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Zoe Quilter

If the following goes over your head and you don't know a bit from a byte, please don't worry.

I need content; the form I get it in just means more or less work for me, although sometimes the wrong format or size can mean you wasting your own time because internet service providers have rules on the maximum size of files they will send attached to an email, or ridiculously prohibitive time wise for me to work the oracle on whatever I have been sent.

If you have a computer phobia, you can always give me hard copy text, photographs, or anything else at the field; I'm the mad woman wearing knee pads and usually found at the controlline circles.

I am also used to photographing things. So if push comes to shove, you have no camera and need a picture to submit to the web site for some reason, just ask.

ANYTHING you are not sure of, or need qualifying or explaining. PLEASE ASK FIRST, I don't have rabies or bite. It could save us both a lot of time and frustration in the long run.

I need content to make this viable and interesting. Any members that have news, pictures, or short pieces on their own disciplines, i.e.. heli, fixed wing, controlline, events, competitions/results, or anything of general interest, please send them to me here

It would be nice if someone had some pictures of the club in days gone by to accompany the brief history of the club.

Submission Requirements

Emails: There seems to be a great deal of ignorance about emails and I don't have the time to teach everyone how to use them properly, that's up to you to find out, mostly it's only a case of finding the right buttons to press.

DO USE PLAIN TEXT ONLY PLEASE: do not send in any other format, especially HTML.
DO ATTACH any images to the message
DO learn how to place a link in an email that points to a website site.

DO NOT embed images in the body of the email: (BIG CLUE) you can't if the message is sent as plain text.

Failure to at least try to do the above may result in a short sharp bin and delete!

What follows goes into more detail.

For MS Windows users, anything from 95 to Windows 7, (Linux: you should know this already.):-

(Most of the following only require, 'Save As' to be chosen from the 'File' menu of a program (top left of a window), and an appropriate format chosen.)

Text: please do not send .doc or .pdf files unless you have absolutely no option; they just take me longer to convert and can be a pain in the bum to work into a web page.

Everything .txt format please.

Just do a 'save as' a copy of your .doc , pdf or word files and choose plain text '.txt' and send me that attached to an email. it won't alter your originaly precious .doc file or whatever. Or, use Notepad to compose, or Wordpad, or your favourite word processor; but please 'save as' Text (.txt). It's often forgotten that an email program is also a word processor, and can be set to compose and send as 'text only' this is quite suitable for this purpose.

note: pdf files can be pain in the rear. In most cases there is no reason to send anything as a pdf file.

Hard copy: typed if possible please. Please bear in mind that if it's hand written, I have to type it all out again, and I am NO typist.

Photographs: photographs no bigger than 1024x768 pixels in .jpg format, diagrams/drawings preferably in .gif or png format.

Please do not send images as .tif (.tiff) files, and under no circumstances as pdf files!

I do not know who everyone is, and just because we have spoken, I don't necessarily know your name. So when submitting pictures, if possible, please quote who the picture is of? , model? and any other interesting info.

This can usually be entered into the Exif data embedded in image files as a 'Comment'. I have to enter this by hand for images if you don't do it yourself.

And finally: tempting though it is; please! try not to write your life history as the file name......

Hard copy photographs: glossy paper if possible.

Spread sheets: in .csv (Comma Separated Values) format please.

Any of the above can be emailed to me here , as long as the total size of all email attachments does not exceed 5MB. If it does, the message will be bounced back to you by my service provider.

Last updated 13/12/09

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