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A list of organizations to which we extend free courtesy hyperlinks and why
By disabled travel writer Keith A. Forbes at keithaforbes@sky.com. Keith lives in Rattray with his wife Lois.
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The purpose of a website is to give your association or business or club or entity or organization a presence on the worldwide web at a price that is both realistic and affordable.
Websites should be run directly from home or place of business by owners/managers. When they all have their own computers these days it makes no sense and defeats an essential part of the purpose of a website as not just a but the key introductory, communications, business development and functional tool of that particular business or group or organization when administration and management of a website is left by that entity's owner or management by default to 3rd parties who don't have a personal vested interest in that particular business, are not concerned whether it makes a profit or a loss so long as they get their website administration/management fee but who nevertheless effectively control the content of, updates for and links to and from that website. Avoid not having a website of your own but instead merely being one of the participants in a website that features businesses both similar to and competing with yours. Have your own website which you can then update in timely fashion the way you want when you want and hyperlink (link) to others entirely as you wish. It's the only way to go. Your own uniquely-named website means having your own domain and the ability to express your own unique individuality, to use the website to your best advantage. Once a learning curve is achieved, perhaps with appropriate web-editing software if not already in use and a reasonably decent digital camera to add photographs and scanner, it's simple and quick to keep a website fresh with updates and changes.
Properly naming a website is important. Don't always assume you can name it what you want. This often happens but sometimes the name has already been taken. The name of your domain will need to be internationally registered (hence "name registration") and a preliminary check must be made to see if that particular name is available or has already been taken. If it and its suffix (for example, ending in co.uk or org or me or biz, etc) has already been taken, there may be a simple work-around, such as merely adding an 01 or 001 to the name.
If you don't already have a website but would like one, instead consider as your first option the inexpensive service given by organizations such as
http://www.spanglefish.com. Basic websites come free but because they are free will have Spanglefish-provided advertisements which the website user cannot switch off or select from. Spanglefish alone, not the user of the site, places these advertisements and derives any revenue from them. Many small good organizations use these free sites despite the advertising. Those who prefer a website that will not carry any Spanglefish-placed advertising can select a Spanglefish Gold site (not free, but inexpensive compared to other website-creating organizations, below).
Best way to control your website, especially when you have lots of photos or graphics and links is not online but offline via a free html WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor easily obtainable online. Make sure it is a WYSIWYG editor.
There is a standard disclaimer when you link to a site. It is that you do not necessarily endorse its content or even agree with some or all of it and are not in any way allied to it. But you electronically link to it for the comprehensive information it provides in ways supplementing and complementing your site that your own site either does not provide or does not do so in the same detail as ours. In short, its information and resources could do much to benefit your website. If you decide not to link to and mention it the choice is entirely yours - but remember the other website will have no reason to want to link to or mention yours.
You or your association or company or corporation are always entirely free, without any permission needed from us, to electronically hyperlink (link) to any of our webfiles. But no permission, under any but the most exceptional circumstances, is given to reproduce any part of our sites - any information or text or graphics or photographs or images - in or for any personal or commercial or educational web pages. The only exceptional circumstance is when the individual or association or corporate entity (a) links to us at http://www.blairgowrieandrattray.org.uk and (b) will publicly acknowledge us as the owner/author of the image or images and/or text. These two provisos must always go together.
Experienced webmasters know that some sites with little traffic want to reciprocally link only because they believe, wrongly, that reciprocal links help make good search engine findings.
Businesses that would like to be listed here with a free courtesy link to their website should first be prepared to create a free courtesy link to this site at http://www.blairgowrieandrattray.org.uk. Once done, this site will promptly create a free courtesy link to their website. Please note it's not a practical proposition to link to/mention or continue to show businesses and websites that would like this site to mention them but won't mention us on their website.
Please note:
More will be added gladly immediately when they do the same.
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Written, administered and web-mastered in Blairgowrie, Scotland, by
Keith A.
Forbes, at keithaforbes@sky.com
© 2012. Revised: February 5, 2012
