About the Site
Webmaster.
This site was prepared by Bruce Barbour.
Last updated June 2019.
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Disclaimer
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information for this site are not liable to users of this
web site for any loss or damage however caused resulting
from use of the web site or the use of or reliance on the
information contained therein.
Provision of a link from this web site to an external
site does not imply a recommendation for or an endorsement
of the contents and / or accuracy of the external site, or
any products or services that may be advertised on, or
provided by, those sites.
Site Preparation
The site was initially prepared using AOLpress plus some
additional HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) programming.
AOLpress was a simple WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) page editor - which is no longer available. (WYSIWYG
page editors are an easy way to start a site however as
you gain more experience they can become limiting and some
of them are annoying in that they can change your HTML
without even telling you or the HTML they write can be
very messy. Another option for creating website is the use
of a content management system and/or blog management
program such as Wordpress
- there are many others, a lot of them free to use.)
This site has subsequently been updated using 1st Page 2000# with
style sheets edited in Topstyle Lite#.
Both these programs are excellent. They use to be
available free over the internet. (I note 1st Page charge
for their most recent version). Alternatively you could
try a program called "Alleycode#"
which seems similar to 1st Page and a quite reasonable
HTML editor. If you are really hardline you can write and
edit pages in Notepad. Recently, because content is more
important than style, I have gone back to using NVu and
then later SeaMonkey#
Composer (which is the same as NVu) which seems fine when
used with style sheets from Topstyle Lite. However even
with a WYSIWYG editor like NVu / SeaMonkey it is
desireable to be able to tweak the HTML in the
<HTML> Source view pane either to clean up the code
or for when NVu / SeaMonkey doesn't behave exactly as you
want it to - so please learn some basic HTML.
If any Strathmore resident (or group) has any good ideas
for a website but don't know how to start, please contact
me. It's not difficult to set up a simple web site (this
was my first site) and your Internet Service Provider
(ISP) may provide you with an amount of disk space on the
ISP's server included with your internet service provider
account (please refer to your ISP for further
information). Alternatively domain names and hosting is
relative cheap these days from many different web hosts.
If any Strathmore resident, former resident or other
interested party wishes to have input into the design
and/or content of this site please contact me and let me
know your ideas.
Site Philosophy.
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Site History
This site was launched onto the World Wide Web on the
26th of January 1999. It was originally hosted by Vicnet.
A major revamp of the website was undertaken during 2013,
changing the look and feel of the site (with minor
modifications to content). The site was relaunched at the
current domain name - www.strathmore3041.org
in April 2014.
The site is hosted by NetVirtue
commencing in 2013.
Sponsorship
I would be pleased to consider proposals for sponsorship.
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