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EMAILS

Email: webmaster@theiac.org.uk

You can send unformatted text in your email, or attach word-processed documents.

If your club syllabus or promotional brochure is on a word-processed document, I can usually accept that. Examples are Microsoft Word documents and Adobe PDF files. If I have problems opening your attachment, I'll let you know and we can figure out the best way to resolve that.

For publication - choose your words carefully.

The internet is very informal.  Write as you would speak and make your club or event sound attractive.  Include details of where and when you meet or the event takes place.  Include a way for people to contact you - ideally an email address or telephone number.  Remember this information will be very public so think twice about what to include.

Smile please!

If a picture on paper paints 1,000 words on the web it's worth 10,000. Send frames from your video, snaps of the club at work, a copy of your poster, your club logo ...

If you have a digital stills camera, a stills facility on your camcorder or you edit video on a computer system you can capture images electronically.  If not, you can scan pictures. Scanners cost from £50, plug into your computer and give good results. You may even find a local photo processor who will scan pictures for you and put them onto disc - though this may be costly.

Don't email them as they are!  The picture files are probably far too big and of much too high a quality for the web.

Use picture editing software (there are many packages available free):

• trim off unwanted edges (not too tightly)
• reduce the image to a sensible size, usually 3 inches (8cm) wide is enough
• reduce its quality to 100 dpi (dots per inch) or so.
• convert it to jpg or jpeg format
• save it with a name which helps identify the contents

This will make the file much smaller and easier to handle.

Attach images to your emails - see your email program's help files for details of how to do this. Don't forget to send captions in the body of the email.

It may take several days for me to process ... web work has to fit into my leisure time ... but it will be put up on the web site as soon as I can.

- Jan Watterson (IAC webmaster)