Lochgelly Centre – Official Reopening (images)

The Lochgelly Centre was officially reopened on the 14th February 2012. As part of the celebration Lochgelly High School Brass Band and Choir were on hand to provide music throughout the ceremony. Councillor Brian Goodall cut the ribbon to mark the opening, and then an acrobatic performance was [...]

Mossmorran, will the incident on June 2011 be repeated?

On the 11th June 2011 at 3:10am, Mossmorran suffered an incident which resulted in excessive noise pollution, vibration and light pollution which caused one local to write a darkly comic doric poem, titled; ‘Dawn Chorus O Mossmorran‘. This article was the most commented article to ever appear on [...]

Questions concerning Little Raith Wind Farm

We had a meeting with the developer of Little Raith Wind Farm (Kennedy Renewables) and their PR/Political Lobbying group (Invicta PA) back in October. Unfortunately, most of our questions couldn’t be answered at the time, but the developer took note of the issues and concerns raised, and notified [...]

Local group under threat of closure

With the ongoing ‘austerity’ measures enforced on local authorities we have seen reduction in public services and quality of service as the local authorities try to juggle services to fit into tight budget limitations. The austerity measures have also had an impact on many local charity groups as [...]

Stop ACTA

The biggest tech news in America recently was the possible passing of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) which has currently been put on hold due to large scale online protests from groups, individuals and other corporations concerned that the act, which on the surface, is aimed at stopping File Sharing [...]

Is Wind The Answer?

Experts to debate in St Andrews Public information event organized by Cameron Community Council St Andrews Town Hall, 7.15pm 1st March 2012 Love them or loathe them, wind turbines are coming to Fife. From industrial-scale wind farms to back-garden turbines, Fife is facing a torrent of [...]

Lochgelly North School to improve the local environment

In celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee, the Lochgelly North Special School in partnership with the Woodland Trust have committed themselves to planting 61 trees in a bid to help regenerate and improve the local environment. Other groups committed to planting trees includes Foulford Primary [...]

Industrial Wind Farm for Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly

Attending the Lochgelly Community Council meeting, last night (08/02/12), we heard a presentation from Banks Renewables who are seeking to build 6 x 125 metre turbines in close proximity to the Lochore Meadows, Kelty, Cowdenbeath, Lumphinnans and Lochgelly communities. The developers stated that [...]

Website Design

Step 5 – Adding Functionality

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If you have been following my tutorials on creating a website you should now have a functioning bare bones site. It is now time to add some functionality to your site and take some precautionary steps to secure your site. What is your site about? Depending on what your site depends on the [...]

Step 4 – Adding Content

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Adding content to WordPress is very simple, as it uses a user interface that most people will recognise, especially if you are familiar with using word processing packages. When adding content there is two distinct features in WordPress that will decide in where you add your content, and this is [...]

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Step 3 – Installing a web site (Open Source)

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If you have followed the previous 2 articles on purchasing a domain name and web hosting, we are now ready to get a website online. We will be focusing this article on installing an Open Source script WordPress. WordPress is originally a blogging software to power a website, but as it has advanced, [...]

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Step 2 – Purchasing Web Space

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If you read our article Step 1 – Buying a Domain, you will now be ready to purchase some web space. Prices vary from web host to web host and depending on your needs, depends on what costs you are looking at. For these articles we are assuming that all you would be looking for is web space to host [...]

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Step 1 – Getting a Domain Name

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If you want a website but lack the technical knowledge to build one yourself or lack the funds to purchase the skills of a web designer, that is no probs, if you are willing to utilise Open Source Technologies. Over the next few weeks/months, we will be publishing articles giving a step by step [...]

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