Website

The site was upgraded in December 2008, after 8 years from first being put together. The website is now over 4Gb in size and has over 3,300 photos. The upgrade was to put (most of) the photos in an album format split between match photos, team, social, news and juniors. Where practical, the juniors webpages were integrated into the club's default 'seniors' pages and, with the exception of the photos, the social pages were integrated into news. Extraneous stray pages were removed or integrated into others. The front page has been changed to show current information as well as a being a 'gateway' page. The menu choices have been simplified. And the fonts have been changed. And the structure has been changed.

Over the past 8 years, the website has had a number of 'homes'. Originally run from Adelaide, the web-hosters there - more than one of them - would argue about everything except providing a decent service, so the site was migrated to the USA, initially to a 'reseller', then back to Australia briefly and in 2008 to upstate New York to a site-owner, rather than to another reseller. Some of the migrations have been emergency moves done over a weekend. In 2009, the account is to be upgraded from 5gb in size to 15Gb, which takes it into a 'business' class but that predominantly because of the size & quantity of photos and videos now loaded up on to it.

The club's colours are maroon and navy and so these colours are used throughout the website.

The photographs come from a number of sources.

Most of the team photos were scanned from the framed photos in the clubhouse (the photos then kindly re-framed by Richard Wells, a friend to Old Collegians' as well as his own club, Adelaide Uni), a significant number taken from 1996 were taken by Paul Horne (using a 1975 Minolta 101b), most of the photos taken in 2001, 2002 and 2003 are by Kim Evans, Kristie Hume and Lusia Rakiwasa and are taken with a digital camera, some photos have come from the Adelaide Advertiser archives, other photos come from various members' collections. Paul Horne has taken a number of photos since getting back to Australia in 2006, this time using a digital camera (Canon EOS 400D). The source of each photo is often indicated where known. From 2004 more people had (digital) cameras and started supplying photos.

The team photos and Adelaide Advertiser photos are held with the club's historical documents, currently with Paul Horne (in secure storage in Adelaide)

All pre-digital photos taken by Paul Horne have been scanned as high resolution tif files then re-sampled as jpeg files which are those displayed on this site. Later digital photos were taken in large format.

The logos were digitally resampled by Graham Pankhurst of Charles Cannon Design. The logos can be accessed online but a password will be needed. Contact Paul Horne for it, or to get them emailed.

The website was first developed in 2000 as a means of storing some club history and telling people what the draws and results were. The site has been written using an html editor with some prototyping using FrontPage. It was originally developed on a Pentium 166 Wintel machine. The photos were presented as thumbnails in size with an option to look at a larger format to account for everyone then using similar machines, and older browsers. It was designed for people who had slow, clunky, beasty-things that threw out more radiation and ozone than information. The amount of space available from web-hosters was measured in megabytes, and that provided begrudgingly. And the web browsers then were incompatible with each other, as they still are, but then more obviously so.

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