About our Web Site
The Goal is to compile historical information
and create a site that can be used for outreach purposes.
Between written and photographic evidence, we hope to create a sense of place.
- Most pages on this site are relatively static.
- Obviously, dates of certain recurring events must be updated.
- The business directory, transit routes, etc, will need updating occasionally.
- The Projects & Issues pages are the most dynamic.
- We may use www.swni.org as a project collaboration space, while this site will always provides safe reference material.
The SWNI Drupal project is in its early stages so it is too early to jump over to that completely.
History of the Site
A web presence was originally set up by Karen Swafford on NeighborhoodLink.com.
Jeff Vandehey took some of that data and designed a standalone site using mac.com.
Jeff registered the domain with dyndns.com and hosted it on his own computer for a while.
When Jeff moved out of CV, John Miller recycled the content from the more timely pages into the
site design you see here.
Additional content has been added since December 2006.
The site was hosted by www.webmasters.com for one year, for $120.
That proved too costly. However, the
collinsview.org domain name remains registered with them.
2008
- We pay $10/year for the domain name registration.
- Collinsview.org is set up in DNS with webmasters for point at John Miller's home
DSL line. Millers pay $6/month for the static address so that this is easy to do.
- The site and others are hosted on Linux system running the Apache webserver.
This means that the web pages are reading are actually coming out of
a home in collins view!
- The site is accessible from anywhere in the world, and is visted by "spiders" that index the web. (Google for some unique things on this page is see what comes up, eg: Swafford Vandehey Drupal).
Submissions Please!
Please send photos for our pages!
Anything that would symbolize in any way, the essence of these topics.
Send corrections, additions, and photos for any page to the web guy address on the
Contact Us page.
A Site map, attempting to link to all the pages on the site.
Status of each page, the Writer, the Photo (in progress!)
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