Middlesbrough Mencap & Gateway
put their newsletter on-line

Starting with the August 2000 Mencap Newsletter, we are making our regular paper publications available on the web.
Unlike the rest of this site, they have been created by the DTP program we use to make the paper publication.
The result is in HTML 4.0 and makes full use of the positioning capabilities of that revision.
It looks great on the computer it was designed on J
An unfortunate side-effect is that browsers that don't handle HTML 4 well get a somewhat garbled display. However all this text is there, so for this issue(August) at least, we are going with it.
The October issue was hand-coded - no nasty overlaps, works in any resolution, and (I hope) any browser.

Well, it's February 2001 now, and still only two newsletters have been put on-line. The trouble is, what looks good on an A4 page is a mess on a computer screen! So by the time I've got round to making a web version, a lot of stuff is out of date, and anyway the people that it's aimed at have already got their own paper copy.
So we're skipping ahead a bit, and missing some stuff out.
(Jono and Chris - that's why the September issue hasn't arrived yet)

D-Day 2001 and another newsletter goes online, less than a month after it was printed. Will such efficiency continue?

January 2002 - We've got an updated DTP program, so we tried the web publishing option again. It's quick, but I can see there being problems.

December 2002 - There were problems. No more newsletters will be going online as such. Suitable stories will be added to the site in their own right. Stories of limited interest, like closure dates, competitions, birthdays, will be on paper only.

Middlesbrough Mencap Newsletters

  • August 2000
  • October 2000
  • May 2001

    • Middlesbrough Gateway Magazines

  • Christmas 2000 - Well the front cover anyway
  • January 2001
  • February 2002 - Xmas Party 2001 - A massive centre page spread

    • Some past lead articles from the web site

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