St Teath Village Website

Comments deletion

If you tried to submit a comment, you may have noticed that the result was to add yours and wipe most comments out. This was due to coding error which has been cleared, but any newline or tab entries you made will not now appear. 25.9.2007

Broadband Internet Access

The enabling of broadband internet access in the village in 2005 from the St Tudy exchange has brought new possibilities for distributing local news and information.

While it should be possible for all households in St Teath to receive broadband, it is all too easy to have problems when setting up your connection for the first time ...

Suggestions

1. Internet providers. It is almost impossible to know which to recommend. Your choice may also be influenced by mobile phone services available from the same provider. Have a look at www.broadband.co.uk

2. If you have a modern computer, get a broadband modem/router (not router only) rather than a USB-type broadband modem usually supplied by internet service providers. They cost about £30 upwards and provide good firewall protection which the USB device does not. If the need arises, you can then connect more than one computer to the internet or share files between the computers.

3. Wireless connections. Many routers of the type referred to above now incorporate a wireless access point. This is particularly useful when you have a laptop, for a wireless link generally allows a connection to the internet throughout your home without the constraint of wires. You should always ensure that the connection is encrypted, particularly if you live close to other properties. This requires a simple adjustment on the router and laptop and provides a good degree of protection against others using your internet connection, or perhaps worse, looking at files on your computer(s).

Web browser problems

This website should appear normally in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), but if you use Mozilla Firefox or another browser you will notice some unexpected effects like text misalignment. I am trying to get rid of these inconsistencies, but have to be sure that things appear as intended in IE because it has by far the greatest number of users. Unfortunately, it is IE which does not conform to all rules!

St Teath Newsfeed

This icon means that this website has a newsfeed, sometimes called an RSS feed. With this you can get an update on any new items appearing on the St Teath Village Website without actually visiting the website. Typically, you would have more than one newsfeed appropriate to your interests, so that you could get updates on several sites without having to trawl through them all. For example, you can get several newsfeeds from the BBC website and they can be updated at regular intervals.

It is easy to get a newsfeed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (the latest version) or Mozilla Firefox because they will both display the icon. If you have an earlier version of Internet Explorer you will need to get a program to read these newsfeeds. Many of these are free. For details of how to use them, see the BBC website. You will need the location of the St Teath newsfeed file, which is at www.stteath.co.uk/stt.xml. Just click this address to see the file if you have a recent version of Internet Explorer.