New homepage

If you've been to www.justgiving.com today you'll have noticed that it's a bit different:

Yes, we've added a few new things, plus a bit of spit and polish, to update the site for 2008.

So what's new?

The first thing you'll see is that we've added an overview of fundraising on the site (in the top right) to show how many people have used the site to raise money for you, the charities, on Justgiving. This is updated every night and helps put people at ease that they can feel confident doing the same thing.

THE most important button on the site (start fundraising now) has been moved to the left to make it more prominent, but it's in the right box is where things get interesting!

We're promoting the London Marathon and New Year resolution pages at the top and then we show pictures from real fundraising pages showing how much they've raised and for whom.

As for how the pages are selected, every night we pull a random selection of 50 pages that meet certain criteria: a page with a user-uploaded page image, a page that has raised over £100 and a page that is not an In Memoriam page.

The idea behind this is that it gives more visibility to the things people are doing on the site, it encourages people to upload their own images, and by only including pages with donations, it is supposed to give examples of how easy it is to raise money on the site.

Every time you refresh the page, you'll see the images change from one of those random 50 pages.

The sponsor a friend search is still there, as is (of course!) the charity search as below:

You'll no doubt notice that we've added a new footer to every page on Justgiving that gives all the info anyone would need (especially a new link to the charities blog - yay!).

And, one thing you might not have noticed is that the site has been centred - so now people can print fundraising pages without having to set their print settings to landscape - a small, but helpful change.

But, as ever, we'd love to hear your feedback, so leave a comment below and tell us what you think (good or bad)...