I am delighted to announce the arrival of the new
CPS website at www.chesterphotographicsociety.org
Den Fawcett did a sterling job of setting up the
original CPS website and subsequently updating it on a regular basis for many
years and when Den stepped down at the end of the last season John Dernie
approached me and asked me to take over the running of the site. I had already
agreed with Den that a facelift was in order and the new site is the result of
that process.
In addition to all the previous information that
was on the old site we also now have...
- A new Home page with a summary of all
events coming up, giving you a one-stop shop for everything that's going
on.
- A new seasonal exhibition gallery, currently
showing a new summer
2010 exhibition with recent photos from our members.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed images to that. A
new exhibition will appear in the Autumn and we would welcome any images for
that if you would like to exhibit your images online.
- A new Membership
services section with details of the printer profiler, monitor calibration
and sensor scope services on offer.
- A new Presidents page for Norman
Riley.
- A new Committee page to introduce the committee for the current season and put faces to
names.
- A new Competition
judging dates page with the Judges booked for the event.
- A re-vamped Gallery section with new photo viewer putting each image
center stage with a larger area available, which will be utilised for all new
images.
- A re-vamped Competition
hand-in dates page
- A re-vamped Venue
information to aid visitors to our meetings
The programme
of events (syllabus) will now update itself to show the next meeting and
full details at the top of the page and any remaining meetings following that
and will match the content of your membership booklet. Past events will be
viewable only via a separate page and may be of interest to visitors who are
interested in joining the society and want to see what a typical season
involves.
The Current
News page will now automatically show stories from the previous 3 months and
move any stories older than that to the News
Archive page.
In general the site is much easier to update now
and we would welcome any ideas you may have about content that would be useful
to members or visitors to the site in general with a view to consideration for
future additions to the site.
I would also like to thank Ian Copley for his
assistance in providing testing for the site, to ensure a problem free
experience for you. Many thanks also go to a very understanding wife, Kim, who
has been very supportive and patient during the process.
I hope you enjoy the new site and that it becomes a
more useful resource for us all for the future.
Rob Lewis
Webmaster