Ok, bear with us, we have some teething troubles.
Contrary to the previous post, the usual content has been missing for several days now. Our traffic is low and all documentation is available by email direct from trustees so we’re going to take the time to get this site right.
One of the objectives of the current trustees is to ensure that all aspects of the company’s operations are well documented, automatic where possible and easy to hand over. The policies section of the website is a key part of this. Whenever policies are updated we do not want to type them more than once. To aid with this we use a collaborative authoring tool called writeboard to produce the copy, review and finally, flag for publication.
Those documents print nicely straight from a browser and that’s how we get the hard copy when required. A script that our geeky trustee is working on screen-scrapes (technical term :-)) the html from those pages and puts the clean html into this blog.
The writeboard tool is easy to use. Posting to this site is easy. And the geeky script takes care of insulating staff and trustees from the hassle of making sure that our printed and online versions reflect the latest versions of the policies.
So you see, our goals are worthy but it takes a while to fit this in when we’re all volunteers. If you need information quickly about Ridgeway, admissions info for example or to arrange a visit, don’t wait for this site to be sorted, just contact us right now. We will answer your questions promptly.