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Date Posted: 16:49:27 02/01/06 Wed
Author: David - webmaster
Subject: Abertillery Online website; statement

First may I apologise to all for the lack of updates on here of late and also for the lack of answers to the thread below started by Mike in Australia. My personal apologies to you Mike for not having answered your original question.

OK - some answers to inform you all of the true sitaution and corrections to some inadvertent misinformation in the above thread in answers by others.

1) My intention has always been to run this site to create/maintain interest in my home town of Abertillery which is why I started it back in 1999. My firmly held belief is that the town and its community needs a presence on the net to promote and them.

2) I have been/was/am ambitious in trying to make it as interesting and useful to the widest scetion of vistors with sections that appeal to all from pictures (past and present), history, Tyleri Tales, picture and other quizzes etc, through to services for offer and current news. I will leave others to judge its sucess or otherwise. With regard to news I have been lucky in that Carolyn supplied me with information that I was able to load and with regard to pictures many people have been kind enough to offer fantastic images. In addition, I believe the message board has been successful in generating interest and debate, another key feature.

3) I live in Cardiff, not Abertillery, have a young family and work full time as a research scientist, which means my leisure time is limited with what I can do with the site. The major reason for the "suspension" of the main site is that that work has taken more and more of my time. I had hoped that I would be moving into a position where this site could be developed on a more full time basis from my point of view (I cannot say too much on that in case my boss is reading this! ;-)) However, sadly it is now the case that that opportunity has gone at least for the forseeable future.

4) I hope to keep the main site running in some form. The situation is not down to money as I pay the fees needed to register the site and its hosting out of my own pocket as my hobby and "contribution" to the town. The problem is time and effort required as I have said above. I am very willing to pass the running of the site to others in its entirety - I think it would make a great community adventure and project, but be warned it takes time to do it properly. The fees are not that extortionate and no-one has to pay me personally contrary to the suggestion in the thread below. The message board as the same person said is hosted free anyway.

I will await any responses with interest. I don't see it as "my" site but rather it belongs to everyone who cares about Abertillery and the surrounding community.

Best wishes

David

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