Since then the website has proved a major part of SRT's outreach. Dozens of media inquires to us from radio and TV researchers and producers had been initiated by seeing the SRT website. This has led not only to front line media appearances such as Newsnight, Today, Good Morning Scotland and the Jonathan Dimbleby programme, but also advising the producers who design the angle and nature of documentaries and debates. The website is also a resource to point people to, who contact SRT for a reliable view on a current issue. Traffic varies enormously, however.
Biotechnology is by far our biggest area for visits.
Risk issues and God and science are our next most popular, but environment and energy receive comparatively little attention. It depends where you are known. Running the website I learned HTML from the ground upwards in 1995. From the outset we kept images to a minimum, and avoided frames except on our publications list - where the priority was for easy ways to go back and forth around a database. We went for maximum cross linking and indexing, reflecting the complexity of subject connections among the issues we cover.