First & Third Trinity Boat Club

About the Website

The Design

The site has a number of designs, chosen at random each time you visit the site, celebrating the successes of the club's recent Lent and May Bumps Headship crews. At present 7 of our 8 Head of the River crews of the last 30 years are depicted.

Men's Lent Bumps 2000 This design depicts the Men's Lent VIII of 2000 on the first of their two tense row-overs ahead of Caius. After a cold and windy first two days, the picture was taken on the calm and sunny Friday evening by the club's Senior Treasurer, Dr Nick Kingsbury. View the full picture in the gallery Read the Captain's book race reports

Women's Lent Bumps 2007 A spectacular rise of 13 places in 12 days racing culminated in the women's club claiming their first VIIIs Headship on Friday of the 2007 Lents. This site design shows them moving in, in dramatic fashion, to bump Caius for 2nd place. The picture was taken by club alumnus Martin Peck. View the full picture in the gallery Read the members' results posts

Men's Lent Bumps 2007 This picture, by club member Sam Zhang, depicts the Men's Lent VIII rowing-over triumphantly ahead of their closest rivals, Jesus, on Saturday of the Lent Bumps. The men's club had chased the Headship for 14 consecutive row-overs in second place before the 2007 crew took down Caius convincingly on the first day. View the full picture in the gallery Read the members' results posts

Women's Lent Bumps 2008 The Lents 2008 Women's boat became the first ever First and Third crew to retain a Lents Headship after they survived a perilous battle with Emmanuel all the way to the line on their fourth and final row-over. In this image, recorded by Phil Horler, Emmanuel are pictured closing ominously on our Headship crew at the start of the Reach. View the full picture in the gallery Read the members' results posts

Men's Lent Bumps 2008 Forty minutes after the Women's successful defense of their first Lents Headship, the men's Lent VIII cruised across Top Finish to retain the men's title. This was the first time a Lents double Headship had been retained by any club. This site design is based on Martin Peck's picture of the Headship crews' victory paddle. View the full picture in the gallery Read the members' results posts

Men's May Bumps 2008 In 2008 the club achieved its first May Bumps Headship for 35 years. Beating boats with substantially more CUBC and International power and experience, this was the culmination of over two years of hard training together for many of those in the crew. There are two designs celebrating this historic occasion - the first moments after the crew sealed the headship at Top Finish on Saturday night and the traditional boat burning celebration. View the scene at top finish in the gallery - taken by Martin Peck View the boat burning picture in the gallery - taken by Mr Woolford and submitted by Mark Sankey Read the members' results posts

Men's Lent Bumps 2009 The men's club dominance of the Cam continued and they defended the Lents headship comfortably for three days from new challengers, Downing. First and Third have now held the men's Lent title for three years. The picture used for the design was taken by Martin Peck on Thursday night. View the full picture in the gallery Read the members' results posts

Page Layout

What you are looking at now uses 'tables' to position the page's menu and title, so that the menu and the title also move up and down as you scroll the page. If your screen is large enough to display the entire menu all the time you might prefer using 'fixed' menus instead - click here to choose.

Site Appearance and Browsers

The site should work properly on all mainstream browsers. The plain version of the site also works well on PDAs and Mobile Phones - as well being a bit more "office friendly"! If you are suffering any problems with the site on your browser of course we should be very pleased to hear from you.

Site Management

These pages are maintained by the webmaster, currently James Scott-Brown assisted by anyone else who is feeling keen. The process of updating the web site is on-going, and I am always pleased to receive your suggestions or comments. I am also keen to include any relevant articles, information or pictures you may have - so please email me with anything you've got that's worth looking at.

Site Host

A big thank you to 1st & 3rd old boy, Chris Webb, for his help with registering our URL and generously supporting us with the aid of his DNS and mail servers - owned by his company, Arachsys.

The site itself has been hosted on a series of machines from within Trinity College. The current machine is a Dell SC440 server, with a Dual Core Intel Xeon 3060 2.4GHz processor, 1GB memory and 2 160 GB Raid enabled hard drives. It is running Ubuntu Linux.

The machine runs the usual range of services under Linux in its role as our web and mail server - http, php, ntp, smtp, ssh, subversion and the mysql database server.

Site Technology

The site is written in a mixture of hand-coded html and xml. Those pages written in xml are turned into html using xsl stylesheets.

The dynamic parts of the website to which members contribute are php scripts and have been given the ".phtml" file extension. The underlying content is stored in a mysql database.

Mail to the members' mailing lists is downloaded from our domain name hosts, Arachsys, with fetchmail, and processed by exim via a php command line script.

The most recent addition to our server is the source code control system subversion which allows us to have several people contributing to the website at the same time.

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