Anatomy of a Website
What goes on behind what you see
The primary purpose of a website is to transmit information from one entity to another. In the case of a running club, the club directors want to inform the members, and other runners, about the club's activities.
People who are interested in running view the website to find out what races are being held, to see the results after an event, and hopefully see a picture of themsleves on the website. (If you wear your AIR singlet, you chances are greatly improved.)
Runners also like to spend time with other runners, going for a group run, attending a race, or attending a club social at which runners talk only about running.
You already know all of this but you may not know what is involved in putting a website together. Someone has to have sufficient time and knowledge to assemble the text and photos and create the code which displays the stuff on your computer display.
If you don't know what I mean by "code," click this page with your right mouse button and select the "View Source" option. What you will then be looking at is what's called HTML code which stands for Hyper-Text Markup Language. (When you are done, just close that window.)
If you scroll up to the very top of the source code, there is a message to you from the webmaster. You won't see that message on the actual web page because it is in the form of a "comment" which webmasters use to leave instructions for themselves and others about the page.
Unfortunately, computers don't understand English so the geniuses who developed computers came up with different languages that computers do understand. Anyway, all that gibberish on the page is instructions to the computer about where and how to display the text and images that make up the page.
Websites are much more interactive these days. That means that the viewers of a website can send e-mail to the webmaster so that he knows what the viewers like or dislike about the website. While we're on the subject, why don't you send an e-mail to Norm.