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About This Site Some things that will help you use Saint Helena Island Info Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. Why is this site here? How do you get the best from it? Read on… Below: What is this site for? • How to use Saint Helena Island Info • Adverts • St Helena History • Material we have used • Site History and Updates • Who is ‘we’? • If you have a question • Beware of impostors! • ‘What the Saints did next…’ • Technical Information • Read More What is this site for? ∧Put simply, it aims to be a resource which documents St Helena, the island in the South Atlantic. We aim for it to cover everything you could possibly need to know about St Helena: past, present and future. That’s quite a challenge, and with information pages already on Saint Helena Island Info we feel we still have some way to go. Please note that it is our intention to address our subject in a light-hearted manner, while maintaing factual accuracy and honesty. How to use Saint Helena Island Info ∧If St Helena is new to you, perhaps because you stumbled on this site while looking for something else, start with our Where is St Helena? page, so that at least you know where we are, and then perhaps go to the Information Index page to begin exploring. If you’re new to Saint Helena Island Info, the best place to start is our Information Index page. This will show you how to navigate to the detail you seek. Or you could try the , or a randomly-selected one: TechnicalJavascriptPlease note that some features described on this page will only work if you have Javascript enabled in your browser. Please check your browser’s instructions. ‘Cookies’This site does not use ‘cookies’. Page StructurePages on Saint Helena Island Info follow a standard structure:
The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimetre bullet. Adverts ∧You will note that there are no adverts on this site. Unlike some other St Helena sites we do not need to sell you stuff to support http://sainthelenaisland.info/, our (few) costs are sponsored by the Moonbeams Shop. If you wish to reach the people of St Helena we suggest you contact our local media: Got a news story? Call (+290) 22727 or email news@sams.sh. Debate the island’s news on St Helena News & Travel. You will see the following on various Saint Helena Island Info pages. While technically this might be considered an advertisement we actually see this more as a service to anyone wanting to learn more about our extraordinary island. Saint Helena Island Info receives no income from any sales and takes no responsibility for any commercial arrangements into which you may enter. St Helena books from Miles Apart:Looking for St Helena books? Miles Apart - new and secondhand books on the South Atlantic Islands (list as at 12 December 2017) (160.9Kb).{3} St Helena History ∧
Several pages use information from the Records and from the island’s newspapers, which we have compiled into a database of items ranging from to . You can search our events database in various ways on our Chronology page. It is our intention to maintain and keep this database updated. Material we have used ∧Information is reproduced here for educational non-commercial use only; all copyrights are acknowledged. Information and images presented on this site are gleaned from sources too numerous to list, many on the Internet and all in the public domain. Acknowledgement is offered to:
If you think we have breached your copyright or used your copyrighted material without your permission please contact us. Site History and Updates ∧. Our normal pattern is to update http://sainthelenaisland.info/ weekly on a Friday morning, usually before 1pm GMT{4} When completed we announce these updates on our Facebook™ page and Twitter™ feed. After we update the site you may need to force your browser to refresh the page{5}!
This site was first registered on 1st July 2009. Initially the site had 19 pages, 11 of which were Island Detail pages, and 77 images. You can actually explore the June 2010 version of Saint Helena Island Info - click on the screen-shot (right). The current colours, layout and logo came in 2012, and by October 2012 the site was up to 35 pages (24 Island Detail pages) and 210 images. By the end of 2014 there were 87 pages (77 Island Detail pages); 28 downloads and 1,306 images, and the site has continued to grow steadily ever since. You can see what was added when. Saint Helena Island Info currently has . You can see which pages were updated in the most recent release. Who is ‘we’? ∧This site is edited by John Turner, who moved to St Helena with his family in 2005 and aims to stay here for the rest of his life! This site is sponsored by the Moonbeams Shop, selling locally-made souvenirs and personalised gifts in Jamestown, St Helena. We operate this site from the Moonbeams Shop in Napoleon Street, Jamestown.
