The village Internet site was founded in January 2000 by Alan & Heather Huddleston, Tony Bane, and Fiona Ellis (representing the Tail Corn magazine). A blue colour scheme was adopted since this is the colour associated with the Eversdens .... coming from the days when each village had its own coloured Corn trailers.
Why was the Site created?
- To encourage communication within the village
- Villages local to Eversden already have an Internet presence
- That the founders might meet more people in the village
- To learn more about the production of an Internet site
- Since many people in the village have an Internet connection, it seemed logical to provide an on-line village service
- To promote and support village activities
- Seemed a reasonable excuse for opening a bottle of wine on a regular occasion to discuss progress of the site!
Services
- On-line village notice board
- Enable local clubs and organisations to get a free internet presence to promote membership and also enable residents to easily find out what activities they can join
- List local businesses
- The administrators would be prepared to discuss other services helpful to the community
Contact Information
- Web site: www.The-Eversdens.co.uk
- Email: Editor@The-Eversdens.co.uk
- Guest Book
Technical Information and Assumptions
- It is envisaged that the bulk of our audience will be using modem access to this site
- The KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!) principle has been applied to this site, this allows the site to be easily managed, quick to use whilst providing a comprehensive set of services
- This means ...
- Economical use of graphics - just enough to make the pages look attractive without causing huge download times (slow pages)
- Pages containing extensive graphics will contain warnings on pages that link to them
- Simple colour schemes rather than graphical backgrounds
- Every web site must be kept at a 'host site'. There are many hosts who offer many different levels of service at different costs.
- We have elected to use a host offering free services, many of which require us to show promotional advertising. We try to select those services that are free and with little or no advertising requirement.
- Thank you to all service providers that enable us to run this site at zero cost
- We have purchased (our only cost to date!) our own domain name 'The-Eversdens.co.uk' and have set this up in a way that will allow us to change service providers if we need to without the need to change web or email addresses.
- This flexibility has been provided to allow freedom in choice of host and also to allow administrators to change with the minimum of fuss.
- All members of the administration team provide their time free of charge.
By 2005
- The site had grown enormously
- Broadband had become much more widespread
- Many more people had taken the internet into their homes
- The founders were finding it increasingly difficult to give the site the time it needed
In May 2005 David Farnell with some trepidation accepted the invitation to redesign the site. He has retained almost all the original material and links and introduced new material as appropriate.
His intention was to arrange the enormous amount of excellent material into logical order and make it clearly accessible. He also set out to give the site the character of a glossy magazine. It was to have a topical flavour and yet be a fascinating archive of recent village life. Additionally, it should be a useful local reference and an easy portal to the world-wide web.
In the month of December 2006 the site received over 1000 visitors. (See "10,000 visitors!")
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