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• The new GPVTS website is online! Welcome to our new site! At the moment it is not quite complete, and is temporarily hosted in a corner of my own server, but we shall find it a proper home before long. This version is designed to demonstrate the concept, and allow us all to become familiar with the procedures for adding news and updates. One of the problems with this sort of project is that they tend to become the province of the one hapless person who talks himself into the job - and as we are all busy people this means they don't get updated very often, which gives little incentive to visit the site. The difference with this new site is that everyone can update it, from any computer with internet access, at any time. You do need a password (which keeps it fairly secure) but you won't need to know anything about web design to add information to the site. I have set up an account with Blogger.com, an online publishing service that allows you to add text, files and pictures to a website from within your web browser. I chose Blogger because it is more or less the industry standard, and has been around for ages by internet standards. It has recently been bought up by Google (the huge search engine company) so I think it will around for some time to come. I will be posting a series of tutorials on how to use Blogger to update the site, and you will be able to download and print a handout of these in due course. The first step is to sign up with Blogger and I'll add you to the list of team members for the site. We need to get some content for this site quickly, so I'll be asking the Course Organizers to start adding timetable information and downloadable handouts. The more updates we make, the more useful this site will become. Good luck! Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2003 by Allan