Category: website-update

We have updated our meetings page with the 2021/2022 speaker programme. A decision will be announced shortly regarding whether will we resume the monthly meetings in person in Seend, or remain with online meetings only via Zoom. Please keep checking this website and public facebook page for further updates that will be made ahead of the September meeting.

Thanks again goes to Peter Chappell for volunteering his time in organising the speakers for the society.

As of today the society is delighted to introduce a new online system which will manage our memberships and the associated payments. The system is provided by a third-party service called Membermojo.

So, how to join the society for the current “season” which runs to 31st August 2021.

• Click “Membership” on the top menu, or follow https://wasnet.org.uk/membership/, which redirects to the membermojo page
• Click “Join/Renew” button.
• Complete the basic forms (name, email address). We do not hold or want to hold any further details. No bank account information is held by us, that’s handled by a third-party for a fee.
• Select the membership type. Currently there is only a single “annual” membership. NOTE further types of membership options will be added.
• Select a payment method. For “online” options, you can use any card (credit/debit) or use your personal paypal account if you have one. Alternatively, select “OFFLINE” and I will seperately email you with BACS details or where to send a cheque. Using on online method does mean less work we understand if you’d cannot or would prefer an offline method.
• Then, you should receive an email confirming membership and that will expire on 31st August 2021 (membership fees are not pro-rated). You should receive an alert before that as a reminder too.

Thanks in advance for your patience and we’d welcome any feedback.

Hi everyone. After taking some time to run through tutorials on how to build a website, today is the “soft” release of the updated Wiltshire Astronomical Society website. As you can see it is fairly basic at the moment (“minimal” as the web-designers put it!) but I hope to add images and more content over time, but this is a start.

Remember, we have an active public Facebook page (link) which provides a good place to engage with the society, as well as our members Facebook group too (link).

Some new features …

• A Contact Us form for enquires. This is better than exposing email addresses on the website.
• Details on up coming and past meetings. I hope to include a full back catalogue of newsletters. This is on the todo list. I want to improve the layout of the page to make it more readable, so please bear with me.
• Details on the Observing Sessions, including a sign-up form for subscribing to our observing mailing list. This should make it easier to come along to our popular observing sessions.

On the to do list …

• Add some much needed images on the website. I’m working on this!
• Add an Outreach page, providing information on our outreach activities and how educators can get in touch.
• Add a Resources page with links to related astronomy content.
• Get feedback from our members on improvements and additional content they would like on the website! Use the “Contact Us” page (link)

Thanks for the support so far.
Sam