This website is designed and maintained by Robert Fulton and is powered by WordPress. It offers service information to prospective clients and enhances the experience of current clients by offering service resources. Site development is charted by the changelog below.

15.0.1 (planned for 15.1 but brought forward)

Headerbar- The site logo was removed from desktop and tablet views to make the bar more consistent across the site and load faster. These views have a welcome image on the homepage instead. The logo was kept for mobile to draw attention to the menu button, plus the lack of words mean the sizing bugs didn’t happen on mobile. 

15.0

Booking page updates- this was moved to the service providers in-house solution rather than a plugin. It should be more reliable and secure. The times were also moved to be a button within the session types and not separate sessions, adding this functionality from the new version of the booking providers service. 

Privacy improvements- The GDPR cookie notice has a bigger banner that will make the use of cookies clearer and a link to the privacy policy. The policy was updated to give more details and reassurance about GDPR compliance. 

Accessibility improvements- the website was altered to have better contrasting colours and underline links to assist viewers with visual impairments. The phone UI menu was changed to a button as these are expected on mobile devices and should be easier to understand. The news section was reformatted to take less space, have 3 recent entries and be cards to make clear they are clickable. 

Performance improvements- some backend services like cache were updated to improve the sites performance. Images were reformatted as AVIF format. These are much smaller (sometimes 70% smaller) at the same quality so will load much faster.

14.0

Tools update- significant updates to EMDR, schema and CBT tools. Addition of alternative EMDR protocols and phobia work in CBT. Many tools like the thought record and introductory schema tools have been remade. 

13.1

Website refresh- The therapy and clinical supervision pages are updates with new information on the range of services offered. Homepage offered more information on the pages of the site.

13.0

UI- contrast on tabs and links increased to be easier to see for those with visual issues. Formatting of text changed for better readability. 

Tools- The catalogue was reorganised with fewer tabs to be easier to navigate. All tools were updated for greater. The catalogue is now 68 tools with 26 additions in this update.

Booking- disclaimers were added to discourage non-registered persons from booking. 

12.0

UI: Tweaks were made to make the site faster, easier to read and better formatted for all screen sizes. The top bar now animates blue to indicate the page a user is on. This enabled the removal of title bars to save space on smaller screens. Slight redesign to the footer to have previews of news items.

Tools: The page was redesigned as there has been a doubling of tools. Formulations were added for schema therapy and CBT treatment models for depression, generalised anxiety, Health anxiety, insomnia, low self-esteem, OCD, Panic disorder, PTSD and social anxiety. New tools for values work, TRAP/TRAC, Interoceptive exposure, paradoxical intention, stimulus discrimination, safe place image, attention experiment, unmet emotional needs, anchoring, the wise mind and the systems of compassion. All tools were released under the Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA license.

Therapy & Clinical supervision: These pages were updated with more information and reformatted for better use of space. They are better formatted on a range of screen sizes. 

11.0

Booking: The booking page was revised to add 2 hour supervisions and remove the external payment links. Clients/ supervisees can either direct pay or can be invoiced by the business banking app. This removes the extra 2.5% fee making it more accessible. 

Tools: Small revisions of all tools and new tools added- Exposure and response prevention, coping strategies and timeline.

Text improvements: Across the site the text was updated for clarity and simplicity of use. 

10.0

Rebase: WordPress has been rebased to Elementor Pro. This should be much faster and have more features than before. This actual site design is a remake of version 9 but will enable further site enhancements in the future.

Tools: Added radical acceptance and fixed bugs with the thought record. 

9.0

Design: Pages are tabbed to make them cleaner and contain more information. All pages were redesigned. Some buttons like site search and social links were removed to speed the site up and improve layout, especially on phones.

Book & pay: The booking system was integrated into the site to make more accessible. Payment was kept as external links to help security.

Tools: These were updated and new tools were added. Renamed to tools as referral documents are moved to the relevant site section.

Depreciation: PWA, site search and dark mode were depreciated as they slowed the site down and had low usage. The site should be faster now.

8.0
Book & Pay: An upgrade to the Progress Store feature. This made the site faster and more reliable.

Site info: this page includes site and regulatory information like cookies.

7.0
Progress Store: a new feature adding booking and payment functions.

Tools: An upgrade made all tools fillable pdfs. They can be printed or typed now with no layout issues.

General enhancements: The site has several performance and layout improvements. Latest News is in the footer bar and there are now smaller social links in the header and footer. The headerbar is better formatted on mobile and for new clients the therapy info section has been updated with a better reading layout and more information (including the therapist profiles).

6.1
Upgrade to documents & tools: these are locally hosted and load faster.

6.0
Theme upgrade: Move to base the theme on Vilva Pro. Better layout, faster, dark mode added.

Performance improvements: Alterations to caching and other backend services to make site load faster.

Depreciation of rfcbt.com linking: The links from the old domain have ended, the domain itself has expired.

5.1
Minor update: Added new therapy tools to the documents page. WordPress update to newest version.

5.0
New feature: Documents & tools. This new feature hosts Progress’ therapy tools online for client use.

4.0
Website transferred to new Progress Psychotherapy domain. Part of transition to new brand identity and retirement of RFCBT trade name. www.rfcbt.com redirects to the new site.

3.0
Rebase to WordPress: The website was completely re-written in the open-source tool WordPress. The site became faster and more customisable. The news feature was added.

2.0
Theme: The site moved to bespoke branding based on the services blue and green colours.

Security: site defaults to HTTPS for better security.

1.0
Initial release: written on hosts web design platform. Featured service information and contact details to self-refer.