Although HRAA newsletters have always been available on line, in the past they’ve been published as PDF files you can print as a single document. But it takes quite a bit of effort to format each newsletter so everything fits in neatly.
For this issue I’m trying something different… this newsletter has been prepared as a web site. Doing it this way makes it much faster to prepare since there’s none of the pinching and squeezing to get everything to fit exactly into a set number of complete pages. The text for each article is just pasted into its own page straight from the author’s copy and the newsletter can be as big or small as we want.
There’s only one HRAA member who doesn’t have access to the Internet, so a copy will be printed for that member. Everyone else has the choice of reading the newsletter on line or clicking the Print Friendly button at the foot of each article to produce a printer friendly copy to read later. You can even select not to print images if you want to economise on your printer cartridges.
Additionally members can add a comment at the foot of any article that everyone can see. Some articles might start up a string of discussion.
Please let me know what you think of the new format by casting your vote in the survey on the right.
Thanks, John
PS The new format also gives us the chance to easily survey views of HRAA members. Have you got an idea for a survey for the summer newsletter? If so just post a comment below.
John McKinnie
Secretary
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