Website Information
Welcome to the Gallica Squad Website. It is our intention to make your visit to the website interesting and useful and that you'll visit the website often. Up-to-date information about training and competition at Gallica can be found here. We welcome all feedback about the website and its contents and hope that Gallica swimmers and parents will contribute information and ideas to improve the site.

Each coach and squad representative have access to the noticeboard displayed on the home page, and will try to keep this area updated with details of training time/location changes and other short term news.

Various features of the website and how to contribute are described below. If you can't find what you're looking for here, let the website maintainer know and he'll try to sort something out.

Website Contributions
Rankings
Gallery
Profiles
Members Area
Website Contributions
Contributions to the website will be gratefully received. You might have a Gallica news story, or a link to a news story on another website. You may have photographs for the Gallica gallery or may be able to provide captions to some of the photos we already have.

You may be able to create a front-page banner for a specific Gallica event - currently the banner celebrates Gallica being the 2006 National Age Groups Winner, but you might want to create a banner for an upcoming Gallica Fast Water Meet or Presentation Evening or other event. The dimensions of the current banner are 371 pixels wide and 117 pixels high, though something close to these numbers would be ok. Before you start out, get in touch to find out preferred colour schemes, so your artwork blends in with the website.

Rankings
The rankings data held on this website is based on Gallica swimmers results from official licensed long course meets. We're developing a system to refresh the ranking information regularly, so you should see the rankings update as new information arrives.
Gallery
Please send in photographs if you see a relevant news story on the website. If you have a news story for the website then a photograph to go with the story would be excellent.

JPEG format is ideal, though we can manage with other formats as well. Larger and better quality pictures are ideal, though for the website gallery we usually reduce the image size to about 400 pixels on the longer edge.

Profiles
The intention is to create a new swimmer profile page each week to add to the website. If you're a swimmer your help in creating profiles is much appreciated and though you might have to wait a few weeks before your profile makes it to the website, once its there it will stay for good. If the information on your profile becomes out of date then you can update it using the members area.
Members Area
The members area allows you to keep an online record of your personal results. You'll have to contact us to get a username and initial password, but once you've got these you can enter your times and show your current PBs and a history of times for a particular stroke. There is also a printer friendly display which doesn't include the Gallica banner and button bar.

Also there is a 'Show raw results' link which will generate a page of raw data. You can right click with your mouse on this page and save the page with a file suffix of '.csv' (e.g. save the file as mydata.csv). Once you've saved this file then you should be able to open it with a spreadsheet program to get a local copy of all your results.

You can also update your profile data via the members area.

A guide to using the members area is here.

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