Bentley Beetham - 1924 Everest Expedition

[sporrencense]

Hello All,

I need your help. I want to win an award - North East Digital Awards - Best Voluntary Sector Website



I have submitted a site - http://www.bentleybeetham.org (described below) which uses WebsiteBaker and hoped you would help me out. If nothing else it is a very intersting subject and has some fantastic and very rare images on it from the 1924 Everest Expedition where Mallory and Irvine died on Everest.

Please vote for it at:

http://www.northeastdigitalawards.co.uk/view/327/

The Bentley Beetham Collection

Bentley Beetham, a schoolmaster at Barnard Castle School, highly-regarded natural history photographer and avid rock climber was selected, along with a handful of others that included George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, to join the ill fated British expedition in 1924 to scale Mount Everest. Mallory and Irvine lost their lives on Everest that year and to this day it is unsure as to whether they made the summit or not. The question of 'did they, or did they not?' is the biggest mystery yet to be solved in mountaineering history!

The Bentley Beetham Collection website (http://www.bentleybeetham.org) gives access to a large collection of images, maps, strategy papers and newspaper clippings from and about the 1924 expedition. The collection paints a portrait of Tibet shortly after the turn of the century, a fateful moment in history, as well as life in Barnard Castle, the surrounding area of Teesdale and Bentley Beetham's mountaineering exploits in the Alps, Tatra and Atlas mountains.

Your help is much appreciated.

Ben

[sporrencense]

Thanks to all those who looked and voted.

I am happy to say that the website has been shortlisted and I should know the result on 15th May.

Thanks again

Ben

[gillweb]

Not to be rude here BUT it seems to me like you have used WB on several of your projects but are claiming the CMS as your own project?  AxessCMS?  I could be wrong but that is what it seems to me?  http://www.axesscms.com

[sporrencense]

Not to be rude here BUT it seems to me like you have used WB on several of your projects but are claiming the CMS as your own project?  AxessCMS?  I could be wrong but that is what it seems to me?  http://www.axesscms.com

Thanks for your comment. AxesCMS is a brand of Axess Media and relates to a project not a product. Our project (AxessCMS) relates to a moral ideal of creating accessible websites using A simple, easy-to-use content management solution and not all our solutions use website baker. The brand also relays core ideals of accessible cost and accessible people - i.e. we are transparent and upfront about what we do.

Over the last few years we have been active participants within the forum and have made numerous donations to WebsiteBaker. We are always entirely upfront with our customers that we use an open source content management system - it is one of the major selling points of our design service that we do not have to charge license fees etc (http://www.axesscms.com/pages/about-us.php).

We are not intending to claim it to be our own nor or are we charging for the CMS. We only charge for our implementation of design. We were told by a senior W Baker that we could reskin the backend as we wished so long as the license information remained in place

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whicih it is on every installation.

Our business model has changed over the last few years and is currently changing again. Whereby we set up AxessCMS - Accessible Content Managament Solutions before we ever knew about website baker we now use website baker most because of all the solutions we use this is the one that we get the most positive feedback about. Because of this tendancy we are currently in the process of rebranding our business to be entirely encompassed by Axess Media and 100% transparent about the systems we use to delilver our project ideals.

I hope this answers your concerns and please do look at our realigned business proposition as soon as it becomes live (I will post as soon as it is ready) as we would like to ensure that no one gets the wrong end of the stick.

regards

Ben

[gillweb]

I guess i was wrong   Sorry for the accusation.

[sporrencense]

Thanks to all who voted for us in the North East Digital Awards.

The judges made their selection from the shortlisted entries and I am really happy to say that we won our category.

Best Voluntary Sector Website - North East Digital Awards.

All the best.