Tips

The purpose of this page is to let our visitors know how to efficiently use WSCA Online and how to stay informed with the tools WSCA Online provides. There are also some hints on how to navigate and how to make use of some swimming-related online tools.

Stay up-to-date

News Seite

The News page contans an always updated overview of news in WSCA (left column) and from the world of swimming (right columnt).

RSS Feeds

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content including, but not limited to, blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays. [Quelle: Wikipedia]

WSCA Online provides an RSS feed with all the news as published on the News page.

How to use an RSS feed?

• Most internet browser (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari) support Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks can be recognized by their RSS icon on the right of the address line. Clicking this icon causes the feed behind the Live Bookmark to be subscribed to.
• You can use most email readers (e.g. Thunderbird, Outlook and Apple Mail) to subscribe to RSS feeds and read the news. News items are displayed like incomming email.
• Various specific feed readers exist. The behavior is similar to reading feeds with an email reader. Find an overview at wikipedia.
• Various online readers exist. Probably the most popular one is Google Reader. You can assemble your own feed portal using online readers.
• Similar to online feed readers, personalized portal pages can give you an overview of up-to-date information and support the integration of RSS feeds. iGoogle and Netvibes are popular examples of such personal information hubs. WSCA Online news feed can easily be integrated to both of them.

Up-to-date lists

You can find lists with schedules in multiple locations in WSCA Online. All those lists feature visible support for past (gray), next (red) and upcomming (black) events.

Bookmarks

Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. [Quelle: Wikipedia]

You can find a set of social bookmarking links on each page to enable you to easily bookmark the page with your favorite social bookmarking service (needs registration and login with the service).

Stable Addresses

Our page addresses are stable over a long time. If we have to move page addresses for technical reasons, we provide forwarding services to allow your bookmarks to be stable over time. However, we may break links to outdated pages.

Navigation

You can always find the same set of links (menu) on the left side. The number of entries is kept small on purpose.
In addition to the visible navigation, we provide a Quicklinks dropdown menu on the top of each page with some additional entries like links to the latest press release or the latest letter.

Wetkämpfe

Swiss Swimming and the organizers of competitons provide a set of online services to keep you informed about upcomming events, results and statisctics. WSCA Online links to these services. You can find direct links to Swiss Swimming (1), the organizers, swimrankings.net (2) and our own results page (3) on our competition page.

swimrankings.net

Swimrankings.net offers a wide range of services based on race results.

• Personal bests (e.g. Webmaster)
• Record lists of countries, regions and teams, (e.g. WSCA)
• Statistics (e.g. Webmaster 50 Meter Freistil)
• And the respective search pages.

Online Viewer

Swiss Swimming Online Viewer lists all events of the current year. You can find detailed results for past races and detailed entry information for upcomming events.