What's New

THE NEW MH PICS IMAGE LIBRARY - May 2006
Using Flickr.com (a service from Yahoo) we have started an online library of Madhatters pictures and shots from over the years. Anyone can join the group and post up a picture. The beauty of this service is that users can comment on individual pictures or start discussions. When a picture is added to the group it will automatically refresh the home page. We have integrated a panel onto the home page (using RSS feed technology) that displays the latest pictures. For more information on the group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/madhatters/

ADD A WEB SITE RECOMMENDATION - September 2002
Added a new feature which lets Madhatters recommend web sites that are groovy, cool or of general use to the MH community.

PICTURE LIBRARY - August 2002
The Picture Library features picture folders from some of the more recent Madhatters events. It's cool and quite easy now to put up photos from entire events on the site. If you have any pics to put up send them to info@madhatters.org.uk

POLLS - November 2000
In a fit of Trago Mills frenzy, the Trago Poll was added to the site to find out how people really feel about The West Country's best tat market. Have a look at the Polls page.

JESUSIFY BUTTON - September 2000
So the coolest thing that ever was, the Jesusify button will turn the chat on the home page into glorified ranting from the dawn of Christianity. Also check out The News in Cockney. 

BIRTHDAYS PAGE - September 2000
Does exactly what it says. Leave the details of your birthday here and never again have to worry if you've told anyone. Now, there's no excuse if you don't get any cards it just means you're unpopular. Sorry.

SEARCH ENGINE - September 2000
Now you can Search throughout the whole site at a trice. Simply enter the description of your choice in the Search box and voilla.

LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ON THE SHOWS  - August 2000
Leave your comments on the shows  all you have to do is select The Show that you want to comment on and fill in the message box. Your comments are added to the page in real-time. Cool, eh.

YOUR NEWS - May 2000
As from the end of May you are able to add your own news stories to the site. This includes scope for putting pictures on to the Madhatters site also. And the even better new is - all you to do this is a web browser, that's it. If you have an article to add, if you are doing a show, if you are getting married, having a baby, just plain bored, whatever - tell someone about it!

It will just take 5 mins to get started - all you have to do is contact us and we will e-mail  you the administration details. You can do this by e-mailing us at madhatters to set you up. If you are really impatient and want to do it immediately, just ring Dave on 07932 004696. The important thing is that you just do it.

NEW SITE LAUNCH - End of May 2000
The Madhatters site is changing, as most of you know Dave Patrick has edited the site and newsletter for the last five years. Now with the help of some late nights and the programming boys at Realtouch for the first time we are looking at really making the web work for everyone involved in Madhatters.

As more and more people get online (including most Madhatters now) the MH Editorial committee agreed that rather than relying on the printed version of Madhatters for regular news (something that has happened less and less frequently of late), it would be much better if we could devote our time into making the web site work better for everyone. The launch of this new site takes us a long way down that road.

How? Well for the first time in the 4 year history of the site. YOU, are now in control of the content of the site. In fact, you can add, edit or delete your own news stories just by visiting the special NEWS administration page.

There's plenty more in the pipeline too, as the technology improves there are more opportunities for new developments. In the next few years I hope we will start a picture gallery, give everyone a password protected place to keep contact details up to date (for our records only) and put some streaming video and audio online, so the folks at UAC films and Vantage pictures amongst others can show their latest offerings.

And more importantly - this will extend to anyone and everyone who's ever been a Madhatter, a friend of a Madhatter, or is just a thoroughly good laugh. What we are all hoping to build here is a community of like minded, fun people who will stay in touch for the forseeable future. I hope this fits in with your ideal of where we should be aiming! It's always great to know that it's here... yes people do move away, but they come back and in actual fact we now have nearly 150 of you involved.

This year, more than any other, we are doing some great activities and reunion events. Future years will see more '32hr (or whatever) Drama challenges', Weekends away, Daft Football games, anything... and that's great. Now some years after most of us left Hatfield and the vicinity, we seem to be all still in touch - and at least some of that is down to the success of what we (as Madhatters) started in 1994. The important thing is that if you ever feel lonely, if you ever have any world shattering ideas that you want to share, if you ever want some people to go out and get drunk with; the Madhatters grapevine will be there for you - and we think that's alright!

Finally, Dave would like to thank Jon Greaves for his time and effort to help make the clever bits of this site work.