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Welcome to our site
[November 25,
2009]
It is my pleasure to
welcome you to the Avaiki-Connection websites. If you are
new to the website, welcome, read through it and learn
about who we are and where we come from.
If you
are a regular visitor, thanks for stopping by again and hope to
get some feedbacks from you. If you are on
our main website; there are icons on the top right on
every page, click on the email icon and send this website
url to your friends, especially those who want to visit our
little Islands and other wantoks who may not know of
our existence.
Avaiki-Connection has
been on the World Wide Web for three years and I would like to
thank you all for making it a dream comes true. This is our
only home on the Web so lets keep it alive. We'll add
more to the site when necessary.
In the meantime, browse through it
and le me know what you think.
Te
ma'ine kia tekoutou
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Why we use the "Avaiki"
Rennell and Bellona Islands are
two Polynesian Islands in the Solomons. These
are homes to Polynesians whose ancestors came from
Wallis and Futuna more than 600 years
ago. Our people have lived and thrived on these
Islands for centuries.
Christianity reached
our Islands in the early 1900s. Bellona Island, in
particular, was Christinized in 1938 by Seventh Day
Aventist missionariesfrom
Lake Tegano.
Today, Rennell
Bellona people call themselves the "Avaiki people." Many would disagree with that because that
name doesn't appear in our
history. But the name Avaiki is
extremely important to Polynesians.
Because of
the seperation of the Polynesian people by
the vast Pacific ocean
for centuries, the name Avaiki may have
been lost or corrupted in its usage. The
name Hawaii, Hawaiiki, Avaiki, Matangiki, Savai'i
etc. do have similar meanings. To many, this
is the land of their ancestors. Today, the two
main groups, beside Rennell and Bellona
people, use Avaiki as their identity are the
Niueans and Cook Islanders.
Avaiki-Connection signifies
our ties to the Polynesian Triange. Ties to
our race and heritage. It demonstrates our strong connections
to the lands of our forefathers, and the love for
our fellow Polynesian people in the Eastern
region.
These
websites bring our Islands closer to our people
wherever they are, but more so to promote our culture
and values that separate us from the rest of the Solomon
Island people.
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Browse Our Website
How To Browse our
Website. I guess the biggest concern
of our visitors is where to go for a
certain information. One
of the biggest challenges of web creation is the
ability to capture the imagination and attention of visitors.
A better website is one that is easy to browse,
but sometimes larger websites are quite boring;
too many pages, and too many links.With this I think
its important to use a few lines here
to help those in this situation.
Follow
these instructions:
1. Pages
and subpages: Subpages are
ways to minimize crowded
menu. This means that you can access these links
by place the mouse on the main page and subpages will appear
on the bottom. Scroll
down and click on each links.
2. Links: There
are ways to identify a hyperlink on a webpage.
URLs (website address) are hidden behind photos, phrases, words,
or Paragraphs. If the mouse becomes a palm (hand) when rolling over
a word or
phrase, that is a hyperlink. It links
to somewhere inside or outsider the
website.
3. Color Links. Another
way of identifying hyperlinks is to look for
colored words, phrases,
or sentences. They are usually
active hyperlinks that changes color when
the mouse rolls over them.
Click on them and see where the links take you.
4. Identify
URL
. If
you don't want to open the link, just place
the mouse on the hyperlink and look to the bottom left
of the Status bar. The URL or Website address will
appear.
Now go back to
Avaiki Connection and check it out.
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