ENTS/WNTS-
My apologies to Ed for I am as big a slacker as anybody here when it
comes to properly Titling and 'Subjecting'...lazily I will just grab
the address I need and go...
But if you or I were doing Ed's organizing, we'd have to be acrobatic
enough to kick or own butts!!!
So please, try doing the right thing for this new year!!! On the next
one...
-Don
Sent from Don's iPhone 3GS...
On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:01 PM, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote:
ENTS,
I spent most of the day today bringing the website up to date.
There has been an enormous number of posts in enormous number of
topics since I last worked on the website. There has been thirty-
some posts since I finished the update earlier this afternoon.
There are some things I would like to suggest, that would like to
ask you to do when posting to the discussion list. These are not
demands, but please....
1) When posting on a subject use a Title in the subject line
that is Meaningful. It should say what the post is about, and if it
is a trip report it should say where the report is talking about.
For example a post entitled "A Short Hike" is not very meaningful or
informative to someone reading it. It is hard to index, and hard
to find that post using the search features of Google or the ENTS
website. A better title might be something like "A Short Hike, Mt.
Tom Reservation, MA."
2) When changing the subject in a discussion, start a new topic
thread. It is not enough to just change the name in the subject
line. That does not work. Google will still not think it is a new
topic. To start a new topic, use a blank email addressed to [email protected]
with a new Subject title. You can copy and paste sections from the
old topic into the new post if you want. Remember New Topic- then
New Blank Email.
3) Resizing Photos. I really like photos in the post and want
to encourage them. However many people in the group have slower
connections. It would be useful if people would resize the photos
if possible before attaching them or embedding them into the
emails. I find a size of 600 x 450 pixels, or even 800 x 600 pixels
to be plenty large enough for the ENTS posts. There are
instructions on how to resize photos both in the "Pages" section of
the Google site and in the ENTS section of the website.
As I said, these are just suggestions, but it would make things
easier for people trying to access the material and posts we are
producing.
Ed Frank
http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/
http://primalforests.ning.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=709156957
