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Now Mr Galvin has accepted an invitation from the Bish dot net team to write his own web log on the site. You can read his thoughts here.
]]>Now the City of York Bishopthorpe Ward Committee has made a grant of £500 towards the costs of promoting the site and upgrading its software. This grant is being managed by the Trust.
A small team of local people has been meeting to consider the next steps. One objective is to ensure that as many as possible local businesses are included in the Purple Pages directory. Residents will be able to shop locally, and visitors, who use the site to check on what's on, cn find out what and when is on offer.
Community groups can also have entries on the Purple Pages directory. The Bowling Club is a recent addition with its exemplary entry; all groups are encouraged to get on the site and ensure that they get the publicity they deserve.
]]>The first is the creation of a new News and Views site (that you are reading now), which also has a new look and feel, and is a little easier to navigate.
Fronting the web site is a new home page that welcomes you to the overall site. This is located at the internet address where you have been used to reading the latest news.
This means that you will need an extra click to reach the news and views page (unless you bookmark it and go straight to it). To offset this disadvantage, the new home page however will draw your attention to new features that are planned, and will allow facilities that the software used for the news, transport or Parish Council pages makes less easy to provide.
We hope you like the new layouts as they develop.
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Happy New Year to all its Readers!
]]>Anyone can have information on the site. Clubs and groups can have details of their latest activities. The Local History Group for example has its own section. The web site also allows you to have a local email address (@bishopthorpe.net) that you can access anywhere on the web. It is free, and free of advertising.
The site is regularly read by local people, and also by friends and relatives outside the village. Visitors also use it to try to find out about local information.To extend the scope and usefulness of the site, local organisations are invited to send in their news and we can put this up on the site at any time. To do this just send an email to mailstuff at bishopthorpe dot net, or post a disk to Mailman, 29 Lang Road. Digital photos are always welcome. If you have a web site, let us know so we can put a link to that too.
We are also developing the Purple Pages. It has two new sections: A Business Section - if you want to advertise your business, and a Local Directory of organisations. Please drop us a line as above if you want to be included. You can download forms to fill in to get an entry:
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]]>It contains in the first instance the same information from its practice leaflet, and is available online here.
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A new section of this web site has been created to bring you up to date information and news and other stuff about this much talked about event.
Just click on the link on the Links section to the right.
You can post comments on the Ascot pages, and if you want to contribute something new - what's all the fuss about? - just email us.
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