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[Matt Pennington (Webmaster!) writes:] I've written this page to provide some information about the site, it's development and the technology behind it. Background The website you are now accessing is the second incarnation of the Oddballs online presence. The first site was developed by John Phipps using space provided by his personal Internet Service Provider. After discussions with John I took over at the beginning of 2004, and launched the current site. Technology The site is hosted by easily.co.uk. This company provides relatively affordable web site hosting mainly for small to medium size businesses, clubs etc. The domain name "www.epsomodballs.org" was also purchased from Easily. For those who are at all interested the site is built using HTML, PHP and CSS. PHP is a scripting language which I've used to develop all the interactive features of the site - for instance the facilities for committee members to add news items and update the race calendar themselves. In an attempt to save money the actual data entered using these mechanisms is held in simple tab separated text files. If the site continues to grow I'll probably convert to using a MySQL database again provided by Easily. Work in progress..! Developments fall into 3 main categories:
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