Athletics
In The
South-West
In The
South-West
Athletics In The South-West
Describing the sport of Athletics
in Avon, Cornwall, Devon,
Dorset, Gloucestershire,
Somerset and Wiltshire.
Website / Meetings: Technical Matters
Intercom Radio Protocols |
![]() You have had an intercom radio thrust into your hands at a meeting. This YouTube Video from Welsh Athletics gives a guide to what you should and shouldn't do and say when operating it. |
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Broken Website Links |
Broken Links?: Sometimes websites are closed, or their owners / controllers rename them without telling anyone.
Website managers might find this
Dead Link Checker site (free for occasional use) useful.
Late October 2020: This site's Webmaster did a check on a random sample of SW County and Club websites -- and entries came up for a few of these. December 2020: Note: the above link checker doesn't pick up all problems. One club (no, I'm not saying which one!) changed its website URL a bit ago. The "extinct" URL had been bought by a venture which, to put it mildly, does not conform to the normal ethos of an athletic club. |
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Secure Sockets Layer -- What's That? |
More simply known as SSL, this is a small piece of software which guarantees that websites whose URL begins
https: have a guaranteed level of secure, encrypted communication, very significant for sites which accept
subscriptions, race entries, etc. on-line. You can read more about these at
This Site.
However these 'Certificates' can expire, as UKA found out a few months ago when their website went down. Hopefully the relevant software supplier will remind you in time, but if you want to check the expiration date and are using the Google Chrome browser:
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"It's On The Website" -- "No, It's Not" |
If a website user complains that they can't see the site update you recently made, it could simply be
that the complainant is looking at the previous version of the site, 'helpfully' being held in the
Browser Cache to save upload time when you re-visit a site. To clear this problem, ask the user to:
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