Ok, Simon, I understand that.
To be honest, I only took the offsite reference away because at a committee
meeting there was a discussion that about the fact that the dates for the
last broadcast were still there and many of the posts were out of date,
referring to events gone by.
You were away and very busy at the time so with my limited website skills, I
undertook to attempt to change it and with no access to 'Chryp' I had to
re-create the page 'on-site', as it were.
I have no desire to manage the website because I have enough to do as it is,
so I really don't mind how it is updated.
Whilst I am sure Chyrp works well when the content is managed, I was aware
that there was a lot of old out of date stuff visible on the site (and
probably still is) and in my view it didn't reflect well on us.
The New Rock Track of the week was merely something to keep the front page
fresh and to put across that we were still here and the website was 'loved'.
So how well a facility like Chyrp works is probably not quite as important
as the content it is managing and displaying, and that is down to us.
Sarah
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon H
Sent: Saturday, October 7, 2017 9:05 PM
To: hrock freelists
Subject: [hrock] Chyrp - revisit!
Sorry, I sent this direct rather than though the list. Let's try again.
Chyrp is an application that allows any of us who have an account to
write directly to the home page of the website. Jon provided the
facility and set it up an he and I put the page together that allows it
to appear on our home page.
It was done so I did not have to put up everything myself and you did
not have to wait or rely on me to do so. It means we can all contribute
to the website rather than it all being up to one person. All you need
is a login to the Chyrp server, which can be provided and perhaps a
little help to get going with your first blog. It also requires the
restoration of the page I had there to pick up the Chyrp feed. This last
is very easy as I have it here on my machine. I can simply reload it to
our web server
Obviously when it goes up, everything latterly put on the page by Sarah
will be overwritten. Not a big problem because the same info could be
put up through Chyrp, as a series of blogs.
Let me know if you would like the page restored. If you wish to be a
contributor, you will need to request a user name and password to the
Chyrp server if you do not already have access. As far as I am aware
Tony, Dawn, Jon and obviously myself currently have access to this
facility.
Once it was set up, I used it myself to update news items on the site
rather than editing the home page directly. It works very well.
--
regards,
Simon.
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