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Heritage Lincolnshire is running an innovative approach to managing heritage at risk by training and supporting a network of volunteer 'heritage stewards' to complete surveys on Lincolnshire's heritage assets including historic buildings, places of worship, parks and gardens, conservation areas and archaeological sites. Project Officers Michael Knapton and Natalie Hamilton, together with some of our keen Heritage Stewards, will be writing a weekly blog on the Heritage at Risk project which will provide updates on the latest news and goings on, as well as offering an insight in to the day to day running of the project and the experiences of our Heritage Stewards.

Monday, 5 September 2011

Freshening up the Heritage site


We're now about half way through the project and have decided to freshen things up a bit by redeveloping the website. Apart from the general appearance of the website we will also be adding a few extra features that will hopefully make things a little easier for our volunteers (and us).

New features will include improved searchability on the Heritage Asset Map, easier editing of photo descriptions on the surveys, a new youth page and a new section on conservation areas. I think everybody will notice the change in appearance of the website - lots of bright colours to match the new leaflets that came out a few months ago.

Luckily, when we arrived, the current website was already up and running (thanks to Liz Bates and Denise Drury). Website development is something that is new to all the current members of staff. It's come as a bit of a shock over how much work goes into something that on paper seems so simple. But, we're getting there and hopefully in a few weeks we will have something that is better to look at and much easier to use. We'll let you know when it's all ready. Watch this space.

Michael, Heritage at Risk Project Officer

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