Click Here to confirm your consent to proceedWelcome to The 49 Club new website - launched in February 2024.
This website has been re-launched in February 2025
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We hope that you all enjoy this new user-experience.
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In this section are Articles from Members and Contributors
This page contains some general information regarding the Articles section of this website.
Individual articles are available in other subsections via the DropDown box.
The articles have been submitted by Club Members and other contributors. The club is always pleased to assess any articles which Members may like to offer for publication here.
If you would like to contribute an article please follow these guidelines:
- initially please contact one of the Club Organisers to assess the subject of your proposed article, their contact details are shown elsewhere on the website:
- the Newsletter Editor
- the Membership Secretary
- the Treasurer
If the initial assessment of your proposed article is acceptable you will receive further details on how to produce it. These are the main aspects:
- a large article can be produced as a fully-formed DTP-type document using Word or other DTP software but this format can cause complications for publishing on a webpage:
- the embedded formatting may clash with HTML on our website
- producing it as a PDF is 'safe' for the website HTML but PDFs are not always ideal for viewing on webpages
- we can convert DTP articles to HTML manually but this can be time-consuming
- a small article with images can be produced as simple blocks of text with accompanying separate images. Formatting and layout are more-limited but our website system can quickly generate the HTML for the webpage. These are the main points of how this works:
- blocks or sections of paragraphs of text can be produced in Word
- each section that has an accompanying image should be limited to around 1500 characters or 200 words - this is so that the image can be shown alongside relevant text
- each section that does not have an accompanying image is not limited on length
- total length of text in all sections should be no more than 2000 words
- each section is saved in a separate document
- each image is saved as a JPEG file and labelled to go with its accompanying text
- a small article without images can be produced as a single text file. This is easier to work with but usually less-attractive to the viewer on a website:
- the text document can be produced in Word
- total length of text in all paragraphs should be no more than 2000 words
- it is saved in a single document
