Not much going on...

or is there? Well, my time has been taken up with producing a leaflet map for a railway "up north" and a draft set of maps for the WSR rule book. I have also been working on a possible replacement Forum, which could, if suitable and if members want it to, replace the current Yahoo based group. Several chums have been testing the new phpBB/MySQl based software and I have just asked, publicly, for a few more. The fine tuning is not complete but I feel ready to open it up for some more testing. So perhaps no much visible output, well, not yet anyway...

To advertise or not

So far I have resisted any third party advertising on the site. I do get requests, not many, mostly from B&Bs, so there could be a small market to tap. Because many of the Railway's visitors need accommodation, I offer the "Where to Stay" page http://www.wsr.org.uk/stay.htm which lists quite a number of establishments and contact details, at no cost. Now I am re-considering. More efficient ways of serving up the website is costing me more - whether it is a fast FTP link for uploading the huge number of images now coming in, or investing in a server-based database, to enable easier content management. Oh, decisions, decisions.

Up and Down and Up

The website took a five hour break today when the webservers went a bit wonky. Being a Saturday I suspect they had to drag a techie back from a footie game or shopping or whatever. It just shows how we depend on the service provided by Freeola (our website hosts). I think they have provided great service for the last six-seven years so a short break in transmission can be forgiven. It'd be nice to have the "Potter's Wheel" or similar old fill-in shown to visitors whilst the techies sort the problem...