The Welney Website
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page created Dec 2004, amended/updated Saturday, 11 July 2009
PRIVACY and DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Personal details
Personal names may be used in text or shown as captions to photos.
Other details received or obtained are kept and used only to enable communication from the webmaster (see CONTACT below).
Other details will NOT be passed to third parties or published without permission.
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MANAGEMENT & OWNERSHIP
The site is maintained by the Webmaster (see CONTACT below) with occasional contributions from a small group of supporters.
The domain 'registrant' was changed in April 2009 to "The Welney Website" at the address of the webmaster (as bottom of page). In effect it is 'privately owned' (as are the vast majority of sites, although that is very rarely made clear). The use of an impersonal name for the registrant will enable future transfers of 'ownership' & management to be completed simply and without cost, in line with the webmaster's aims shown below.
WEBMASTER'S AIMS
to provide an all-inclusive website for the community of Welney and surrounding area.
to keep running costs to the lowest amount possible by sourcing free services and software as much as possible.
to encourage participation and contributions from individuals and organisations.
to provide information on present day life for visitors and residents past, present and potential
to maintain and increase historical archives freely available to everyone at all times
to provide links to other sites providing related material
to provide a forum for residents views. Free-speech is encouraged, but obscene or racist material will not be published.
to expand the site's management and to create an organisation or society open to ordinary residents and friends of Welney.
COPYRIGHT
All text, images, design and layout (including drawings and photos) are © welney.org.uk (this website), the webmaster, the Welney Parish Council or the original source (which will be acknowledged where known).
Copies can be made for personal use only.
No material on this site can be included in any other website or publication or used for public display without written permission from the webmaster or the original source.
HISTORY & FUNDING
24th December 1999. Created by the Welney Millennium Arts Project (WMAP) team and funded by them until 2004. Webmaster: Ian Warrington.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2002. New webmaster: Mark Farrow.
mid November 2004. Site dormant, webmaster unable to commit sufficient time in Welney to maintain the site.
14th November 2004. New webmaster: Peter Cox.
15th November 2004. Treasurer of WMAP declined financial assistance to re-start site owing to "insufficient funds".
17th November 2004. Site re-activated with private finance.
16th February 2005. Welney Parish Council joined the site for a 3 month trial with their own sub-site designed & maintained free by the Webmaster.
1st May 2005. The website host service terms changed from a 'p.a.y.g.' account (no annual fee, dial-up charges at cost) to a 'justmail' account (annual fee £20 but no call costs).
29th June 2005. Welney Parish Council renewed agreement for further 6 months & donated £20 to webmaster's costs.
12th December 2005. Welney Parish Council renewed agreement for further 6 months & donated £25 to webmaster's costs.
14th June 2006. Welney Parish Council decided not to renew agreement. (In Sept 2006 the Parish Council launched its own site. The sub-site on this web was then removed)
In Aug 2006 a six-person management team was formed to run and oversee the site. One proposed aim was to promote greater use of IT within the community by distribution of second-hand computer equipment to poor and elderly residents. Unfortunately our application for funding was turned down because a grant for (new) IT equipment had already been made to an organisation within the Parish (the Parish Council, for their history committee) and another grant within the same Parish was deemed inappropriate. Is does seem rather unfair that a small amount of money given to us would have benefited many who are unable to afford computers, whereas the large grant to the Parish Council has benefited only one or two families who can well afford to provide their own. As a result of the failure, at our first attempt, two key members withdrew, and the team disbanded. Since then the site has been managed by the webmaster with encouragement and occasional contributions from several website supporters.
TECHNICAL STUFF
The site is managed on the Webmaster's personal PC (home-built in 2004) running on MS Windows XP Pro. Viewing is therefore optimised when using MS Internet Explorer (IE6 or IE7), with text size set to one of the smaller options. The Webmaster checks pages using the latest versions of three other popular browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari, in an to attempt to ensure that display on those systems will be broadly similar to IE. Checks are also made on the webmaster's Linux (Ubuntu) based computer (also home built) using Mozilla 3 & Opera browsers, and results are very good - and ALL the software is free!
Non-Microsoft browsers do not always recognise all the webpage formatting. Some may display page layout, fonts, colours and borders differently. Mozilla is the nearest to MS IE. Opera displays borders incorrectly and also shows those that should be hidden. Safari uses a different fonts & styles. Display can also be affected by the user's computer settings and personal settings. Some features may not work as intended on older computers or software, e.g. the bullets on this page which ought to be on the left but which some early Firefox versions displays on the right. (Bullets have been removed from the contents page because of that). Other features do not work at all on Firefox or Safari such as the sound of swans hooting when the home page is opened. If you know how to rectify such problems, please, please, get in touch! .
Web pages are in HTML code, designed using MS FrontPage 2002, but Parish Council minutes prior to 2008 are MS Word documents.
A few special pages may be in "PDF" format which requires 'Adobe reader' software to view them. It is available free from www.adobe.com
As the site is privately funded, other software used is limited to that which can be obtained free - often cut-down versions of retail packages. That can impose restrictions on design, layout, functionality and content.
- www.statcounter.com but still provides a variety of statistics.
The visitor counter on the home page (added in Dec 2005) is a free version from
- www.crawl-it.com. The site is re-indexed monthly, or on demand.
The site search facility (added in June 2006) is a free version from
Pages and documents are uploaded to the host's server using 'Filezilla', a free 'FTP' program. (Prior to 2009 'Coffee-Cup' FTP was used) via an Orange (Wanadoo) broadband internet connection provided free by the webmaster.
- www.madasafish.com who took over the original host 'Freenetname' in Aug 2006.
The website "host", or "ISP" is
The web space provided by the host is 100mb (increased from 20mb on 19th April 2005).
The host uses a "UNIX" server (as do most ISP/hosts), which unfortunately does not support MS FrontPage 'extensions'. That means some pages or features do not work correctly (e.g. Photo galleries) or at all (e.g. the Guestbook).
CONTACT
e-mail webmaster. or write to: Peter Cox, the Welney Webmaster, c/o White Hall Farmhouse, Welney, Norfolk, PE14 9SF.