1. Peter Roberts Webmaster Hertford & District U3A 17/06/2016

2.  Non Sitebuilder Websites  Joomla sites  WordPress sites  Joomla Core Features  Advantages and Disadvantages  Hertford & District U3A Website Features  Interactions  Essential tools  Hacking Protection  Using Images on Websites

3.  Buntingford Buntingford  Chess Valley Chess Valley  Dacorum Dacorum  Dunstable Dunstable  Hertford & District Hertford & District  Lea Valley Lea Valley  SW Herts SW Herts  Ware Ware  Watford & District Watford & District  Welwyn Hatfield Welwyn Hatfield  Wheathampstead Wheathampstead Just 11 out of 38

4.  National Website National Website  Sheffield ? Sheffield  Test Villages Test Villages  Horsley ? Horsley  Upholland Upholland  Wyre Forest Wyre Forest  Several in Australia  Darwin Darwin  Network Victoria Network Victoria

5.  Faringdon and District Faringdon and District  West Wilts West Wilts  Malvern Malvern  Aylesbury Vale Aylesbury Vale  Risborough and District Risborough and District  Downe Downe  Sandbach and District Sandbach and District

6. https://www.joomla.org/

12.  Well supported  Easy Upgrades  Integrated Help System  Media Manager  Content Management  Nested categorization  Frontend Editing  Menu Manager  Powerful Extensibility  Access Control

13.  Very flexible – can design and shape it anyway you want  Choice of templates  Image gallery options  Event calendar options  Directory options  Menu options  Enables copy of website on personal computer

14.  Requires more expertise (but not that much)  Small annual cost  £29.50 for hosting  £6.00 for domain name

15.  Content (Articles)  Images and weblinks  Latest News (automatic update)  Slide Show  Slider  Events Calendar  Calendar (automatic update)  Upcoming Events (automatic update)  Gallery  Categories  Slide Shows website

16. WEBSITE hertfordu3a.org.uk FRONTEND (Public) BACKEND (Admin) HOST handmadepages.co.uk Also provides email addressing and bulk email transmission BACKUP Local Host Also enables experimentation

17.  XAMPP  a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends – used to keep copy of website on personal computer and to test backup files.Apache Friends  FTP  File Transfer Protocol software by FileZilla – used to transfer backup files from host to personal computer.FileZilla  Image Editing  e.g. Photoshop or Picasa – used for enhancing and resizing images

18.  Lots of advice available. For example:  http://www.creativebloq.com/web- design/website-security-tips-protect-your-site- 7122853 http://www.creativebloq.com/web- design/website-security-tips-protect-your-site- 7122853  https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/241620 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/241620  Most important  KEEP SOFTWARE UP TO DATE  MAINTAIN REGULAR BACKUP  Use a protection plugin (jHackGuard )jHackGuard

19. U3A Secretary Communication December 2015 URGENT - Photographs on U3A websites Recently several U3As have been approached by an organisation called LCS (Licence Compliance Services) because they have published photographs which are protected by copyright on their U3A websites, without permission to do so.Licence Compliance Services As a result a financial penalty has been applied to cover the unauthorised use of the photograph(s). So please ask your webmaster to check your websites and if you are in any doubt whether you can use a particular photograph remove it. Regards from, Lin Jonas Company Secretary.

20.  Use of an image without a valid license is considered copyright infringement in violation of copyright laws.  Don't copy and paste images found by Google Search  Use own images or members images (with permission)  Use images from safe providers such as: pixabay freedigitalphotos

21.  Webmaster - Peter Roberts  Webassistant – Liz Cooper  Both “Super Users”