Group Home Pages

Would your group like to have a page on www.aatoronto.org?

Pages are available to any group listed in the Intergroup meeting guide. The Website committee does not create pages for groups, so if you don't have a member who knows how to create a web page, this might be a good time to search for a tutorial. Just enter "HTML Tutorial" into your favorite search engine. Thankfully, creating a simple web page isn't all that hard. Most word processor programs can save a document as a web page, so if you know how to type a letter, you may be closer to creating a web page than you think.

The www.aatoronto.org web site has a limited amount of disk space and traffic transfer per month. In the interest of staying within our allotment, the total size of your web page (all files, including graphics) should be no more than 200 kilobytes. We recommend that you save your graphics in .jpg or .png formats rather than .gif, since they take less space. Each group should use a single web page. There is no limit to the number of graphics that you include on the page, so long as they do not exceed the overall size limit. Your page should only contain static content. This means that page counters, guest books, "contact me" email forms and the like are not supported

When submitting your page, the following information will help smooth the process along:

• Submit your group's page as a zipfile containing all of the content. Your .zip file should not contain multiple levels of subdirectories. Send the .zip file as an email attachment to webmaster@aatoronto.org
• If your group does not already have a page, your first submission should be accompanied by a note (e-mail is OK) from two trusted servants indicating which group member will be responsible for the maintenance of their group page
• Because page updates must be processed by the volunteers of the website committee, we ask that you make changes no more than once per month
• When submitting changes, please give us an entirely new copy of the website, including all graphics. Asking for specific parts of pages or single graphic files to be changed can be confusing when expressed in an e-mail message
• If your submission contains broken links or other invalid content, it will not be published. We will return the .zip file to the requestor and ask them to correct the problems before re-submitting
• Some programs have an option to save a web page as a "single file web page". This is not the same as a .zip file containing the content, and will not display properly when published on www.aatoronto.org. Save the web page as multiple files, then roll them into a .zip file.

When creating a group web page, please keep the 12 Traditions of A.A. in mind. Every group's primary purpose is to carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers, so think about the impression your page content will give the newcomer.

We've provided space for groups in our area to have their own homepages:

• As Bill Sees It
• Back To Basics (richmond Hill)
• Beverly Hills
• Bloordale
• Church Street Group
• City Central
• Don Valley
• Downtown 5:15
• Erin Mills
• Fifth Tradition (scarborough)
• Friendly
• Glenholme
• Golden Mile
• High Park
• Hill Group
• Leslie
• Maple
• Mount Dennis
• New Anchor
• Open Mind
• Responsibility
• Rox Glen Traditional
• Scarborough
• St. Clement's
• Westmoreland