The site, Frankston Community Connection, will be officially launched tomorrow at 6pm in the Uniting Church hall in High Street.

The event will be followed by the Australian premiere of China Blue, a documentary about the exploitation of clothing workers in China.

The website has been operating for several weeks and has attracted hundreds of visitors keen to see graphic footage of the storm and high tide that inundated the foreshore and properties along Kananook Creek on Sunday, April 26.

The website is at www

.frankston.vic.au, one of the new domain names available for community groups around Australia that contain a town or suburb's name in the address.

Friends of Frankston has a two-year licence to operate the website and has been given the blessing of Frankston Council chief executive George Modrich.

The group can sell email addresses such as mike@frankston.vic.au as well as advertising and is hoping to generate enough money to make the website self-sufficient.

Friends member Richard Laverack said he hoped the website would become a tool for "community memory" and a place for community groups and individuals to have their say about Frankston. "The storm and high tide footage is there for all to see in coming years as we deal with climate change," he said. "Friends of Frankston is concerned about the impacts of sea level rise and increased frequency of storm surges on the town.

"Frankston's central activities district, the Seaford coastline and Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands will be impacted by sea level rise predicted to be 80 centimetres by the end of the century, but this data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is based on seven-year-old figures that do not take into account recent melting of ice on land."

Mr Laverack said Professor Will Stefan of Australian National University in Canberra told a recent conference Australia could experience a 140-centimetre sea level rise by 2050.

This would impact the proposed Frankston marina, the council's recently released planning scheme that will allow buildings of 12.5 metres high on Seaford foreshore, and existing and planned roadworks near Kananook Creek, Mr Laverack said.

Frankston Community Connection website launch is at 6pm on Wednesday at Uniting Church hall, 16 High Street, Frankston. Entertainment, supper, prizes including 25 email boxes. China Blue screens at 7.15. Details: Richard Laverack, 87748170.