[QCWA] QCWA Ch91: our new website now covers the 2006 Christmas Luncheon

[Richard Rucker]

Our new website is posted here:

http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91/

Since it was first announced on 8 December, a number of additions and  
improvements have been made. These are the most notable:

Under RECENT EVENTS:
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Two stories on our recent Christmas luncheon and the fine  
presentation by member Maury Shumaker, W4HYB, on "Amateur Radio on  
the International Space Station (ARISS)" have been added.  A link to  
the photo album for that event is provided.

Under SCHEDULED EVENTS:
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The programs scheduled for January and February 2007 have been added.

Under ARCHIVED EVENTS:
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Links to the stories and photo albums available for all chapter  
events from June 2001 through June 2006 have been added, and all the  
archives now provide a link back to the new website.

Under ODDS-N-ENDS
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A story on our chapter's name-sake, Vic Clark W4KFC, has been added  
and includes an image of his QSL card.

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The following gives you a REVISED guide into the organization of the  
new website and how to find your way around it:

1. The new site has these clickable titles in the menu bar at the top:
         SITE MAP
         SCHEDULED EVENTS
         RECENT EVENTS
         PAST EVENTS
         ARCHIVED EVENTS
         ODDS-N-ENDS
Click on any one, and your browser will take you there directly.

2. Since this menu bar appears on every page, you can jump directly  
from the page you are looking at to almost any other top-level page.  
To see ALL the pages on this site organized in outline format as  
clickable links, click on SITE MAP.

Please note that I eliminated a return button for the HOME PAGE in  
the menu bar to make room for two new top-level pages.  You can  
return to the HOME PAGE by either using the back button (a left- 
pointing arrow) or clicking on it in the SITE MAP.

3. Top-level pages are collections of lower-level pages, and each top- 
level page contains an index with clickable links to these lower  
pages.  Lower-level pages may be either "leaf pages" or "branch  
pages," just like the top-level pages. If the page your browser is  
displaying doesn't contain an index, then it is a leaf page;  
otherwise, it is a branch page.

5. The links to any associated photo albums are imbedded within the  
story on each event.

6. The previous website has been converted to an archives-only site.  
You can go directly to photo albums of events dating back to June  
2001, or to the stories associated with them, by clicking on the  
appropriate link under ARCHIVED EVENTS.

Please let me know how you like the new site and if you have any  
suggestions on how to improve upon it. Try using the feedback window  
on the right-hand-side of the top-level or other pages. I've had  
mixed reports on how well this works, and I would like to fix any  
remaining bugs in it.

73,
Dick Rucker, KM4ML
webmaster
site built with Sandvox 1.1 from Karelia Software

PS:  For those who are curious about the broken URL problem in the  
last update announcement, I have learned more about the use of angle  
brackets, < >, as delimiters to enclose Universal Resource Locators  
(URLs), like this:  <someURL> .

Their use is aimed primarily at human readers of printed materials  
containing URLs, and not at the designers of email software.  The  
argument goes like this: A URL may not contain the following  
characters:  line-feed   carriage-return   space

And yet there is no specified maximum length for a URL.  So when a  
URL is displayed or printed, it may well have to take up more than  
one line of text, thus requiring the insertion of, say, a carriage- 
return character.

Consequently, it is generally up to the human consumers of URLs to  
make sure that any of these forbidden characters are deleted from a  
URL before trying to use it to obtain a valid Internet Protocol (IP)  
address.

Just tapping the Return key before typing a URL of reasonable length  
(say 40 characters) will put it on a line of its own and avoid a lot  
of grief.