{"id":249,"date":"2011-10-05T06:33:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T06:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/wp\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-08-30T06:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T06:35:43","slug":"member-societies-websites-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/member-societies-websites-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Societies Websites competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the astronomical societies in the FAS operate their own websites. So the FAS Council decided to review all the member societies websites and pick what it thought were the top 3 websites. We did not tell you about this in advance because we wanted to judge the websites as they currently are. The winners (and prizes) of the website competition are as follows:
\n1st prize (\u00a3150) goes to Blackpool & District AS<\/a>
\n2nd prize (\u00a3100) goes to Derby AS<\/a>
\n3rd prize (\u00a350) goes to Stratford upon Avon AS<\/a>
\nOur congratulations go to the winners but it was a very difficult job to pick the top 3 as the standard and quality of society websites is generally very good indeed. Our evaluation of websites included the following criteria:
\n\u2022 The aesthetics and general appearance of the website, was it welcoming or daunting
\n\u2022 were there sensible and clear menus and was it easy to navigate the pages and quickly find the information you wanted – when and where the society met, what happened at meetings, what the society did\/offered to its members.
\n\u2022 did the website allow society members to display their astrophotography and\/or articles. Could one download past newsletters of the society.
\n\u2022 were any additional services or information offered by the website e.g. \u2018how to\u2019 articles for newcomers, what\u2019s on in the night sky, choosing a telescope.
\n\u2022 were there links to the BAA, SPA and CfDS websites. Was there additional information about light pollution on the website.
\n\u2022 was there a link to the FAS website (additional point scored if on the society\u2019s home page!) No such link meant disqualification!
\n\u2022 was the link on the FAS\u2019s website to the society\u2019s website up to date and working. If not the society was eliminated from the competition \u2013 hey it\u2019s up to your nominated society officers to provide and keep this link up to date!
\n\u2022 no clashing colour schemes or small fonts or weird animations that made it harder to find and see the info on screen<\/p>\n

We have not yet decided if and when to run the competition again but if you want your society to be in with a chance of winning make sure your society\u2019s website manager checks the website content against the above criteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the astronomical societies in the FAS operate their own websites. So the FAS Council decided to review all the member societies websites and pick what it thought were the top 3 websites. We did not tell you about this in advance because we wanted to judge the websites as they currently are. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"fasadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/fasadmin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 15 years ago","modified":"Updated 14 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 5 October, 2011","modified":"Updated on 30 August, 2012"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 5 October, 2011 6:33 am","modified":"Updated on 30 August, 2012 6:35 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-41","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}