If you have visited the site before you may find some things have changed and I will use this page to alert you to recent developments (most recent additions in italics).

 

On Sunday 19 February 2023 I was pleased to receive and publish details of the first 3 walks on the Spring 2023 programme. Also on the Members' Photos Page we already have photographs taken on no less than six rambles from 2 January to 12 February. Many thanks to the leaders of these walks and to our gallant photographers Antoinette Adkins, Brian Falls and Maria Langford. 

 

The members' photos page continues to be very popular and is the most visited apart from the home page. 

 

I am pleased to say that every new page is visited more than once in the first few days after it is added to the site.

 

We have now had the counter of visits to the website for well over eight years. The hit counter you can see on your screen has now reached 84,000 visitors but this is a slightly suspect figure as the counter remembers individual visitors in the course of one month but not from month to month. A more meaningful statistic is the number of visits to individual pages and this amounts to nearly 2,000 and rising up to February 2023. The number of visitors in any one month now regularly in the region of 900 and can be anywhere between 200 and 1,100 and the number of page visits has been as many as 10,000 in one month. Happily the number of visitors did not drop off too much during the period of no rambles. 

 

Changes to the website:

 

Programme Archive: I am making slow but sure progress with the programme archive which continues to be popular with visitors.  When I introduced this page In November 2012 I found that my technical knowledge was not up to creating a normal web page for each programme of which I did not have an electronic copy. For older programmes I therefore created PDF copies and put a link to the PDF on the archive page. However I have now devised a means of creating web pages for these programmes and have introduced them in place of the PDF copies. This has the advantage that our hit counter will tell me how often each programme is accessed whereas it does not count visits to PDFs. However In creating the PDFs I was not able to remove contact details of committee members and with the introduction of the new Data Protection Regulations in 2018 this created a problem. At that stage there were 55 programmes available only as PDFs and I took these down temporarily and have now replaced them with standard website pages with addresses and telephone numbers removed.

 

Members photos: We continue to update the members photos page which has been there as long as the present Home Page and is the most visited part of the website apart from the home page, with 84,000 hits up to the end of August 2022.  To maintain this success we would still ask members to PLEASE take your cameras with you when you walk and let us have copies of any photographs you take.  If you cannot e mail the electronic file you can always post the phtographs to me and I will scan them and return your hard copies to you.  As you may know my name is Tony Finnegan and my address is 30 Avarn Road, Tooting, London SW17 9HA.