Latest News
Jan 2010
A new set of (2009)photos has been added to the Flickr album.
A proposal for visiting Aden in 2011 has been added to the Members' Index.
Dec 2009
OK Members Forum amended so that submission entry form appears within the
forum. This should make it more convenient to refer to a previous entry
whilst composing a new one.
A new forum page added for members to discuss memories of their teachers.
Also using form in forum arrangement.
An indication of how many members have responded to the latest batch of
newsletters is now available.
All these are reserved for use of members only.
Splitting this 'Latest News' section into clearer sections is of course
available to all users.
Late Nov 2009
Following facilities are already 'live' and have been advised in
a members' newsletter.
Extended Index entries:-
The 'old' way of reaching members index has been
renamed to Members Index (Gateway) and a new entry MembIndx(NoHlp) added
below it for people who won't be surprised by the login box
A Help(FAQ) page has been added to public index
A Forum Entry Page has been added to Members' Index
(as has a corresponding Forum reading page of course)
I've also copied all the content of the 'We Loved Aden' feature from the BT
website into a new slot here. Currently accessible only by members but if
the respective authors all agree I'll move it to a public page.
If you want to read newsletters on-line, you'll now open the page for them
at a point that displays the links to the last few sent rather than to
the very start - although you can of course still scroll up to find older ones.
Mid Nov 2009
Procedure for reaching members index has been clarified by extending the
comments on the gateway page. Also additional help pages provided for
reference
Password reminders by email now available
Newsletter(s !!) sent out explaining this
NL39 onwards incorporated a 'Reply Link'
By end of Nov, 130 OKs had confirmed receipt of automated emails. That's still
less than half - really not sure if other half are 'lost' or just slow to
read emails. Future newsletters will continue the reminder process !
Early Nov 2009
Apologies to all those people who must have thought
that their webmaster had given up on this project.
The website that was launched in Feb 2008 was built from a template
and adding new facilities to that (rather complicated) template was somewhat harder
than I ever imagined it would be.
After 18 months of thinking about it, we now have a new basic skeleton
which is actually much simpler although paradoxically it should now be
easier to implement any more advanced features
With the new framework in place, it should be rather more straightforward to
port across the additional material from the old site and to add new features
when required.
If you have any comments to make about the new look or suggestions for
additional features, please contact webmaster at the email address below.
One of the new features will be a web based email to all members facility.
This alas has a known bug in that many ISPs will detect that such emails have
been automatically rejected so will leap to the (erroneous !) conclusion
that they must be 'spam'. To ensure that future copies of
newsletters etc actually reach you, please try and visit your ISP's
webmail site and identify the webmaster address shown above as 'safe'.