The Totnesian calls itself a 'community magazine' for Totnes and Dartington, adjacent parishes in the county of Devon in England.Insofar as it 'contains' a sequence of pages, including a discussion forum, that are relevant to the Totnes and Dartington area, it succeeds in this ambition fairly well. I say 'contains' because - unusually - it is constructed using PHP rather than HTML and makes use of the 'include' tag for header and footer, while assembling all its content (barring external links) within the space between them, including a
neat local directory of businesses and
community groups. This unusual structure could be more widely adopted with advantage elsewhere on the web as an alternative to HTML 'framesets' that cause so many problems with semantic browsers.Aside from these technical considerations, this is an interesting
site that is easy to navigate,
contains useful information and a neat gallery of local pictures. There are
links that automatically search Google and eBay for local mentions, blogs and videos. With some more development and some more participation (few messages on the apparently recently-installed forum), this could become a great site for a thriving community.
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