The new Greenpeace UK site: a guide

The Greenpeace website has been restructured, redesigned and relaunched, with a load of new features to help us campaign more effectively, and to make it easier for you to get involved. Here's what's changed, and how to find your way around:

Latest news

The news stories of old have been replaced by blog-style reporting. This is where we'll be posting all of our updates, action alerts, thoughts and ideas. Because we didn't want to throw away all the news stories we've written over the years, we've archived them in the blog for reference - but, from now on, entries will be quite different from the old stories.

As with most blogs, the newest stories will always be at the top, you'll be able to see who wrote what and you can comment on what you read.
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Commenting and registering

You don't have to register to browse the site, but if you'd like to comment on the blog or sign up to our e-bulletin, you will need to. It's quick, easy and you only have to do it once. Then you can update your account and subscribe or unsubscribe to the ebulletin at any time.
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del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg

The icons you can see at the bottom of the blog stories are links to social networking sites, letting you share web pages you like with others. This is extremely important to the campaigning we do - it helps us reach a wider audience and find out which stories you're most interested in, so please get stuck in!
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Tags

You'll also see "tags at the bottom of most pages: words or phrases describing the subject matter of the page. Tags give you another way to browse the site, alongside using the menu and the search box. Just click on a word or phrase to see other pages on the same subject.

Campaign information

The old site evolved pretty much organically over several years - we like organic but the campaign pages were getting out of hand and very out of date. So we've written the campaign pages (in the What we do section) from scratch to make sure all the information is relevant and up-to-date.

We're still working on some of the more detailed information, so please bear with us for a while. If you can't find a page you're looking for that you know was on the old site, drop us a line and we'll try to dig it out for you.

Site structure

As well as adding the blog, we've fashioned the rest of the site into a hopefully more coherent structure and more usable navigation.

Pages about Greenpeace (contact details, our story, job vacancies, ship information and the like) have all been updated and reorganised into the cunningly named About Greenpeace section.

Background information on each one of our current campaigns can be found under What we do - if you want to know what decentralised energy is or why beam trawling is bad, this is where to look.

To find out how to get active, sign up for the e-bulletin and hear about other ways to support us, visit What you can do.

Finally, the Media centre still archives our press releases, reports and still images, but we've added "in the news", so you can keep track of media stories on Greenpeace and our campaigns.

RSS

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and, once you've got the hang of it, it really is simple. We now have a dozen or so feeds available, so you can choose whether to receive updates about specific campaigns, from the blog, just press releases or the whole shebang.
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Intellectual property

We've moved to Drupal, an open source content management platform. We've also changed the copyright on the site from "all rights reserved" to "some rights reserved", meaning you have more freedom in how you copy and use the writing on the site.
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Thanks

The new site was built by Echoditto, designed by BiroCreative, hosted by Rackspace and informed by the feedback you gave us in surveys and emails last year. A big thank you from the Greenpeace web team to everybody involved for all the hard work and late nights over recent months.

Now that the site's launched, we're looking forward to getting on with what we're really here for: some powerful online campaigning to defend the natural world and promote peace.