We're very much involved at the high-tech end of internet programming and web site development and training. But it's really good for me good to see the other end of the spectrum, from time to time, and an hour's seminar at Chippenham Library last night, run by the local community web team, was an ideal opportunity. And always being one to make double and treble re-use of time, it's also a chance for me to see the background of how we should be putting our own community pages together ;-) - Community page for Save the Train

It comes as a useful reminder to me ... when putting HTML / pages together to tell people ...
• that an <h1> tag is a big headline and an <h6> is small, not the other way
• that color is spelt WITHOUT a u (groans when our presenter said "must spell it the American way")
• that once you've uploaded an image to your web site, you can turn your computer off and even disconnect as people don't have to get it from you each time
• that the <font> tag is deprecated.

I'm also reminded
• that you can put a W3C logo on a site even if the pages are not W3C compliant
• that even community lead, local authority sponsored web sites don't necessarily conform to the DDA act or the laws on having mailing lists that offer users an unsubscribe option
• that every site with a login for "Joe Public" needs a forgotten password script
• that projectors should be adjusted (angle and keystone and focus) before a presentation.
• that people want to be able to upload pictures, video clips, and soundtracks.

Actually, our presenter did a good job of showing us around the Wiltshire Community Web site as potential content providers.
(written 2007-11-13)

 A213 - Web Application Deployment - Commercial and Legal Aspects
  [3168] Web Sites - Subject to Advertising Standards from 1st March - check your sites - (2011-02-13)
  [3104] Catering in Syracuse, the Saigon Cafe, stolen images and Christmas - (2010-12-25)
  [3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
  [2686] Freedom of Information - consideration for web site designers - (2010-03-20)
  [2592] Re-using our pictures - (2010-01-21)
  [2252] Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters - (2009-06-20)
  [2140] Beware - giving copyright away when you upload a picture - Dogs Trust - (2009-04-25)
  [1937] Getting hold of the wrong end of the stick - (2008-12-12)
  [1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers - (2008-10-14)
  [1747] Who is watching you? - (2008-08-10)
  [1506] Ongoing Image Copyright Issues, PHP and MySQL solutions - (2008-01-14)
  [1486] Does anyone understand Lithuanian? - (2007-12-27)
  [1485] Copyright and theft of images, bandwidth and members. - (2007-12-26)
  [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
  [994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-17)
  [876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
  [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
  [759] Watch your Google profile - (2006-06-13)
  [746] Domain Listing Center and Domain Registry of America - (2006-06-06)
  [532] Copyright - how much can I legally copy? - (2005-12-17)
  [322] More maps - (2005-05-23)
  [320] Ordnance Survey - using a 'Get a map' - (2005-05-22)
  [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
  [259] Responding to spam - (2005-03-27)
  [142] Colour for access - (2004-12-06)

W501 - Introduction to Web Site Structure
  [2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise? - (2009-12-26)
  [2282] Checking robots.txt from Python - (2009-07-12)
  [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01)
  [2094] If you have a spelling mistake in your URL / page name - (2009-03-21)
  [1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen. - (2009-01-01)
  [1686] FTP - how not to corrupt data (binary v ascii) - (2008-06-24)
  [1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing - (2008-05-08)
  [1198] From Web to Web 2 - (2007-05-21)
  [1176] A pu that got me into trouble - (2007-05-04)
  [1168] Moving out some of the web site bloat - (2007-04-29)
  [1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages? - (2007-01-13)
  [1024] Web site - a refresh to improve navigation - (2007-01-07)
  [528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls - (2005-12-14)
  [332] Looking up IP addresses - (2005-06-01)

W502 - Web and Intranet - HTML Document Anatomy
  [3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (2011-12-26)
  [3517] Tags used in writing this blog - (2011-11-12)
  [2675] Redirecting to your main domain for correct security keys - (2010-03-13)
  [2246] What difference does using the XHTML standard really make? - (2009-06-18)
  [1811] Alternative URLs using % symbol encoding - (2008-09-27)
  [1463] All the special characters in HTML ... - (2007-12-07)
  [1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) - (2007-05-14)
  [1160] HTML - example of a simple web page - (2007-04-24)
  [993] Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-16)
  [857] Strikingly busy - (2006-09-06)

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