I have just found the mass email button on the site after my little tutorial this afternoon, so was going to send this out in one go rather than individually;

Hello,

We just wanted to keep everyone informed of a few changes and updates to the forum. We have added a few extras over the past few days, album and website buttons so that whoever is viewing the forum can see your work and website advertising material, even to non members. More security so that the auto join facility has been loaded back onto the site. If you click on a link this will now open in a new window so not taking people away from the forum and you can now load pictures from mobile devices with “Tapatalk” that is now usable with the forum and there is no need to resize pictures as we have added software so that the forum now does this automatically.


We are making the balloon forum http://www.balloonchat.co.uk an active member’s forum in a few weeks time. We have noticed that there are a lot of members who have still to post, some have been members for nearly 4 years and view the site regularly but as yet have not joined in. We are hoping they may like to join in on the forum and perhaps post now and again. The "how I got started" thread may be a good one to begin with?

start-twisting-entertaining.html

If anyone has forgotten their username/password or just needs a little guidance on how to use the forum then please just drop me a line and I’m very happy to help out,
graham@balloonchat.co.uk

The idea of the active forum is to encourage people to come on board and share in this exciting art form that we have,

We hope to hear from everyone soon as we are a very friendly bunch with balloon days happening all over the UK.

All details are on the event section,
events-balloon-magic-etc.html

P.S. Apologies if you are receiving this email for a second time but I have just found the mass email button on the forum to send to everyone in one go.
Sometimes life is so much easier than one thinks.

Graham Lee

We have had a major problem with the forum when the extra work was being carried out over the last couple of days the forum picture links all got corrupted and have had to be redone.
He was working on this all day,
I am not sure if things are fixed as my internet has been down for two days and it takes over 5mins for every page to load up and it's driving me nutty, still these things are sent to try us.

I have been informed that all the pictures posted in the last 4 days will all have to be uploaded again so if anyone has put pictures onto the forum lately could you please add them again to the site for completeness, many thanks.

Looks like my internet is back and up to speed, if anyone is looking around the forum and finds any posts with a broken link where a picture should be could you please send me the link to it so that we can get them sorted, thank you.
It looks like the majority of the pictures on the site have been sorted and things are again viewable.

The forum pictures got corrupted and then the back up system pictures also got corrupted, we back up the forum on my computer and then an external hard drive and also the hosting company make a back up every night as well. So although this seems like a belt and braces operation it certainly got us out of trouble and was well worth having all this in place.

Some pictures from the past four days may be missing so if you have posted a picture recently could you have a look to see if it's still showing and if not could you please load it again onto the forum, hopefully this is then panic over!

I have just sent a mass email out to every member on the forum, well I think I have as I have never used this section of the forum before.
Could one or two let me know if you have an email from the forum just so that I know that I have hit the right buttons.

yes Graham - I received the mailout from you.

I got it thanks.

Oh no Graham has discovered a new toy, duck every one
just kidding, Graham it will be a great tool
Colin

We have just had the first renewel for the club Hopefully the first of many.

As the site is getting a bit busier I have asked a couple of people to help out in the admin department, so apart from the usual suspects we have now got,
Darren, Nippy99 and Kevin, Phoenix helping out and keeping an eye on things.
So thanks to both for agreeing to help us out, although I am hoping we all plod along as usual and there is nothing for you to do.

Just updating the membership list as we are hoping that the BAG will get a little mention in a trade publication and one of the questions was how many members does the club have, we are up to 45. Membership renewal is also upon us from 1st April, a few have already joined to 2013 and we are keeping our fingers crossed that everyone re-joins.

Graham Lee, 001
Thelma Levett, 002
Danny The Idiot, 003
Natalie, 004
Roger, 005
Neil, 006
Dan, 007
Jason, 008
Ali, 009
Tony, 010
David Tan, 011
Darren, 012
Dave, 013
Frank Sweeney, 014
Amanda Smith, 015
Julie Hayward, 016
Olivia Post, 017
Ozzy D, 018
Russell Wells, 019
Jay, 020
Ian, 021
Royston, 022
Pam Pearce, 023
Paul pearce, 024
Neil Fairbrother, 025
Martin Bennett, 026
Dov Citron, 027
Emma, 028
Margaret, 029
Rachel, 030
Dave Kallos, 031
Anthony Gillard, 032
Lord Geoffery, 033
Phil Walker, 034
Dennis Dillinger, 035
Rod Hammond, 036
Julie Trafford, 037
Sarah Russell, 038
Joyce Sugden, 039
Rhian Beynon, 040
Steve Benton, 041
Adrian Hurley, 042
Anthony Davies, 043
Ade Bamigbabe, 044
Kevin Steadman, 045