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Website Performance

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:30:59 +0000

We track the performance of the website using Google Analytics, This means that we can see how many people visit us, where from, and what content has performed the best. As i know how uncompetitive we are here I thought that it would be fun to show the latest stats since we
started with the new website.

The image below has the details. You may have to save it to your drive to read it. The important ones are “unique page views”.

Spondon Off Road YouTube Channel!

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:48:28 +0000

Hi Guys,

We have created a username on youtube called SpondonOffRoad. We have uploaded the AWDC Heavy Trial Videos to YouTube and they can be viewed at our YouTube channel, SpondonOffRoad If you have any videos that you want uploaded to youtube, then you can get in touch and upload via our channel if you wish.

You are of course still free to create your own content, and embed that within a post using which will place a video into your posts for you.
Have fun watching the Scammell…..

Gallery Tutorial

MarkN — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:19:04 +0000

I have written/produced a quick guide to adding your photos to a post. Hope It’s helpful. Add any comments below

Flash Gallery Tutorial

All Known Members…

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:42:22 +0000

Hi Guys,

all known members have been imported into the website.

If you have not received an email with your username and password, it’s likely that your email address is out of date.

You may need to contact Trevor to update your email address.

If you do not like your username, we can change it to something more to your liking.

A good move would be to change your password so that you can remember it!

If you have not received an email, add a comment with your Full name, membership number and email address below, and we will fix it.

MarkN

Resize Pictures

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:35:28 +0000

if you want to add your pictures to your articles and galleries, its best if they are no larger than 800 x 600 pixels.

To resize pictures for the site, a good program for doing this is BIMPlite.

You can download the program from here, and best of all it’s free.

BIMPlite

Writing an article

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:39:53 +0000

To write an article on the new system is pretty easy.

Once you have logged in, from the link on the right hand side…

the system presents a dashboard to you, you need to go to write post.

From this page, you can now write out the article,

and use the upload manager to add any files or images that you want to. Click upload, choose your file, then hit upload again. Adding some titles and descriptions to the pictures that you upload is a good idea too.

The best size for pictures on the site is 800×600 pixels. (the width should be a max of 800 pixels). This means that we wont top up the site with pictures, and that they will load quickly into the page.

A good free program for image manipulation is GIMP 2 along with Davids Batch processor for processing many pictures at once.

Once the article has been written, choose a category from the right hand side, and then hit publish.

Website

MarkN — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:14:53 +0000

As you can probably see if you are reading this, the website has undergone a radical change. This should not effect the operation of it. The aim of the change is to enable members to write articles and post galleries in an easier fashion. The forum has been left alone for the time being and is still available, from a link on the sidebar (orange bit on the side).

Guys, at this point I have to say that this is our club and our site, which means that we are all responsible for making it better. This can be done by many different means. Every article written here will be read by the search engines, such as google and yahoo. The more good content is included in these pages will mean more visitors to the site. More visitors,will ultimately lead to more members, which can only improve the quality of our club and the sites which we can afford to visit.

Please leave a comment below, on anything you have found which is not quite right, and we will try and rectify the problem as soon as possible. Hoping that you like the new look,

Mark