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Re: Happy Birthday

Rose PT8 <hevenyng...@aol.com>

Well, I hadn't realised that it was a year ago today that the EFCC web
went live.  Thanks for reminding us, Fred.

In fact, when I saw the subject heading of your email I thought,
maybe, the news had got out that today is also Steve's birthday!!

Anyhow, Happy Birthday EFCC website.  And yes, if anyone has anything
they would like to see on the website or have any new ideas for
content etc., then just drop me an email.  Fresh ideas and imput are
always glady received.

I hope to continue the same level of committment to the website as I
have done over the past year and look forward to having your cruise
reports and photos to upload.  So please continue to support our
website.  And, yes, I'm sure I'm a little greyer after all those
headaches Fred and I had in trying to get it the site and running ( I
know I had many sleepless nights).

Thank you to all those who have been actively involved whether by
ideas or by contributing material for the site.  All that has just
make my life a little easier.

Rose

On 5 Apr, 09:07, "Fred - Summertime Blues"

<fred.graf...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All

> Well doesn't time fly.

> Around the first week in March last year, I approached the Committee
> and proposed that the Club have their own website, and they were all
> in favour, in broad terms.
> (I had tried this about 10 years ago but the time wasn't right in
> 1996).

> Yes it was a year ago (this Saturday to be exact) that I made a
> presentation to the EFCC Committee to convince them that our own
> website would be good for the Club.

> At a subsequent meeting, the Commiittee gave their full support both
> to the website and of course, the necessary funding for setting up and
> running the site.

> Well, what a year this has been:

> Rose May offered to be our webmistress and set it all up for us, so
> Rose and I started playing around with the format and layout etc.
> She initially started to build the website as part of her own website
> to give us a taste of how it would look, and it was looking very good.

> I then set up a URL for the Club (www.eastfarleighcruisingclub.co.uk)
> with UKReg and set up the Hosting with Fasthosts to give us 750mb
> webspace and unlimited email addresses, and after a few trials and
> tribulations, Rose managed to publish the site to our own host, and
> get it up and running.

> Rose then continued to build our website, and the rest as they say is
> "HISTORY"......

> In my opinion, we have a website that is user-friendly, well informed
> and well structured, full of interesting information and content, and
> is far better than many other club websites I have visited on the
> internet.  (the Maidstone River Festival Website were so impressed
> that they gave us a mention and a link from the River Festival Website
> - check it out).

> Rose has done an excellent job with the layout and getting it all
> working correctly, and I feel it is a site that we can be proud of as
> a Club.

> My personal thanks go to Rose for setting up an excellent Website for
> us, and continuing to populate and improve it over the past year.
> Sorry about all the sleepless nights you have had Rose!

> Now, If you feel that your website is missing something, then let Rose
> or myself know and we will get your idea up and running for you.

> Please visit your  website regularly for all the latest
> news(especially on Red Diesel), and don't forget to have a go at my
> "brain teaser".

> Happy Boating and Surfing and of course, Birthday...

> Fred
> Vice Commodore