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A key aspect of making content accessible is to ensure it uses the many different sizes of screen to best effect. For example if you have a very long list and a very wide screen it would be best if the number of columns increases responsively to use this additional space.

eg https://fairs.manystories.org/fairs

To make the template as flexible as possible and to allow each Place to have its own identity, we use a tranparent logo and colour variables within the coding to change all aspects of the main colours.

In order to make adding content as easy as possible we have added tooltips for each field. In the first instance theit is a singe sentence that may prove enough, at the end of which is a link to a paragraph going int more details [and maybe a video link?]

Firstly go to XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends and download latest Windows version.

Install and accept all defaults

pin the resulting Xampp control panel to the Task bar

Apache > config > php.ini

change ;extension=gd TO extension=gd > save > stop/start Apache

IN browser go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ > databases > create > say 'test01'

go to https://www.drupal.org/download > download latest zip to C:\xampp\htdocs

Many aspects of these website templates are enhanced by 'free' features that Google provides, BUT despite costing nothing they insist on the account being linked to a credit card :-(. 

For this project (rather that asking local teams to link their card - we need their enthusiasm not their money) I got a seperate credit card and then dropped the limit to just £150. 

Could we add animated lights to a street stroll?

WARC (Web ARChive) is a file format specifically designed for web archives. It's primarily used for the long-term preservation of digital data.

Nottingham University Digital Research has an excellent tutorial to set this up once installed on your pc run one of these commands

For a static html version

StreetStrolls in ANY direction!

Our new template can handle showing each side of the street

So facing WEST side https://manystories.org/full/strollala/ala01

facing East Side https://manystories.org/full/strolldla/dla01 

or even facing north https://manystories.org/full/strollalo/alo06

We have had great success engaging the local community through Facebook. Getting stories, photos and volunteers. Firstly we asked all our team members to:

Logon to / join Facebook, then Search > [your town/village name], History, heritage etc > Groups tab and then join (consider joining the general groups as well)

A great free way to keep your team and supporters regularly informed of how your heritage project is going.

Just go to Mailchimp.com and sign up, for organisation use your project name (you can change it later)

If nothing else if you go to Audience > Sign Up Forms > manage forms you can get a subscribe link to add to website and social media etc

There are lots of helpful videos as well