About this Website

This website was created by and is maintained by James McMartin Long. Report errors to James McMartin Long. at James@JamesLong.com or (518)835-3734.

Photograph Credits

Home page Kane Mt. Panorama, Home page Nick Stoner statue, Gallery page Nick Stoner statue — Anita McMartin Long
Town Board page — Anita McMartin Long
Library page — James McMartin Long
Durey Creek Bluegrass Band page — Doug Purcell
Kyle Hall page — Kyle Hall
Golf Course page, Gallery page Golf Course — Jerry Groom, II
Golf Course page — Nick Gale (©Nick Gale Photography)

The following goals are aspirational. The website does not meet all the goals listed below.

Include in the calendar every public event or important date affecting persons in Caroga.
Include links from the calendar to additional information about those public events or important dates.
Include links to authoritative sources, if available.
Aid persons or organizations in Caroga in scheduling their own events to minimize the number of conflicting event dates.
Include all laws, ordinances, meeting minutes, hearing notices, decision letters, etc.
Update the website quickly as new information arrives.
Include all departmental information: hours, contact information, forms, procedures, etc.
Keep the website simple to use and navigate.

Keep the site free of any tracking cookies.
Avoid use of JavaScript, especially third party JavaScript from the big search engine and social media companies: those companies sell your personal information.
Avoid linking to pages on social media sites.

Make the content smartphone friendly.
Keep column widths narrow for ease in reading: roughly “30 em”, similar to newspaper column widths.
Minimize the number of clicks required to reach desired information.
Keep the content compact to ensure fast page display.
Avoid third-party files, especially third-party JavaScript, to ensure fast page display, to protect privacy, and to protect user security.
Minimize use of 8.5×11 paper-centric PDF files, which are poorly suited for reading on smartphones.
Where PDF images of original documents must be presented, attempt to also provide modern HTML transcriptions of those legacy documents.
Make as much content available as HTML as possible.
Minimize use of proprietary word processor files such as “.DOC” files, which may not be readable by all users.
Maximize the content that strictly adheres to public standards: HTML (primarily HTML 4.01 Strict) and CSS (CSS level 3).

Apple Safari browser on iOS does not adhere to HTML standards: The calendar months vary in width when they should not.
Retyping old laws and ordinances is an enormous task and will take time to complete.
All copies of laws enacted before 1968 may have been destroyed by a fire in the town barn.
Converting all “.DOC” files to HTML will take time to complete.
Site searching function relies on Google instead of an internal search function. Google searches may not find the very latest pages.