Due to a very high number of entries to the Tynemouth Winter Gala, some events have been rearanged on Sunday.
The girls’ Skins will move from the Sunday morning to the Saturday morning and will follow the boys’ Skins.
This will free up some time on the Sunday morning which allows Tynemouth to run a few heats of the girls’ 400m free
If these changes are unacceptable to you, please notify the gala coordinator via galas@chesterlestreetasc.co.uk before 12:00 midday on Thursday 11 October.
You may have noticed that we’ve recently refreshed some parts of our website and as part of this have been running a survey to get your thoughts on the redesign. We would like to thank everyone who took part in that survey and would like to tell you what we’re doing to build on this.
Our New Homepage
Our main focus with this redesign is to put the latest club news right up front and centre for our members. We do this by devoting the full width of the page to displaying our latest posts, and by serving two different versions of our homepage.
A side by side comparison of the two different versions of our homepage
Two Homepages? Why?
Our website is aimed at two main groups of people, who are very different.
First and foremost, we’re targetting our members, who generally want to get news or gala information from our website. This is why we’ve asked you to give us your comments on our refresh.
Secondly we’re focussing on prospective members of the club, mostly through parents.
If you’re a club member, you don’t need or want to see a description of what our club is about; you already know. That’s why if you’re logged into your club account, we won’t show you it and we’ll just give you our latest news and galas.
If you’re not logged in to a club account, you’ll see some additional content which lets people know what our club is about. We would like to know what you think we should be saying to prospective members through our homepage – send an email to websitefeedback@chesterlestreetasc.co.uk to let us know.
Why aren’t there images on the new homepage?
A common comment was one like this…
The lack of images make the site look very bland and if I was to open the page by mistake there would be no indication I was on swimming club website. If I was to visit the website researching the club the first impressions is that it is amateurish.
The simple answer to this is that we don’t have any up to date images to use. We’re continuing the evaluate the impact that removing images has had through our analytics tracking.
The New Masthead
The Masthead can best be descibed as “the red bit at the top of each page” and it helps us build up recognition.
Reviews of the new masthead were broadly positive, with written comments stating that navigation now seemed to be easier. We also asked people to score the new masthead between 1 and 10, with 1 being “Very Unimpressed” and 10 being “Very Unimpressed”. The lowest score was three, but there was no written explanation as to what they though was wrong.
We’re satisfied with the performance of the new red masthead for now, but are continuing to review it.
“Some information is out of date”
The website is a lot better that other clubs, some information is out of date so needs checking and updating. Very functional.
Yes. Some informaton on our website is out of date. From time to time we do try our best to look through as much of our website as possible, but we’re not perfect. You can now alert us to any technical or factual errors really easily.
Whenever you spot an issue, scroll down to the grey footer at the bottom of any page and click on “Report an issue with this page”.
You can still let us know what you think
Our survey is still open for submissions. Alternatively, email us at websitefeedback@chesterlestreetasc.co.uk, or comment below.
Metafit is cancelled on Friday 21 September because a training course for coaches will be taking place in the multi-purpose room.
If the weather stays dry all week, we may run an outdoor land training session. We will let you know via our website, social media and email if this is to be the case.
We are looking to host a second sponsored swim on 14 October, 15:30 – 17:00 with members of the CrossFit centre and their chosen charity of Epilepsy Action, monies raised will be split 50/50 between club and charity. Funds raised for the club will go towards new trophies for our annual club gala.
We would hope that each swimmer tried to gain sponsorship of £5, which can be paid via JustGiving.
Due to a lower than expected number of entries for the RDASC Back to Pool Gala, the Friday evening session has been cancelled.
Saturday
the first warm up will be 7.45 – 8.30
the Boys 200IM event will be the first event of Session 2 (08.30 Saturday morning)
the second warm up will be 9.30 – 10.30
the third warm up will be 1.15 – 2.15
the Boys Skins event will be the first event of Session 4 (14:15)
Sunday
the first warm up will be 7.45 – 8.30
the Girls 200IM event will be the first event of Session 5 (08.30 Sunday morning)
the second warm up will be 9.30 – 10.30
the third warm up will be 1.15 – 2.15
the Girls Skins event will be the first event of Session 7 (14:15)
Refunds will be made for any swimmer wishing to withdraw from the 200IM events. You must inform our gala coordinator before 21st September via galas@chesterlestreetasc.co.uk.
The final of the 100 x 100m Swimming relay in memory of the WW1 centenary takes place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield, tomorrow (8th September). There are lots of great activities on the day, but swimmers are still being sought to complete one of the teams. If you know of anyone who would like to join in on the day and support this amazing cause then please contact Natalie McGuire on natalie.mcguire@swimming.org
Training for C, D, E, and Dolphins squads will be cancelled on Sunday 23 September as coaches will be taking part in continuing professional development (CPD).
A, B1, B2 and B3 squads will train at Chester-le-Street in this timeslot, 15:30 – 17:00, instead of their usual slot at Birtley.
We’ve refreshed our website for the new season with a new homepage and a new red header that appears across all of our websites and services.
The design and content of our new home page has been inspired by the cuts the mustard approach that was developed at the BBC. These means we’re no longer using an image based home page as before and are instead focussing on putting our lastest news and upcoming galas front and center.
