Create your own TableArea Website

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Create your own Table/Area Website!

• Presented by
• Will Ingleby
• IPC Area 14
• Webmaster Award Winning www.Area14.co.uk

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Introduction

• Website building for people with better things to
  do
• The Presidents vision
• Sharing responsibility
• Instant satisfaction and long-term contentment!

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This is what well do

• 1. Area and Table Webs - overview
• A few comments on whats good and whats not so
  good in Table web world
• 2. RTBIweb
• A great web solution for Tablers
• Simple demonstration of RTBIweb in action
• 3. Hands on Build your own website
• Playtime!

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Why bother?

• Bridging the communication gap between Tables
  (Area site) or members (Table site)?
• Easily disseminating information (although not a
  total substitute for personal contact)?
• Reducing communication costs?
• Planning tool (date clash avoidance)?
• Serving as a new membership support tool?
• Including the excluded?
• most importantly, SET SOME OBJECTIVES!

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Give good web!

• Critical Mass Get people to USE the site,
  otherwise is it really worth the effort?
• Content  Anything (and ONLY things) that people
  will find interesting, useful or fun (be brutal
  its not like taking wine!)
• Audience orientation Design for your audience
  and not for yourself.
• Update regularly Keep it real man!
• Keep it simple Expect the worst of people!
• Share the load Dont take it all on yourself.
• Build an email database Send links not flyers.

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Area Websitesgreat for ideas and tips
Area 23 Severn Vale Area 25 Thames Valley Area
26 Thames South East Area 30 Lincolnshire Area
32 Yorkshire Dales Area 33 Essex Area 34 Ribble
and Lune Area 36 Wirral, NE Wales Area 38
Argyll Area 39 South East Scotland Area 41
South Anglia Area 43 Dyfed Area 45 Midland
Shires Area 46 Greater Manchester Area 48
Dorset and Guernsey Area 49 Strathtay and Fife
Area 51 Central Scotland Area 54 London
Chilterns

• London (Round Table Ladies Circle)
• Area 1 Wessex Wight and Jersey
• Area 2 Sussex
• Area 3 Surrey and North Hampshire
• Area 4 Cambria
• Area 5 West Midlands
• Area 6 Founders Area
• Area 7 South East Pennine
• Area 8 Lancs and Manx
• Area 9 West Riding
• Area 12 North Wessex
• Area 13 North Scotland
• Area 14 East Midlands
• Area 16 Kent
• Area 17 London North East
• Area 18 London and Surrey
• Area 20 Northumbria
• Area 22 Cheshire the NW Mids

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2 RTBIweb

• What is a Content Management site?
• What skills will I need to build and maintain my
  website?
• How does RTBIweb work, who will set it up?
• What about email
• How much will it cost?

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Content management

• Simple and easy website updates through a browser
• No web development skills required. If you can
  drive MS Word, you can drive this!
• Just logon to your control panel, enter a
  password and start editing
• Upload pictures, flyers, spreadsheets, PDFs,
  whatever you want
• Link to other websites

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HTML WYSIWYG (what?)

• WYSIWYG editor
• Welcome to Round Table!
• Isn't it about time that you found yourself
  another release valve and discovered some new
  exciting ways of having fun? Everything we do in
  Round Table places this objective at its core! 

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sans serif" size4gtWelcome to Round
Table!lt/FONTgtlt/Bgtlt/PgtltP alignleftgtltFONT
face"Arial, Helvetica, sans serif" size3gtIsn't
it about time that you found yourself another
release valve and discovered some new amp
exciting ways of having fun? Everything we do in
Round Table places this objective at its
core!nbsplt/FONTgt
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How does it work then?

• Simple form to register domain name
• All domain name registration, initial setup (with
  header graphic), publication to the internet and
  hosting is done for you
• Choose email forwarding addresses (or even your
  own managed POP3 mailboxes)
• Domain name 5 for 2 years (in most cases), 25
  one-time licence. FREE hosting (courtesy of RTBI)

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3. BYO (playtime!)

• Have a go at building your own site. Play
• around add some pages, upload some text
• and some images. Be bold and brave.
• Be a webmaster you know you want to!
• Impress your Table mates - If you like what
  youve
• created, register today and your Table website
  can
• be up and running on the Internet within 48 hours!

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Summary

• Define a clear purpose for your website and be
  true to it (interesting, useful, fun?)
• Keep it real. Fresh content regularly there is
  no excuse!
• Dont do it all yourself spread the load.
• Communicate by web (rather than by attachment),
  but dont ignore the need for personal contact
• Try not to turn into a nerd.

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Assessment Evaluation

• If you think this web opportunity is good for
  Table, please pass the message on to clubs and
  Tablers in your Area, and give them an
  opportunity to be nerds as well.
• This presentation (with accompanying notes), the
  registration form and further details may be
  found at www.RTBIweb.co.uk