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HISTORY OF WEST END ONLINE
In mid 2000, I joined Classmates.com to locate some of my old
high school friends. Shortly thereafter, I polled all listed classmates
regarding their interest in a 40th reunion and the answer was a resounding yes.
In her reply, Kay
Tyler mentioned that she organized the Birmingham 'Magic City Boppers' dance
club, so I asked if she would help with a class reunion to be held in
2001. Kay accepted and the rest is history. We decided that a website would be the easiest way to keep classmates informed
about reunion plans. I built a basic web site with just two pages and West End Online went live
on February 25, 2001. As word spread, I began to receive many
emails and photos, so I added feature pages and began
posting photos. By week 28, we
had over 20,000 site visits. Since 2001, we have held
4 class reunions and 5 class
picnics.
In
2004, the marketing director of Classmates.com
contacted us and said that WEO was the largest
dedicated high school reunion website site
they had seen and was surely the largest on the internet. WEO has since more than doubled
in size, so
the same likely holds true today.
WEB SITE RENDERING
West End Online was
built in 2001 using Microsoft Frontpage, before smartphones and tablets. Frontpage coding enables pages to render properly on
personal computers. However, if you visit our site on a smartphone or tablet, you
may need to scroll to enlarge text and photos for viewing (not ideal, but it
suffices). To correct this, I would have to rebuild WEO from scratch with new software.
It would be a
daunting task to rebuild over 400 pages.
SITE
NAVIGATION & EMAIL ISSUES
Green
Links
- Recently updated pages.
Easy Access
- See Quick Links
for all WEO feature pages in one place.
Navigation
- To return here from any page, click on 'West
End
Online'
at the top.
Email link not working?
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Just
type in our email address and send it that way.
YOUR INFO AT
WEO
So that your classmate friends can reach you, be sure to
let us know if your
email or changes (or phone number, if you don't have email).
If you prefer to have your
contact information removed, let me know and I will delete it within a few
days.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
West End
Online has only one purpose, to bring WEHS classmates together. We will
not share your information, but
we cannot prevent
site visitors from copying
information, photos or email addresses. West
End Online is wholly owned and operated by me and has no
outside affiliations.
-
Cliff Walker - Class of '61
NO FORWARDING E-MAILS
Please do not email
or forward jokes,
stories, virus warnings, etc. If you typically forward to everyone in your address
book, please remove our email
address and email us from this site. Also, please do
not "reply to all" to our
emails or use information at West End Online
for any purpose other than the intent of this web site.
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Cliff Walker - 2024 |
HOW TO CONTACT ME
Please feel free to call, text, email or mail me if you need
help with West End Online, have comments, suggestions or to chat about
whatever is on your mind.
Email:
weonline@westendhigh.com
Phone:
h770-326-6226, c770-335-6877
(text ok)
Address:
If you have something you want to mail to me, call or email for my home
address.
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