Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

How do the entries on your website work ? ....... e-mail on 17 February 2025

By e-mail 17 February 2025 from Stephen (Bristol, England, UK)

How do the entries on your website work ?

Douglas replies :

   Essentially there are two methods of adding / editing or deleting entries on the website.

   The main entry  is that what the viewer / reader will see when looking at the website.   That is

   The Home page (front page) is the first page you would see.

   At the top is usually an image / photograph simply to show roughly what type of items are on the website.   Some items from the past and present are also shown.

   At the top left-hand corner is "Search Events"

  This is the Search tool .... every entry on the website can be found by using this tool.

   Next tool is "Latest Entries"      This shows the latest 100 interesting / colourful / unusual / informative / news-worthy items which have been put onto the website.     NOTE that it is the latest 100 interesting ..... etc.  Of course these 100 items are also on the Search tool. 

Why 100 items ?

     A reader may only want to see the most interesting / colourful etc. items and may not want the commonplace ... example ... ship movements, changing berth and the like, so we decided upon the 100 interesting items which will constantly update. 

When 101-st item is added then the item at 100-th will drop off, so that only 100 items remain on the list.   The items which drop-off are still to be found on the Search Tool, and are certainly not lost into oblivion or cyber-space.

And there is the other method of adding / editing or deleting entries on the website.

   This is used by the site's Administrators and Moderators.      You will understand that these wonderfull and enthusiastic people can use a method which does not add items to "100 Latest Entries" .... for example, an Administrator in Australia has just added around thirty items of "Ships in Port at Melbourne, Australia in January 1962."   These 30 individual entries are on the "Search Tool" and can be found by using the ship's name or a Search-by-date.

Hope this clarifies the Entries / Events question.