As well as joining this thread, I started another with the same post as mine of 20 Jun 13 - 10:10 AM on the fRoots Forum. This comment was added on that board by Richard Butterworth the web programmer of the Full English site:-

The more technically minded might be interested in a couple of things we've added to the new VWML site to help sharing the information on the site. (The less technically minded will probably be bored silly very rapidly.)

On the old site we noticed that the rather unwieldy urls that it generated were being posted onto forums, into emails and so on. So we've generally tried to make the urls the new site creates a bit neater and shorter.

In particular we noticed that the search urls for particular Roud numbers were being shared around. So, firstly there's a new user friendly url which takes you straight to a search for a Roud number...

http://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/XXX (don't click on this link! its just an example)

...where XXX is the Roud number you're after. So if you want to see all the records in the Roud indexes for Roud number 40, you can get to them with...

http://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/40 (do click on this one -- it works)

Secondly, each record in the Full English/Roud indexes/etc has a permanent url. The permanent url for a record is seen by clicking on the orange 'share' button with the three connected circles to the right of each record. So the permanent url for the letter from Henry Burstow that Shirley Collins so movingly talked about at the Full English launch is...

http://www.vwml.org/record/LEB/2/100

Its a much better idea to share these permanent urls than copying and pasting the url for the results of a search. The url for a search contains the information you searched for and which record you're currently looking at. So if you searched for the letter from Henry Burstow, you'll (currently) find that its the 4th item in a search for 'burstow letter' in The Full English. Now if you wanted to share that letter with all your friends (and who wouldn't?) if you sent them the url for the search, they'd get the 4th record in a search for 'burstow letter'. But we might subsequently catalogue some more Burstow letters which means that url will go out of date. The permanent url will always point to the appropriate record.

Here endeth the lesson.

Any comments/feedback about the new site is always welcome...

http://www.vwml.org/vwml-contact-and-visit-us/tell-us-what-you-think