ESSEX BRIDGE CLUBS - 'MINI' WEBSITES - GUIDELINES

This page outlines the parameters and options available for those "mini" websites maintained by Theo Todman.

Many - now most - bridge clubs in Essex have their own websites.

• The ones known to the Essex County Bridge Association (ECBA) can be found by following this link.
• All things considered, it is best for even small clubs to maintain their own sites - preferably using Bridgewebs or Pianola, which offer a cheap and easy solution with rich functionality.
• But it may be that some clubs don’t have anyone willing to run a website, or can't yet see the benefit of having one.
• Also - sadly - some clubs have demised and their websites have been terminated.
• So ...

While I was the ECBA webmaster, I provided free of charge as a public duty EACH OF THESE MINI-WEBSITES (see also this Mountnessing-related Archive Site) which use results that had been previously published and were therefore in the public domain, and show ...

• Club details, logo, and a couple of anouncements
• Historical results as scored,
• Individual Combined, Men's & Ladies' and Partnership ladders sequenced by average %age,
• Quarterly & Monthly Partnership ladders sequenced by average %age,
• Individual Master Point ladders sequenced by total LPs,
• Multi-session Club Championships where held,
• Year-on-year Individual "Improvers" ladders,
• Individual Handicap tournaments,
• First-time winners lists,
• 70s Club,
• Club Blog,
• Attendance List by Year.

The ladders link directly to the results for the sessions, from %age-lists in descending order. Butler Pairs and Teams events in the Pairs Ladders use cross-IMP scoring as per the NGS.

Parameters allow for:-

• Exclusion of specified individuals from ladders (for privacy reasons),
• Truncation of ladders below a certain average %age or number of players,
• Ladders or championships based on “best x” sessions (the %ages of sessions discounted are scored through), and
• Selection of the start-month for the club year.
• You don't have to have Ladders or Championships - if you just want a results archive that's fine.

In July 2017 I temporarily gave up playing bridge in order to focus on other things. When I returned to bridge, I didn't continue to maintain these sites. Consequently, these sites - from the end of 2017 - were no longer been maintained. However, as of June 2023, I am now willing to take them on again where the clubs still exist and have not moved on to Bridgewebs.

These sites were generated automatically so - once the computer code had been written - didn't take up much of my time to keep up to date. But:-

• If anyone finds anything wrong, please let me know and I'll do what I can to fix the problem.
• A frequent issue is the mis-spelling of names, so that the same individual appears more than once in a ladder. I have ways of fixing this, and of alerting me to the situation, but I may not have always spotted that this has happened. So, tell me if it did.
• These sites were offered on a "best endeavours" basis. I did not promise to live for ever or pass their maintenance on to my children. Indeed, I did not promise not to give up on the game altogether.
• If I hadn't received your results, I couldn't use them in the ladders or store them in the archive. If a week's results should have gone missing, they can be supplied retrospectively if they are to be found.