Hi,

I would be intersested in the circumstances other Web masters work. Is it mainly done in our own time or do some people get time allocated when they can officially work on their pages?

I'm also a postdoc (a Royal Society Reseacrh Fellow) and I do most of the Bristol Web pages in my spare time. However, being the Webmaster is recognised as an official School of Chemistry admin 'duty', with similar status to being on a teaching-type committee. But no actual resources are given for the main web page (that's left to our computer centre to organise...). They did cover the costs of attending the London meeting, though, (but since it only cost 8.75 on the coach so it was a bargain, really :-) ). But I, too, have to scrounge around to find useful things to put on the web. We now advertise any job (postgrad, postdoc, etc) vacancies on the web page, and I've had a hard job persuading non-web colleagues to use even this *free* service... I recently put up our safety handbook, and all the Risk Assessment forms and COSHH forms that researchers have to fill in before they do any risky expts. That way they can download the appropriate forms when they need them, print them out, sign them and then send them to our safety officer with the minimum of hassle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may@bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)