems please contact unionwebhelp@imperial.ac.uk - we need to be aware of any issues you may be experiencing during the launch of the website.

Whilst I admit that it doesn't seem that the PhysSci website has been updated for a while I think it's a shame that the RCSU logo at the bottom of the front page links to the Life Sci webpage only. Not sure what I'd suggest as an alternative at the moment though - bit of a grey area in the crossover between FLS/FPS/FNS. I gather the wheels are in motion for a spangly RCSU site soon.

I've just tried it in Safari- using the browser back button keeps taking me to the "This site will be launched soon" page, although I suspect that could be a caching issue- how do I fix that?

So I switched to IE, and there the frames were all out-of-place, although that probably serves me right for using IE on a Mac.

nice crests, good to hold onto the heritage that dicky sykes is so keen to chuck in the bin...

so where's the rsm crest?

Unfortunately the RSM is not a faculty union, it's effectively a departmental society these days. Wye or Silwood aren't faculty unions either, which is why their crests are also not included.

That's terrible. Just because they are not 'proper' Unions doesn't mean that they can't have a crest. Really, what harm is it going to do including them - it would look better. And where is the IC crest? I thought we were moving away from the 'corparate' look!!

Looks pretty impressive, nice layout, good images and all, well done!

despite the rsm having a website they could link to, and encompassing more heritage than the Faculty of Life Sciences, and being more active than the rest of the university put together

Look miners, the simple fact is that last year you went from a Faculty Union to a Clubs and Societies Comittee, all be it one with a lot of traditions and a highly active one. You do not get a crest because of that change, in just the same way as the rugby club do not get a crest despite them having a long history and many traditions.

I don't particularly agree with "being more active than the rest of the university put together" What do you guys actually do? Sit around and drink? Well doesnt the sports clubs do that as well as actually doing some activities??!!

Corrections:

The IC crest is not the logo of ICU, which is why it isn't being used on their new website.

The RSMU / CSC was never a Faculty Union although it was once a Constituent College Union (CCU). The RSM Union voted to lose its CCU status in 2001 when the Constituent Colleges were "abolished". At the time of their abolition, CCUs had fewer powers and responsibilities than modern Faculty Unions do.

Rant:

I very much sympathise with those who are irritated about how arrogant and out-of-touch some miners seem to be these days. Sure, many of them are great fun and aren?t interested in boasting about great the RSM supposedly is.

However; a few rowdy bar nights, a couple of chaotic dinners and an annual rugby match against a third rate team from Cornwall does not make the RSM CSC "more active than the rest of the university put together"!

Anyone know what happened to CSG in the Department of Computing? I heard that about 5 of them got sacked.

I have a funny feeling that there's an article on the way ... keep an eye out tomorrow.

Is live now on the front page of ICU.org?

If you have flash installed, yes it is.