Opera, oddly enough, is actually the only browser of the six I use that displays the page correctly for me; the test site worked rather better. EFDSS will announce the new site when it's ready. Presumably there has been no announcement yet because it isn't.

The EFDSS website saga is a long one; thankfully the main site has now been re-designed by Bryan Ledgard, and other peoples' earlier versions are now just embarrassing memories. In addition to the main site and the nearly-ready VWML site, there is an online shop put together by Johnny Adams, a site for the Folk Music Journal put together by me, and one for English Dance and Song (I'm not sure who did that one).

http://www.efdss.org/
http://folkshop.efdss.org/
http://www.fmj.efdss.org/
http://eds.efdss.org/

The visual styles vary rather, as there wasn't much co-ordination in the respective planning stages. The VWML site is actually the oldest surviving design (it's been in beta for quite a while), followed by FMJ, which went live a year ago. I felt obliged, at the time, to reflect at least the better aspects of the then-current EFDSS style. Whether we'll need to adapt a bit more to the new house style I don't yet know.

When the online version of Roud works properly (and it does just seem to be a display issue: there is rather a lot of background scripting, so plenty of opportunities for things to go wrong) a lot of people will find it very useful, and it is an important move forward on which everyone involved should be congratulated. Ignore the "Google search" option for now, though, as it isn't finished and will currently return a couple of million hits for most enquiries.

Anybody who is really serious about the subject, though, would do well to subscribe individually to Steve Roud's folksong and broadside indexes; it's a one-off payment and you get your own copies, updated annually, formatted for various database programs and with all sorts of additional materials. More flexible and faster to use; I've found it absolutely invaluable.

It's the single most important finding aid for traditional song ever produced; that said, it's in the process of revision, with a team of people working on master-titles, a thesaurus of keywords, synopses and so on. That's a mammoth task and will take time, but it will advance traditional song studies incalculably.