This Village Website has now passed through the first major stage of construction. A request for help was advertised in the Village News during Summer 2005, and a team of relatively experienced website designers has met and continues to communicate in order to build it.
Now that the skeleton of the site exists, along with its static (unchanging) content, we need you to contribute, particularly if you are a Village Organisation.
We continue to welcome your feedback, especially if you find inaccurate or outdated information on the site.
The previously database-driven components of the website are being altered so that they are either static HTML or simple PHP scripts. This is to avoid the need for ongoing maintenance of a system which was largely obselete (most features were never used).
The News will continue to be available online as downloadable files.
We still welcome content from individual organisations, but we will now need to convert this into HTML for you. Please get in touch with a member of the team (see contact) and we will try to help.
We are keen that Village Organisations and Businesses should have a presence on the site. If you are an Organisation and want a link to your own site or help with uploading and changing your own pages, please get in touch with us. Businesses and Services should also get in touch as listed on the contact page.
Another promising feature of this site is the 'Photo Galleries' page. We will probably accumulate some general/historical photos, but would welcome any you have of village events.
This information is now listed, along with an online feedback form, on the contact page.
All your comments are welcome at this stage - nothing is set in concrete, and we would like to know if we have missed something out!
The Website Team currently consists of the following people: Maurice Roper, Maurice Whittaker, Jennifer Hirsh, Peter Brunning, Jonathan Darrell, Ian Grant, Thomas Mynors (for technical support).
Between us we have quite a wealth of expertise and experience, and we hope it can be put to good use!
We are keen that this website should be accessible to everyone. The standard colour scheme has been chosen with this in mind, and you can change the text size in your own web browser (instructions on how to do this in Internet Explorer are below). However, please do let us know if you find any pages hard to read, whether it be because of the layout, colours or anything else.
The two W3C icons below indicate that this site aims to meet interoperability standards, and it should view almost identically in all common web browsers.
Most of the static content of this site is standard HTML pages, a lot written in Notepad and some in commercial editors by different team members.
The Organisations lists, content and forwarders were all database-driven, but these parts of the website are no longer in the same form and the database system being phased out (see top).
The photo galleries and News pages use PHP scripts to organise their content.
Changing font size in Internet Explorer: