The website is being developed as an additional tool for communication between plotholders and with the management committee – we will welcome your views on what you would find helpful in any future developments. It has been added to:
- Notices at the gardens – usually below the main gate; occasionally added to box by stile
- Emails issued by Treasurer John Farrington
- Letters/phone calls from the Secretary
The contents include:
- News items
- Calendar of future events
- About Us information, including the History of the allotment and committee membership
- A Forum to share between plotholders information (such as deer damage), offers (such as spare seeds), queries (such as whether others have experienced particular problems that season)
- Gardening Tips
- Resources – a compilation of documents usually provided to members (such as the Plotholder Agreement) plus other documents you may find helpful.
- Contact information and member messaging.
Suggestions for the future include a Photo Album, for which your pictures will be very welcome.
Members-only content
Much of the website will be seen only by plotholders. Where relevant, items have been made visible to the public. One item has been included specifically for the public – “How to get involved”, which includes membership information and the extent of the waiting list.
To see member content, you use the login link in the left hand footer of all website pages. See below for a reminder of the advice you were given when provided with a member account about how to log in.
Member messaging
If you wish to contact another plotholder, this can be done through the Member section of the website. This service means that individuals’ email addresses are not published on the website.
Using the Forum
As with other website Forum services, members are asked to follow a code of conduct which includes ensuring safe use of the internet. Please see below and the welcome post in the forum.
Suggestions/comments/queries for website editor
All offers of articles, photos etc will be very welcome – please send to website editor Olwyn Hocking via Member messaging.
Gardeners Forum
This is a copy of the guidance provided in the Gardeners’ Forum, a plotholders-only space for the discussion of all matters horticultural. All plotholders are asked to follow some basic and obvious rules. If in doubt about your post, please check with the website editor first.
Purposes of the forum
- Please stick to topic – start a new thread for a new subject
- Take care to post links to other sites only where you are sure as far as is reasonably possible that they are genuine
- Stick to topics and discussion which are relevant to gardening, and allotment gardening in particular.
Personal information
- Do not post personal information relating to yourself or other people, for example, email addresses or telephone numbers.
- Reminder that the website plotholder messaging service means you can make direct contact – there is no need to use the Forum if you are contacting another plotholder.
Code of Conduct
- Please be polite and respectful
- Do not include content that is libellous, threatening, harassing or defamatory
- Do not swear or post any content that might offend common standards of decency
- Do not post or promote content that is critical of people on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability
- Do not violate copyright in your posts
- Do not promote products or services in which you have a personal interest without declaring the interest.
Any concerns about breaches should be raised with the website editor so that the post can be reviewed and if necessary removed.
REMINDER: Viewing and logging into the Stotes Hall Allotment Gardens website
Using your computer, tablet or internet connected phone, please go to https://stotes-hall-allotment.org.uk . This gives you a public view of the society’s website.
As a member (plot holder) you have been given a user account for the website. This enables you to view content which is not publicly available, to make Forum posts and to comment on certain website content.
To log in, please go to the bottom right of the page and click on Log in. Please enter your user name:
[First name Last name]
and password:
[Password]
and click/tap on Log in.
If your web browser offers to save your password, please allow this if you are using a computer account which is only accessible to you.
At the next page, showing your user name, please click on Edit and enter the above password in the first box. Now, please change your password to something only you know. Please do not use a password you already use for other online accounts, particularly ones involving financial transactions or sensitive personal information. If you’ve saved the original password to your browser, it should update it. If you forget your password, recovery is automated with a one-time log in provided by email.
Please do not change your user name, other than minor changes of first name, for example, Sue for Susan or Joe for Joseph. It is important to the integrity of the site that your identity is plain to other members.
Please click on ‘Home’ to go to the site’s front page. You will notice that you see more items and a slightly different layout to the public (anonymous) view of the site. This is mainly because some items of website content are only published to members and because when you are logged in, you have access to the Gardeners Forum, where you can reply to topics and post new ones. You can also comment on website content where comments are enabled.
The website’s layout responds to the type of device you are using. Particularly, the left and right hand columns shown on a standard computer screen, which has a landscape orientation, move to the bottom of the screen when you are using a phone or tablet in portrait orientation.
It’s fine to stay logged in, provided your computer, tablet or phone account is secure. In fact, to get the most out of the website it’s best to be logged in.
If you run into any technical or navigational issues which you cannot resolve, please contact Tim Robinson who will help.
- Log in to post comments