Your Portal to Rhododendrons in New England which is our chapter portal uses Microsoft Office Live Small Business Basic.
Live, although requiring a credit card to register, is free for the first 500 megabytes of storage having an extensive user community and supporting a wide range of browsers. Live has limited branding and no ads or pop ups.
Live provides a free domain name for your site.
Live supports creating a traditional web site. Web pages can be created or edited using the Live online editor using Internet Explorer. Pages consisting of paragraphs and simple formatting are easy created. Any page can be updated at any time using this editor. Pages can be deleted. Live supports links, images, and iframes when a more complex page is desired.
Live organizes pages by creating a navigation menu. Each page has an individual url. Each Live web page is built using a selected template. Live web parts supporting weather, maps, and slide shows are available.
Live contains a document library where many kinds of digital documents can be stored including Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, XSLT, and CSS. Documents are uploaded online one at a time. Live contains an image gallery restricting images to being a maximum of 640 pixels in either dimension. Images are uploaded online in batch.
Our Portal provides an entry way to the Chapter's online resources which includes our digital pile of text documents stored on the Rosebay Blog and our digital pile of images stored on Rosebay Album. The Portal also provides links to our Chapter web sites including Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England, Online Rosebay Journal, Online Species Booklet, Chapter Calendar, P4M Database as well as over under external rhododendron related sites.
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