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Webwatch
January 2003
You will have noticed that the Association's website at www.itpsupport.org.uk now looks a little different.
The site design and maintenance has been taken over by Howard Anderson whose wife has ITP (and is doing fine). It was their determination to find out about ITP that led to the discovery of the association and the ways that it is able to help.
Whilst the site has been given a facelift and some new items added, much of the information is the same and is from the same authoritative sources. Many of the headings and menu items from John XXXXX's original site have been retained. As John has moved to New Zealand, everyday involvement in the website at a distance is harder, even with the wonders of email. Many thanks go to him for creating the site in the first place. The main differences are in the "look and feel" and site navigation. We hope you like it. One small point, until the main search engines get around to re-indexing the website, some search results will still show links to the old version. This problem should disappear very soon.
Can you trust what you find on the web?
This is a thorny question much discussed on the radio, tv and in
magazines. The answer is no different from the question, "Can you
trust what you read in books?". It depends on the knowledge and motivation
of the writer and to some extent on the publisher and is therefore not
a new problem. One can visit any library and find all sorts of daft or
unreliable "cures" for all the maladies you can think of. You
can find them on the net as well, but mixed in with these, are some authoritative
and trustworthy sites. Some sites are truly superb, making the web a very
rich source of help and advice. If you learn nothing else, you can find
out where to go to seek advice.
It is best to look hard at who publishes the information on the web and
who stands to benefit. Manufacturers will tell you their products are
wonderful, advice from well meaning but ill-informed people will most
likely to be a triumph of faith over experience. Information assembled
from extensive study and research is more likely to be of benefit.
A techie web search tip
If you are searching for a particular topic and feel it should be
on a given site, you can get the Google search engine to look in just
one site. For example, if you want to look for the word "child"
in the association website, try this in www.google.com. Start your web-browser
and get google's site on the screen. In the search box put
child site:www.itpsupport.org.uk
It should give you 6 hits, some obvious as they are in the childhood ITP section, but some not so obvious, as in the "MMR Update" section.
You can also search for phrases, just make sure the phrase in is quotes as in
"holiday insurance and travel guide" site:www.itpsupport.org.uk
This should point you straight to the page.
Happy surfing
Howard