We welcome callers, so if you want to visit in person, the map (left) should help. The editor, John Turner, is normally available 09:00-12:00h GMT, Mon-Fri. If you have a question ∧Feel free to contact us with your question, but perhaps we have already answerered it? Check our Frequently Asked Questions page for answers to many common questions we are asked about Saint Helena Island Info and about St Helena itself, including: Beware of impostors! ∧We are aware of other sites using similar URLs to ours, some of which also include out-of-date copies of our content and one has even stolen our images! They seem to exist purely to sell you stuff; we exist purely to provide accurate information about St Helena. There is nothing we can do to prevent these imitators; we just treat it as recognition that our site is the leading independent site about St Helena and is the one to copy! NB: These copycats may not be safe to use; often such sites download viruses or other malware to your computer. As long as you make sure you only visit sainthelenaisland.info and ignore the mimics you can be assured of the best information from a safe website. ‘What the Saints did next…’ ∧The history of St Helena and its people is continuing. This website can’t provide up-to-the-minute news, and there is no need for us to do so because reliable sources of St Helena news are readily available on the Internet: Got a news story? Call (+290) 22727 or email news@sams.sh. Debate the island’s news on St Helena News & Travel. Technical Information ∧Below: Standards Conformance • Encoding • Usability • Testing • Site Index • Error Page • Work In Progress • Site Maintenance Standards ConformanceThis site is sample-validated for conformance with the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. If you encounter any conformance issues please contact us. EncodingPages on this site are encoded in utf-8. UsabilityA minimum viewing window width of 1024 pixels is recommended for this site. This site uses Cascading Style Sheets. You can therefore control text size and colours using your web browser. Please refer to the documentation for your web browser for further information. Please contact us to report any usability problems, specifying as much technical information (OS, browser version, etc.) as possible. TestingPages are tested primarily using Google™ Chrome™ and Firefox™. Site IndexA full site index appears here. Error PageUnresolved URLs are directed here: Error Page Work In ProgressPlease note that some pages on this site may be under construction and that these pages may not yet work fully as advertised. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. We welcome feedback, so please contact us with your comments on our work so far. Images are limited to a maximum dimension of 2400 pixels (but maps are permitted to be larger). Site MaintenanceThis site was created and is maintained for us by Burgh House Software (part of Burgh House Limited), to whom all technical queries should be directed.Read More ∧More stories on our page Read articles about St Helena. Article: www.sthelena.seOur tribute to the original ‘website of St Helena’
In 1990 Radio St Helena did its first Radio St Helena Day short-wave broadcast to the world. And half-way across the world this broadcast reached an enthusiastic radio listener in Sweden by the name of John Ekwall. John was fascinated to hear live radio from St Helena, such a tiny speck in the vast South Atlantic Ocean. John’s fascination with St Helena had begun a while before and he had begun corresponding with the people at Radio St Helena. In 1992 he visited for the first time, and again in 1997. In addition to his radio listening activities John was also an ‘early adopter’ of the Internet. In 1996, with websites just beginning to spring up around the world but with the Internet still not generally available on St Helena, John decided that he would create the world’s first website about St Helena. And thus, later that year, www.sthelena.se was born. Initially much of the site was focussed on Radio St Helena and its annual short-wave transmissions but the site quickly grew into a comprehensive guide to the island. The site soon became known as ‘The website of St Helena’. John continued maintaining www.sthelena.se until around 2014 when other pressures got the better of him. He handed it over at the beginning of 2017. The site still exists but at the time of writing the content has been translated into Swedish and the English version has disappeared. We are told the English version should be back online later this year. Although much of the information is now out-of-date, the site remains of interest and in many respects is a fascinating snapshot of St Helena from the not-too distant past. This is the site as it was in late 1996: The site at the time of writing (in Swedish): Footnotes: {1} Reproduced for educational non-commercial use only; all copyrights are acknowledged. {2} Our Subject Index and Site Index pages may also be helpful. {3} NB: This is not an advertisement. {4} It can take 30-60 minutes to upload the updates because of St Helena’s slow Internet connection. Although we try to upload in a continuity-friendly manner, during this time you may experience issues accessing the site, for which we apologise. {5} PAGE-REFRESH EXPLAINED: to save Internet time most web-browsers maintain a ‘cache’ - a store of recently-viewed pages, images, etc. If you go back to a page you recently visited your browser will use a complicated algorithm to decide whether to use it’s stored page files, or get new ones from our Internet source. Obviously, if your browser decides to use its stored data, you will not see the updates we have made! On most systems you can force your browser to refresh its store from our servers by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key and pressing the key ‘F5’. Please see your browser’s instructions for more. • GOOGLE™ SITE SEARCH: |
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