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Please read the disclaimer

In the UK, if in any doubt about any swimming issues, please contact the ASA for legal or technical advice. This page describes the Halton Swimming Club Website, the first club on Merseyside to implement a "joomla system". The meaning of joomla is "all together"; an apt title for open source software that also represents the philosopy of Halton Swimming Club and the swimming community. At any time, Click on the Home in the left table section, to go back to the start or move the mouse over the page until you see a hand or arrow, then click the mouse button. Joomla is "open source" software and many of the modules are free and freely available from joomla.org. Some of the images have been generated in Gimp another open source free graphics program.

The selection of joomla allows for inclusivity, expansion, integration and development and demonstrates that the club's continued provision of quality training is matched by its overall social responsibility. The club would like to thank Carl Thomas for his previous work in the design of earlier pages and for the provision of some of the content and to Dave Hunt and Carl for their involvement.

Abusive comments or verbal bullying on any of the forums will not be tolerated and will result in site registration being withdrawn.

The site statistics of the first complete 5 months of visitors dated 3/June/07

This site works best using Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Firefox is a fast browser that can be freely downloaded and installed from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Included Joomla site functions.

Fireboard Forum Online. Members only write, open user read

Community Builder (Automatically emails and links users)

Phoca Gallery

Hy-Tek Time database (members only)

Endurance log (members only)

Google map to training facilities

Joomap site map

Cool News Scrolling function

Template is Ocean Waves

Jhackguard security

Lazy Backup2

Joomla Auto update

Simple Image Rotator

Google Auto Language translator

Joomla passphrase login protection (passphrase available on request)

Web mesenger

Users can link to each other through the site (restricting email and contact by choice)

Please Submit photos for inclusion with the proviso that:

Club photos involving children should be either head shots, group photos, action photos or the preferred method, which is proudly wearing their Halton tracksuit.  Halton members at galas should always ensure that they register their camera before taking photographs. Once uploaded, photos become the property of Haltonsc and therefore subject to copyright. All Members and helpers should read the Code of Conduct documentation

Do not visit any pages pretending to be haltonsc other than this official site

Beware a  previous site address, now defunct, on a google link shown as haltonsc at supanet has a particulaly nasty trojan virus that infects I.Explorer

Current Secretary is Carol Hughes

Super Administrator and Webmaster for last 10 years is R.J.Jude

Comments to webmaster or secretary please.