Web
Hosting for CyberPlace
Canterbury
Plain Communications
Plain Communications is a commercial Internet Service
Provider and has been operating in Christchurch since
1994. In
addition to operating CyberMall New Zealand (for commercial
hosting), Plain Communications is the principal sponsor
of CyberPlace Canterbury, which serves to promote the
interests of community groups, and other not-for-profit
organisations, by providing the opportunity for them to
gain a presence on the World Wide Web (WWW) through a Web
page (or pages).
This is a free service!
CyberPlace Canterbury
CyberPlace
Canterbury is an on-line resource site created
specifically for this purpose, and it currently hosts
Web-pages on behalf of local community groups, trusts,
services, government departments, aid organisations,
protest groups, educational facilities, and environmental
groups for the purposes of information dissemination,
public profile, and networking.
CyberPlace Canterbury is
divided into the four following categories :
1. Community
2. Education
3. Environment
4. Peace
Within these there can be subcategories, such as the Christchurch Community Directory - Agencies Index (under 'Community') which then branches into five subcategories of it's own.
| What We Need From You | ||
| 1. Information | - | who you are and what you do; what services you offer. |
| - | how
to contact you: including physical address,
postal address, telephone, fax, and e-mail
address. If you are interested in an e-mail service with us please read this information. |
|
| - | you may wish to include: your mission statement if you have one, organisational history, personnel details, anything you want other people to know about. | |
| - | are there other organisations or groups that have a Web-page you would like to be linked to/from? | |
| 2. Graphics | - | this is important as the Web is a visual medium and graphical content can greatly enhance the impact of your page. Bear in mind that there is a limit to your overall server space allocation (see below) and graphics take up the most space, so you will need to keep their individual file sizes to a minimum. We can advise on this. |
| - | you may wish to include your logo and/or relevant photographs. | |
| 3. Updates | - | keep your site up to date with any changes that occur, or that you wish to make. As this is a free service, the onus is on you to provide us with this information, either by e-mail or on floppy disk by mail. |
Additional Information
- Your site will be hosted at a directory under the CyberPlace Canterbury domain, for example http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/yourname/
- Your site will be restricted to 200kb maximum total file size and we can advise you what size your site is at any given time.
- We are happy to
advise you on design, and can design the page
ourselves if you wish, on an advance booking
basis. However we prefer and encourage you to do
as much as possible yourself, as it saves time
for us and means you have the fun of creating
your own page. We have some links available for
learning HTML at http://www.chch.planet.org.nz/webinfo.html, and there is a
good choice of beginner (also text-based and
advanced) HTML editors at the New Zealand Tucows
download site at http://tucows.ix.net.nz/htmlbeginner95.html
Note that Magic Site Wizard is freeware. - Files, including graphics, can be sent by email attachment to web@canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz or on floppy disk to the postal address below.
- The free service does not include Web promotion. It is strongly advised that you submit your site to the many search engines available yourself. A list of the main ones can be found at our WWW Search page at http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/search.html
- It is required that
you include your URL (Website address) on any
self-promoting material, letterhead, and email
signatures. We would appreciate a copy
of such promotional material.
- It is required that you place a graphical link back to CyberPlace Canterbury on every hosted page, so every visitor to your page is a potential visitor to the rest of the pages in CyberPlace Canterbury (and vice versa). You can do this by adding the following code anywhere on your main page:
- It is required that you place a graphical link back to CyberPlace Canterbury on every hosted page, so every visitor to your page is a potential visitor to the rest of the pages in CyberPlace Canterbury (and vice versa). You can do this by adding the following code anywhere on your main page:
<p>
<a href="http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/">
<img src="http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/cyber.img/cyber-trans.gif"
alt="CyberPlace" border="0" width="104" height="80">
</a>
</p>
Plain Communications reserves the right to refuse access to this service, and will not publish any offensive material.
Email-Only Accounts
Email-only accounts are available for organisations
listed in CyberPlace Canterbury, with subs at the cost of
$4.50 (incl GST) per month payable in advance. You can
also pay annually in advance with a 10% discount on subs
at $48.60 (incl GST). This does not include installation
($30) or volume and time charges.
Volume Charges
Peak Time (7am-11pm):
$2.40 per megabyte International
$$1.20 per megabyte National
Volume Charges
Off Peak Time (11pm-7am):
$1.20 per megabyte International
$0.64 per megabyte National
Time Charges:
$0.005 per minute
For further
information on this and other accounts please contact:
accounts@plain.co.nz
or visit the CyberXpress home page
| Contact: | Email: | enquiries@canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz | |
| Tel: | 03 364 5888 | ||
| Fax: | 03 364 5828 | ||
| Post: | CyberPlace Canterbury PO Box 7578 Christchurch |