The new Chapter web site is based on the concept of digital piles of naked information meaning the information is only as formatted as is needed to be human readable. Information is of 2 types text and images and to store this information the chapter has 2 digital piles. One pile for the the text such as that found in the body of an email and one pile for images such as those produced by a digital camera.
The Rosebay Blog is our digital text pile. This blog can be thought of as a series of emails ordered by date, grouped by labels, and searchable. Most emails are simple in that the body of the message is merely a series of paragraphs with little or no extra formatting.
The blog supports most complex formatting and the introduction of images but the use of these features are the exception rather than the rule. Posts to the blog can be emailed merely adding the email address of the Blog to the "to box" of any email. The subject of the email such reflect the contents of the email message since the subject is used to reference the post. The Blog supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Blog Feed to know when new posts to the Blog have arrived.
The Rosebay Album is our digital image pile. This album can be thought of as a series of images grouped by album where each image has a caption. The Album supports RSS allowing members who sign up for the Album Feed to know when new images to the Album have arrived.
For those Chapter members wishing to know how to post to our Rosebay Blog or upload images to our Rosebay Album contact us at
http://arsmc.org/contactus_stub.aspx
This post was emailed to the Blog.
Celebrating 10 Years on the Web
John and Sally Perkins
