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A brief history of the Tower Theatre web site
The Tower web site was set up in the late 1990s by Jonathan Norris. It consisted of about 10 pages
comprising a brief history of the Company, details of current shows and some reviews
transcribed from the Company's in-house magazine, Noises Off.
Here's a couple of the original pages to give you a flavour of that first site :
At the end of 2001, more people got involved and we had some professional help to redesign the site.
We were given a first class set of page templates and graphics, which are still largely in use today.
The number of pages increased to give more information about current shows, and we started
including details of auditions and social events. As the Company's photographs were now usually taken on digital cameras
we were able to include many more higher-quality photos.
The next development was to transfer details of all our programme archive on to the web.
This major undertaking took two years, from 2003 to 2004. A web page was created for each one of our 1400+ productions.
Programme details were typed (a mammoth task undertaken by Barbara Waddell),
a suitable photo selected and scanned, and the web page was
formatted.
In 2006, Laurence Tuerk devised our online box office system, using secure links to our ISP and an encryption system for credit card information.
This has slowly been taken up by our customers, and now a large number of bookings are
taken this way, as well as Membership Applications and Renewals.
We're always happy to hear from you, whether it's a comment on the existing site
or a suggestion for a new feature. And please do report any technical problems you are having -
we do try to check that our pages work on all major browsers and on a range of screen sizes, but
sometimes errors do slip through.
Speak to Laurence Tuerk, Roanne Insley,
Jonathan Norris or Ruth Sanderson who are all involved in running the site, or contact us at
editor@towertheatre.org.uk.
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