Histon and Impington OnLine

How Do I Read Histon and Impington OnLine?

When you start reading Histon and Impington OnLine (news section) you are shown the six most recent articles. Each article has a headline followed by the text. If the article is long then just the first paragraph is displayed followed by the hyperlink "More..." and you click that to see the rest of the article.

You can read older articles by clicking the hyperlink "[Older articles]" at the top of bottom of the page, and go back to newer articles by clicking on the "[Newer articles]" hyperlink.

Acknowledgements

This site is a joint development of a small team of residents from Histon and Impington. Members of the team have included: Alan Cornell, Trevor Lee, Denis Payne, Eleanor Whitehead, Angela Young.

Other sources of information include the St Andrew's Yearbook and the Internet.

Thanks also go to Paul Oldham for the technology that runs this site - Opus. See below.

Legal Caveats

It is not the intent of the publishers of this site, in any way or form, to publish material that is incorrect or in any way defamatory of individuals or organisations. They make every effort to maintain the accuracy of the information on this web site, but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage which may occur from use of the information.

However, they are unable to commit to the correctness or appropriateness of the material delivered to the desktop of the remote reader, particularly for the information contained in other sites where we provide a link. The inclusion of a link does not imply any endorsement of the service or products of the linked site.

Should any item or material on the site appear to be incorrect or likely to cause offence, the publishers offer apologies and will use best endeavours to both correct errors and remove offensive material as soon as practicable.

Please inform the webmaster by , phone or fax +44 (0) 1223 233577 of any material that requires attention.

Copyright

All material in the Millennium pages are copyright © Histon & Impington Millennium Committee 1999 - 2000. Photographs on the site are copyright © Denis Payne 1999 - 2001 and © Veronica Millard 2000, unless otherwise stated.

Copyright on maps is explicitly stated.

Presentation, and all other content, is copyright © Histon and Impington Parish Councils 1997-2003. All rights reserved.

Please ask before using any material from the site. Permission is usually granted for non-commercial use. Commercial use of this material may only be made with the express, prior, written permission of the Parish Councils.

Policy

The policy and intent of this site is to:

• publish only that information that is in the public domain
• publish only material which may be freely read by all age groups
• not breach any established guidelines re content
• provide information that is unbiased and of value and use to the local community, and to the world wide community
• present, where bias is unavoidable, the views of the Parish Councils as representatives of the community

Browser Set-up, Compatibility

Some (limited) parts of this site require JavaScript to function. JavaScript as available in version 3 (and above) Navigator and Internet Explorer is sufficient.

In addition, the site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) extensively. The implementation in version 4 browsers is required, and therefore version 4 (and above) browsers are recommended for viewing this site.

Privacy

Certain parts of this website exploit "cookies" to allow for tracking of usage information. At no time is this information used in any other way. You do not have to accept these cookies.

For more information see: "About Cookies"

Tools, techniques

The site was originally developed in AOLPress, in a framed format. However, because of issues around search engines it was switched to a non-framed format. This continued to be maintained in AOLPress, but a growing proportion was developed in MacroMedia's Dreamweaver. This provided a key "library/template" function to automate the update of the left hand navigation bar throughout the site.

Some pages are held as Microsoft Word (Word 2 for compatibility) or Adobe's Acrobat PDF documents.

Graphics are maintained using JASC's PaintShop Pro and with Serif's Photoplus 7, though some use has been made of on-line compression/packing tools to reduce the size of .jpg format images.

The site is hosted at 34sp, domain names having been bought via UKreg.

How Does Histon and Impington OnLine Work?

Histon and Impington OnLine uses some software called Opus which was written by The Hug using a language called PHP. The data is stored in a database called MySQL.

Articles can be written by many authors, which they can do from the web. The authors don't have to understand HTML.

Articles can be embargoed, so they don't appear in the paper until the date/time specified, and expired, so they disappear after the date/time specified.

Articles can be marked to go in the paper's diary, in which case a date and optionally, start and end times, are specified and it will also appear in a diary section.

Opus is "open source", which means you are free to use it for your own projects without a fee. You can find out more about Opus, including the conditions for use, by reading the online manual.