The following points are provided by the CAA-NSW's web-clerk in order to help Members who wish to have a Member Profile page on the CAA's web site.  They also apply to Members who already have such a Page and who wish to renew it for another financial year, or to update the content of their Page at any time during the year.  They should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions set out on this web site.

Your Member Profile is intended to be a short description of your studio or company, who? what? when? where? etc, – expanding upon the basic contact details already provided in the Member Listings.  It helps give visitors to the web site a better feel for what your studio, service, or products could do for them to enhance their experience in hobby ceramics.  Please keep in mind that visitors to the CAA web site may range in expertise from complete newcomers to professional experts in this field.  The CAA-NSW Committee would like the web site to provide material of some help and interest for the complete spectrum of site visitors.  Your Member Profile is one such help.  (Incidentally, if you have ideas of what else could help make our web site useful - PLEASE send us an e-mail.)

Each Profile should only have one or two web pages and be no more than 200 Kilobytes in total size - including all graphics, photos and text. To limit the cost of operation, the CAA has restrictions on the total size of its web site and so, to cater for as many member profiles as possible - as well as have room for Annual Show details and photographs, this restriction had to be introduced.  If any current Profiles are larger than the 200 Kilobytes maximum the Web-clerk will work with the members concerned to reduce these Profiles in size. Usually it's too many photos that cause the problem.

Your Profile page is not intended to be a substitute for a web site for your company - just an overview only.  If you already have a web site - we can of course provide a link from your Profile page straight to your web site.  In exchange, we do ask that you provide a link from your site back to the CAA-NSW web site.  This will help the CAA organisation to get more exposure in the hobby ceramics community.

If you don't currently have a web site, a link can be added at any time in the future if you acquire one – just contact the web-clerk.

Your Profile will contain some text and probably some illustrations - either small photos or graphic illustrations.  Photographs and Graphic items are usually in colour and should be in either GIF or JPEG format.  They should be supplied at a resolution of no less than 72 dpi and at the correct size to fit on your proposed Profile page(s).  If possible, please supply all the information electronically on computer disk, CD-ROM, or via e-mail. Please provide a contact e-mail address too – one which you will not mind being published on the Profile page.

Keep in mind that the Profile web pages can be read by any "web-surfer' in the world (i.e. it's not limited to NSW) and that information on them ought to be kept up to date so as not to be misleading.  Please visit you own Profile information page at regular intervals to assess if it needs updating, and advise the web-clerk of any changes you require.

If any of these specifications cannot be met, please contact the web-clerk to discuss the matter and we'll do our best to accommodate your requirements. In general, if you supply what you have, the CAA Web-clerk will make best endeavours to massage it to suit Profile requirements. However, in such cases it will take a little longer to put your full Profile onto the CAA web site.

If you cannot supply your Profile information electronically, please send your information by fax or ordinary mail. Of course, photos for use on the web cannot be sent by fax.

In all cases, it would be very helpful if you could also send a sketch of how you would like the Profile page(s) to be laid out, and what colour scheme you would prefer. The current Web-clerk is not a Graphic Design wizz - far from it - and needs all the help he can get! Also, have in mind that publishing on the web is not as good as printed material and the results can appear different for different users depending on what computer and software they are using. Colours and fonts cannot be guaranteed to appear the same as you wanted them. In general, keep the number of fonts to a minimum and - if you really must have a fancy font - create the text in that font on your own computer and then turn the whole thing into a JPEG image.

Thank you. We hope you find these guidelines helpful.

Please note: This information may be updated from time to time and you will either be informed via e-mail or by a note on the Home Page of this web site.


[ This document was last updated on 10 May 2006 ]