Answers to some of the specific comments from the feedback survey

Please note that this blog was targeted at those individuals that had asked to be included in the mailing that used to be sent out each week by the neighbourhood forum support officer, we made the decision to try using a blog instead of a weekly email to allow an archive of information and useful links to be built up.  We have started to direct interested residents to the blog since.

To navigate around the site there are several options, you can use the LABELS on the left hand side which allow you to choose a theme of articles to read by clicking on a keyword (the size of the keyword shows the relative number of articles in that group), or the BLOG ARCHIVE where you can click on the year followed by the month to view the titles of the articles published that month. You can then click on the article you wish to read.  Clicking on the tabs underneath the “Neighbourhood Forum Update” title (Home, Planning application summaries, etc.) will take you to the page of that specific information or return you to the home page.   On the home page you can read articles in order by scrolling down the screen until you get to the calendar where you will have the option of returning  ‘Home’ or reading ‘Older Posts’, once you have moved off the home page you will also have the option of viewing ‘Newer Posts’ to go back again.  Larger articles have been split so that there is not too much information on the screen, if you are interested in a particular article just click on ‘read more’ to open the rest of the article.

To change the size of the font you will have to use the view feature on your web browser (once you click on the view tab it will say something like zoom or text size) it should allow you to change the font size.

If you would like to submit an article for inclusion on the blog please email neighourhood.forums@portsmouthcc.gov.uk  with blog article as the subject.

A couple of people said they would be interested in a blog for their forum so we will be following up how best to support them with that.

Only one person wanted a beginners session on blogs, so we will not be organising a course at this time but will be supporting on an individual level.

To make use of the calendar, the top bar has several buttons
 

on the left the Today button will always get you back to today’s page, the two arrow buttons will move you backwards and forwards through the calendar and clicking on the name of the month will open a small calendar that can be used to jump to the day you are interested in, on the right hand side you can choose how you view the calendar, either weekly, monthly or as a list, the print button allows you to produce a printed version of the calendar (if you have a printer).  To use the bottom of the calendar just click on the item you are interested in and a balloon with more details will be available, you can then click on the ‘(map)’, ‘more details’ and ‘copy to my calendar’ options that will open a map of the venue, give you any more details that are available or copy the event/item into your google calendar, if you have one.

Unfortunately the blog is not able to handle a discussion forum for swapping ideas very well, so we are looking at other services that could help us to do so.

We have included a link on the right hand side to Police.uk, the local crime and policing website for England and Wales which has helpful information about crime and policing in your area.

If you have any more queries or suggestions please contact neighourhood.forums@portsmouthcc.gov.uk  with blog query as the subject.

If you no longer wish to be notified of updates to the blog please email neighourhood.forums@portsmouthcc.gov.uk  with blog unsubscribe as the subject.