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The place for information on Ross-on-Wye and the Wye Valley |
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ABOUT
WYENOT.COM
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Wyenot.com was created in May 2000 by Alan J. Wood with Tina Jones providing administrative support. The web site was designed to provide local information and news, and to promote local business and tourism in the town of Ross-on-Wye and the rest of the Wye Valley. It appears beyond any shadow of a doubt that this goal is being achieved. However, due to comments received from various sources, I wish to make it absolutely clear that Wyenot.com is wholly independent and is not working in conjunction with any other Ross-on-Wye promotional web site. Prior to forming Wyenot.com, Alan Wood had worked for the 'Ecclesiastical Insurance Office' since September 1970 at The Aldwych, London and, following a relocation to Ross-on-Wye in 1976, at their office in Gloucester. In 1984, Ecclesiastical Insurance bought Littledean Gaol in the Forest of Dean and between 1984 and 1991 Alan, ran the Print Department, located in the historic building. In 1991 he returned to the Gloucester Head Office, becoming involved in Graphic Design and PC Support then eventually before finally escaping, programming the company's new renewal system, using what must be the most horrible and next to useless programming language ever invented. |
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Individuality Individuality is a rare but valuable commodity and I sincerely hope that this web site stands out from the flock as being an original creation which is easy to navigate and not just a series of listings and links leading nowhere, amid a collection of plagiarized phrases. With a few rare (and credited) exceptions, all of the photography is my own and I have written the text. The site shows the town and local area as I see it personally. I have tried as much as possible to keep it unbiased, however I do find it far easier to make a web page about something or somewhere I genuinely enjoyed, rather than simply attended for the sake of taking a few photographs. Popularity Wyenot.com's popularity has grown tremendously over the years and the web site is currently averaging between 2,000 and 6,000 page views every day. If you prefer the term 'hits' (which is a term I do not personally like to use as one page view can generate many 'hits') the web site is currently averaging a half a million 'hits' per month. Web Site Funding Wyenot.com
receives no funding from either the Local or the County Councils
or from any of the local Tourist Resources. A few local businesses
however have gradually begun to support the web site by advertising
and to these (listed below) I am extremely grateful. I would also
like to thank Ross Rugby Football Club and Morris Bricknell for
their donations.
Finally, and very importantly . . . If you visit Ross-on-Wye or the Wye Valley in person as a result of seeing it here, or find the site useful in any other way, please spread the word, so that the local multitude may verily twig just how much business this site is bringing them - even if their name is not individually mentioned on a single page - and how much more it could bring them if it was! |
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find out how this web site can work for your Ross-on-Wye or other
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WyeNot.com
Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire. Contact
by E-mail. Tel: 01989 763217 Mobile: 0779 683 4077
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