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As of October 31, 2000, NAS has discontinued the hosting of local chapter websites. Please visit the Alternatives for Chapter Site Updates web page.
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As of October 31, 2000, NAS has discontinued the hosting of local chapter websites. Please visit the Alternatives for Chapter Site Updates web page. |
You or your board may find it helpful to think of a chapter web site as a sort of 24-hour, free "electronic brochure" for your chapter. Information you choose to share about your chapter can be uploaded to a computer that is connected to the Internet.
Anyone who visits the National Audubon Society web site can click on the "Chapter" button on the front page, then click on your state name and then find your chapter name in the list of chapters in your state. If you have a chapter web site, your chapter name will be highlighted as a clickable link to your chapter web site. That online visitor will then have immediate access to information about your chapter's field trips, programs and other activities.
More and more communities have web sites and are willing to link to local nonprofit web sites. With a chapter web site address, you have a new and exciting way to promote your chapter, 24-hours a day.
How do we get started with a chapter web site?
You can design your own chapter web pages using the information below. (The next question further down explains how to get your chapter web site ONLINE once it is created!)
A specific web page of suggestions is available to help you decide how to put your chapter newsletter on the web.
If you design your own pages, you are also encouraged to read the Audubon Coding Guide which lists generally accepted standards for HTML coding used on the NAS site.
How does our chapter site get online and "live"?
We have put together a lsiting of resources to help you find a home
for your website. Please see http://www.audubon.org/net/webmasters/index.html
How does our chapter web site get linked to and from the NAS web site?
Your chapter name, on the NAS list of all chapters in your state, can appear as a highlighted, clickable link to your chapter web site regardless of where your chapter web site is hosted. [The list of all NAS chapters by state is found at www.audubon.org/chapter.]
To link your chapter site from the NAS web site, simply send your chapter name, state and web site address to Chapter Services.
Once you create a new chapter web site, please let use know when you are ready to have the site linked publically. It will not be linked publically, as described above, until you send an email to the Chapter Services, letting us know that your site is ready.
If you would like to add a link from your chapter site to the
NAS web site, you may wish to read about how
to link to NAS.
Can our chapter use Audubon art on our chapter site?
You will find digitized images of Audubon art on many web sites including the National Audubon Society site. However, it is considered bad manners and is probably illegal to copy art from someone else's web site without first getting permission.
J. J. Audubon's art is in the public domain which means you could make your own digital images from print copies of the art using a scanner and an image editing program such as PaintShopPro (available as shareware from http://www.jasc.com/). But, images which have been scanned by someone else and already exist on a web site are considered to belong to that web site's owner. In general, if you want to use art from other websites, you should get permission from the webmaster.
Please *do not* use images from the NAS site on your chapter pages, with the exception of our NAS link graphic at http://www.audubon.org/net/link/linking.html. This restriction is to avoid diluting the value of our imagery through their use on other web sites.
If you are looking for digital images of Audubon's art, you might try
this web site about Audubon's Birds of America but please note that
the author's copyright statement says that the images are for non-commerical,
educational or personal use only. (Presumably chapter web site use would
be allowable but courtesy suggests asking permission via email.)
How can we add a visitor counter or automatic date functions to our chapter web pages?
There are a number of sites that offer free digital counters.
One of the best ones is Web Counter.
How do we put a form on our chapter site and get the completed form information returned to us?
Typically, a chapter may use a web page form on its site to solicit chapter-generated memberships or orders for chapter sales. To create the actual form layout, it may be easiest to use an HTML editing program. Once the form is created, you could simply use the following FORM command at the start of your form and the form results will be sent, via email, to the address you specify in place of the sample email @ address below:
<FORM method=POST action="mailto:email@address">
Where can I get answers to questions not listed here?
If you have questions regarding the overall content or policy of the National Audubon Society web site, please address them to Jason Gross.
If you have FTP
access to your chapter web site, your chapter contact, or webmaster,
is automatically subscribed to the CHAPTER-OWNER email discussion list.
Information useful for chapter webmasters is periodically posted to this
list and chapter webmasters can share suggestions or ask questions on this
list as well.
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