Here are a couple of notes on using the News pages. We hope you find them helpful.

The index page

The main news index page is the list of all the current news stories and the hub of all the news pages. At the moment we are working on the basis that the whole of one year is current but we may need to split it again if the page gets unwieldy. The stories are presented, in order of the date of posting, with the most recent at the top. You can scroll down and pick a story that interests you (each clickable title is followed by a very brief summary of the story content) and click Back or choose "News Index" in the header to return to the index page.

Red dots • indicate updated stories

A red dot like the one above, beside the date of a story, means that it has been substantially updated since it was first posted. This would mean new or significantly changed material, not just minor spelling corrections and the like. In some cases we are also listing these changed pages on the index page, so that readers can easily find their way back to the story.

External web links

Where possible, online stories are enhanced by adding a link to an external site of interest. In general, we try to link these so they open in the same browser window, as I find this more user-friendly, and your "Back" button will still work. However, where we know that the external site uses an immediate divert, and will prevent you from getting back easily, we try to avoid this problem by opening it in a new window.

We hope this is helpful and works alright for you. If you want to read more about it, please see the note in our Editorial Musings. If you get into problems with it and just want to be sent the email address in plain text, just let us know. Contact info is at the bottom of this page.

Archives

Archive page from 1999 (link)

There are superb news archives on the site going back to 1998 and beyond. Well worth a look, they need a tiny bit of attention giving to their navigation. The principal issue you should note is that at the moment clicking "Headlines" from any archived story takes you back to the current news index page, not, as you might think, the news index for the archive you are in. This is a byproduct of the archiving process and can be fixed. Having noted this minor flaw, please take a look around in them as they contain some great stuff.

Comments

If you have any comments on the news pages, or questions about their use, I would love to hear from you. Please send your comments to news@trumpetguild.org.

written by Neville Young

updated by Amanda Pepping

See also:
News editors' welcome note