TIPS ON USING OUR WEB SITE

Event Reporting

Its very little good writing a report about one of your events and just sending it to the Secretary. He has no way to distribute it. If it is of interest to others then let's put in on the web site for all to see. As Webmaster I am quite happy to 'fly' your reports on the site but there are a few basic ground rules to be observed.

(a) It must be submitted in electronic form. Typing from handwritten manuscript is not a task I can take on. The text can be in the body of an email or alternatively put in a Word document with a .doc suffix. If you are lucky enough to have the latest word software which saves as .docx please use the option to save as .doc Dont worry about fancy formatting. Most of it is lost when I put it into a web page

(b) Pictures always make the report more interesting and I am quite happy to include any interesting pictures. However please do not go mad with your modern 10 Megapixel camera. The web cannot use the massive resolution that the modern camera can give and the file size they produce quite often is not accepted by email providers. . Most photographic software has a facility for reducing picture size and 400 pixels wide is quite adequate for the web.When reducing size remember to click on the maintain aspect ratio box or you may get a squashed picture. Most of the present pictures on our site are less than 100k. Picture files with the prefix .,jpg are preferred. Please do not embed pictures in a word document. Always send separately

If you have any problems about submitting a report you can always talk to me on 01273 728204

Bill Arliss Webmaster

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