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Who runs this siteThe short answer is one person in Melbourne/Sydney, Austalia. This site is created by a graduated 'Masters by Research' student Carolena Helderman as part of a Masters by project taken at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. Created is defined in design, concept, managment and maintenance of the HIV/AIDS Positive Stories site. All stories and material are copyright to the authors and they are a big part in creating this site. About the siteIt has now been over 10 years since l decided to start my Masters at RMIT and create a project based on HIV and AIDS. Many things have changed in that time from HIV/AIDS itself to how technology and the Web has changed.Initially this project was to be on CD Rom with a very different idea in mind. I'm very glad that l chose for it to be online as one of the most rewarding things and which gives me a drive to keep it going, is your response via email and the many stories which have been sent. In 2004 a new part of the site was added. Thanks to an organisation in Australia called AusShowbiz, l received a grant to create a section targeted at youth. So many teens and youth visit this site and l thought it appropriate to add a Quiz section which will hopefully teach you more about HIV and AIDS. When l ran a survey on the site, so many of you said that you wanted to see a Quiz on the site. The site gets over
a half of a million hits per month which averages between 22,000 - 32,000
visitors per month. Email the authorsSince December 2003 authors of the stories have the option to add their Email address and you can then contact them personally. During December and January l will set about contacting all past authors to give them the oportunity to also add their Email address to their stories.My long term goal is allow you to give feedback at the end of the stories so you can see what other readers have to say and the authors can also see what you have to say. This may happen using a content management system and work will start on this from May 2009. The site in 2009 - ten years onMaintained far less than when l was studying but it has had a code update in 2009, nothing that you will notice. Have moved the entire site to u new URL. This is due to a couple of things and had been put off for many years. Plans for latter 2009, re-do the entire site using Joomla or Drupal. This gives me an extra skill but l believe it will allow people to wite commets after the stories and l've wanted that to be the case since this site began. Thanks for your visit and keep coming back to read real stories about HIV and AIDS. Carolena Helderman |
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