Questions & answers on various topics

Using the website

How to enter a race?

Navigate to the Calendar. Hint: the calendar view from the road racing menu only shows ICC events.
Find the race you want to enter and click on the calendar entry.
Click on the "Online Entry" link. [This feature will be available soon]
It is intended to prompt for a contact number & emergency contact details if you have not made a record of these.

Subscribing to the Calendar

The calendar used is actually a Google calendar. If you use a calendar on your computer and want to subscribe to the calendars made available here you can do so. The following options are available.

ICC Events

Google calendar ID: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/illawarracc%40gmail.com/public/full
ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/illawarracc%40gmail.com/public/full.ics
HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=illawarracc%40gmail.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney

CNSW & National Races

Google calendar ID: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
XML: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/i6p3b798d0u2oh3n4f4cluplig%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full
ICAL: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/i6p3b798d0u2oh3n4f4cluplig%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full.ics
HTML: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=i6p3b798d0u2oh3n4f4cluplig%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney

What's with the menu items that you can't click on?

The website administrator is laying out a menu structure where content is planned. The menu items will be linked to content pages as they are developed. The purpose for this is to indicate what is planned for the website and to encourage involvement from members. If you would like to contribute or have comments or ideas please get in touch.

How to follow website updates?

When news, notices and results are added to the website there are currently 3 ways to discover these new articles.

By visiting the front page you will see headlines for all of the most recent News, Notices, Results. You will also see the next events on the club calendar.
You can use a syndicated news client such as Google Reader or Outlook to subscribe to an RSS 2.0 feed. An icon for this can be found at the bottom of the front page and in the address bar. Learn more about RSS web syndication on wikipedia.
You can follow the club on Twitter, article headlines with a link will be published as well as the occassional topical tweet. If you have a smart phone it is possible to configure some twitter clients to automatically alert on new tweets from selected uesrs.

There is no automated way to be notified of additions or updates to the other content pages. Just keep snooping about.

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For article publishers

My website article doesn't fit when displayed?

After you publish an article you should go and view it on the website to ensure it looks how you expected. Sometimse you find that the content runs off the right side of the web page and becomes hidden by the page border. This is because an element within your article is wider than the website template is designed to display. If the article contains pictures ensure they aren't displayed more than about 700 pixels wide. Similarly for tables, if you have cut and pasted from another document, the HTML code probably has "hard coded" width attributes that in total add up to wider than the website template will display. In any case feel free to contact the website administrator for assistance.