This community
The Senni Community Web site has been planned to be set up in the following way by a
'Webmaster', who will organize and publish material to the website.
(1) A small front page: website overview; a link to the Index page; a word
search function; one or two pictures; a copyright statement; a commercial use
statement;
(2) An Index page listing and linked to all the Chapter headings and subheadings
for easy navigation
(2) An Overview page about the website: its background and purposes;
disclaimers; terms of use; privacy and cookies policy; list of financial
sponsors; names of those working on the website and how to contact them
(3) A Table of contents page, linking to specific information pages (the meat of
the website) laid out as Chapters leading from general information to separate
pages with specific information in Subheadings pages
(4) An online message board could be setup if there was enough interest
(5) There will be separate English and Welsh versions of each page that contains
text. These will be linked to each other and be present in the same directory in
the web. The pages will be given an English or Welsh name, depending on how it
was first submitted, with the suffix _C.html for Welsh (Cymraeg) submissions or
_E.html for Engish submissions to distinguish them. If there is no translation
available, the page will not exist. This will make it easier to check which ones
have still to be translated. Pages without text will not be duplicated.
(6) A page could have links to other community-based websites
(7) The web could request usernames and passwords to access some or the entire
web. When logged in, users could be asked for new contributions to add currency
to the web.
(8) Statistics could be collected by the ISP on how the web is used. This costs
somewhat more.
Each page could be have, in Welsh or English
(a) a top panel showing the name of the web; the title of the Chapter; the title
of the subsection; a relevant background graphic image; a link to the other
language version of the page
(b) a bottom panel with links to the previous and next pages, the front page and
the Index page
(c) a left panel with links to pages related to the current page; a relevant
background graphic image
The main part of the page would be text or images, containing the page content
and identifying the author and date it was updated
The web should have, in the computers where it is being managed and served out,
a directory and file structure corresponding to the Chapters and Subheadings
listed on the Index page. Graphics and other non-text items are stored in the
directory of the principal page that links to them. to make it easier to manage
them. Non-text pages that are linked from several pages are stored in either the
main directory referring to them, or if many are involved, in the highest
directory where a page refers to them.
The web should be created and updated with a popular and well-structured
commercial web-creation package that will allow selected people to update parts
of the web that interest them. I suggest Microsoft FrontPage 2002 or Dreamweaver
MX 2004 v 7. A database will be needed as soon as the web begins to grow and
become interactive. For this, I suggest Cardbox Server* or Microsoft Access
2002. The scripting language could be PHP and/or JavaScript and use XML and
HTML.
The web should be hosted on a reliable and fast server.
Backups and 'snapshots' of the web should be made as it develops, stored on CD-R
and DVD-R disks kept in at least two well-separated locations.
Graphics files should have a size of no more than 500 pixels in the longer
direction, in 250 colours, to ensure that they are less than 300-KB, otherwise
they take up too much space on the server and are slow to download. However,
full-sized copies of the graphics files will be kept in an Adobe 'Album' v 2 database, as these may be needed for Archive purposes.
*The Webmaster has made a Cardbox database of all the pages in the web, with
fields corresponding to Chapters and subsections. Material for the website will
go first into web page(s) which will then be listed in this database. Edited
pages will be published by FrontPage 2002 to 'senni.org.uk' on the
servers at IX Web Hosting. At some stage, the database could be put online with graphics files, if
this was needed as an 'Archive' of the pictures in the web.
YACS is software designed for a Community web. The Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand has a well structured 'Community Net' in two languages.
Other communities:
- Ystradfellte, the ancient village to the South of the Senni Valley which is linked by communications and family connections.
- Cymru ar y We, links to Welsh web portals that may be of interest to students of Welsh.
- YACS is software designed for a Community web. The Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand has a well structured 'Community Net' in two languages.