This Web site is for the community of Northern Moor, and residents are invited to publish news, ideas, blogs etc.

The site is not open for spam, and because of a recent avalanche of attempts by spammers to create accounts, I have today closed the automatic "create new account" feature. But this doesn't mean you can't have an account if you're a local person with something to say - just contact the site administrator using the "Contact" facility and we will create an account for you.

If you already have an account, your site access is unchanged, and I do encourage you to continue to post your news and views.

Tim Ingham
Site admin

3.30pm Sunday 12^th December

Wythenshawe Community Farm
Wythenshawe Park

Led by Churches Together in Wythenshawe
and Stockport Schools Brass Band
Free Entry and Refreshments.
Supported by Manchester City Council,
Parkway Green Housing Trust
and Churches Together in Wythenshawe

I've wanted to replace the existing NorthernMoor.Org Web site for ages - ideally to publish something that would enable users to contribute, and make the site really "live" with up-to-date information. But it also needed to be quite low-maintenance from our perspective; Delta Lights is a small business, and we can't spare the time to update it regularly on an ongoing basis.

There's loads of social networking site already on the Internet, and it would be possible to use one of those. Indeed there's already several Northern Moor groups on Facebook. But they don't really compare with the flexibility and power offered by having a dedicated site.

To get "up and running" quickly I needed to install a Content Management System (CMS), and I evaluated several before settling on Drupal. Most of the facilities offered on NorthernMoor.Org are provided "out of the box" with Drupal, although it did still take quite a while to set it up. There's plenty more work to do on the site, but it's OK for a "first cut".

I hope that all the clubs / societies / churches / groups in Northern Moor will add their details on the site, and if anyone wants to start a new group, I trust that this site will help them to do that.

Any comments about the site? Add them below.