Welcome to the Web Team
The Web Team produces the Web site you see before you.
How to contact us
For all comments regarding this website, please write to webteam@hvhs.ac.nz. Warning: this address is read by a student!
It is not possible for student groups to respond officially to
correspondence through this website and any comments or feedback will be accepted purely
as commentary information. Anything else? See the school Contact
page.
How to join
Watch the daily notices. There could be something coming up. Otherwise, if you are
inclined, e-mail the Web Team (webteam@hvhs.ac.nz).
To be flexible with members other commitments, there are no regular meetings; the
Team meets as needed (with staff supervision), online or offline. Students
from all forms are welcome.
How it works
The HVHS web site in late 1999 underwent some major developments. Every page you see on
this site is now dynamically generated, so that it becomes aesthetically pleasing if
youre using Netscape or Internet Explorer. Viva la guerras del
browser!
Behind this new development were Active Server Pages. You may have noticed that the
pages on the site no longer have the .htm extension, but rather .asp. This is because ASP
pages allow programs to be run on our server, changing the pages so they become better.
In addition to that benefit, if we want to change the design of the site, we now only
have to change one template page which is a lot easier. (For example, the May 2000
addition of the image gallery to the site layout was easily
accomplished by modifying the template.)
The search function added (and disabled when it requires booting about) in
October 2000, coming from an idea floated over a coffee-milo-tea,
is a port of Netscapes Open Directory Project, or dmoz.org. Viva la altos niveles del cafeína!
The 1999 developments were written and programmed by the previous
webmaster, Arun Stephens (stephens.arun@hvhs.ac.nz).
That photo gallery
Oh, you mean the thing we conceived over purchases from the tuck shop and canteen? :) The image gallery (with ~110 photographs) to your
screens left was evolved from a popular random image script, which was kicked about
until it worked as hoped (after the copious mods by an unofficial member of the Team). All
photographs for the gallery were taken by the webmaster, Jonathan Ah Kit (ahkit.jonathan@hvhs.ac.nz).
It all started in late April, when someone played shutterbug around the
school to bring you photographs in very good taste of modern day school life as Term 2
2000 unfolded. Nearly a hundred photographs, ten floppies and several late nights with Jewels poetry
anthology a night without armour, CD audiobook edition, playing in the
background later, we now have a eclectic selection for you to view.
The first set of photographs were taken over three days at the end of
April and beginning of May 2000, and the second set of 41 were taken on Tuesday, 22 August
2000. There is a small third set of first decade reunion
photographs from October 2000 in rotation.
More are welcome. :)
The other stuff around here
Well, you could check out the Teams satire
pages, which presently only has the one satirised treatise on the title page instructions
of the Bursary English examination
(as well
as a banner ad we found).
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