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| . | p28 Mike Roberts, owner of The N16 Web Works (www.n16webworks.com), offers a brief insight into local websites. If you would like your web site mentioned in future issues, contact us at info@n16mag.com I promised in the last issue that we would look at the good, the bad and the downright
weird web sites that cover the Stoke Newington area. And so I have to report that Hackney
Council's latest web offering left me feeling very frustrated, and with a crashed
computer. The City and Hackney Community Information System (COMIS) is supposed to be a
new centralised information resource with information covering some 2,500 organisations in
the local area which provide help and support to local people. However I found the set-up
confusing, and the navigation almost impossible. If they can get it to work it should
provide a very useful aid in finding out the right organisation when you need help.
However, as of the middle of November it's just a pain in the butt. As many parents are currently finalising decisions on where their children will go to
secondary school next year, it is good to see that Stoke Newington School, which has just
gained Media Arts College status, has launched its school web site. While it is a little
sparse at the moment, they have promised that it will quickly fill out and build on what
is a good foundation. More information on specialist schools can be found at: www.tctrust.org.uk If you are looking for something different as a Christmas present, then some of our
local arts based web sites might just provide an answer. The first is that of The
Chocolate Factory on Farleigh Road which is a wonderful collection of artists, sculptors,
ceramists etc. Their web site, which suffers slightly from a little slowness caused by the
Flash navigation, provides details of each artists work and contact details. There is some
lovely work on display, and although I didn't avail myself of the opportunity I noticed
that you can even play designer space invaders. A fun site well worth visiting. Running until 16 December at The Kiosk Project, Kynaston Road is a group show entitled
'then part 1' curated by local Icelandic artist Gisli Bergmann. A number of powerful
images from the show can be seen on the site. The second part of the group show will take
place in February 2002. The site contains a full programme of events and past shows. Hidden Art As we stated in the last issue we are very happy to review your web site if you are based or work in the Stoke Newington area. We received two requests to have a look and both, in their own way, are worth a visit. Firstly, Creative Consol, who are based in Alconbury Road, have developed a complete
Contact Management System scaleable from a single user desktop version to a Multi-user,
with Internet enabled distributed solutions. With an interface designed by users, and
integration with Microsoft Office, this well could be a solution if you need a CMS
package. They also offer a full range of one stop support services and bespoke data base
packages. From a web design point of view the site suffers from the overuse of images
containing text, which makes it very hard if you are surfing with a text based browser or
have your images to view switched off. More details can be found on their web site at: And the second site to come under scrutiny is Olive's Bodycare. If you are looking for
a new fitness trainer then Olive's site might well be worth checking out. She offers a
wide range of individually tailored packages. These are just some of the services that
Olive offers: nutritional planning, corporate programmes, holiday programmes, G P referral
programmes, over 60s exercises, postural stability and chair based aerobics. A nice
compact site which is let down slightly by poor spell checking and subbing. To find out
more visit her site at: A firm favourite amongst many locals, FriendsReunited is a simple to use web site that
allows you to find out what your old school and college friends are doing now. The
database lists over 40,000 UK secondary and primary schools, colleges and universities.
More than 2.5 million people have registered and this is growing at over 20,000 a day. It
recently made the headlines because part of the site allowed you to make comments on your
old teachers. Unfortunately some of the comments caused offence and this part of the site
has been taken out of commission. A great web based service, and almost everyone I know
who has logged on has made contact with long lost friends. While many of you will have come across sites like www.multimap.co.uk and streetmap.co.uk, which provide good online maps, a similar site for historical maps can be visited at www.old-maps.co.uk. The Stoke Newington area is shown as it was in 1876. A much larger listing of Stoke Newington related web sites can be found on the N16 magazine site: www.n16mag.com/weblinks |
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