I've been spending a couple of hours every few days to relearning, fixing, and cleaning up the Club's website.
Our provider upgraded/changed the "site builder" software... many things for the better, some not so. I'm guessing there was some type of "import old site/database" function (to transfer the existing pages to the new software) and then you take it from there. This import utility imported EVERYTHING! Including a lot of garbage files, duplicates, and "stuff" the old website needed for slideshows and such.
Cooz must have put in a LOT of work to get the "new look" working correctly. The new page format, colors, drop boxes, etc. This is a public Thank You for all this work.
I've got it somewhat easy - the core work is finished. I'm just going in and cleaning house. A ton of files have been deleted, or condensed/moved to proper directories, and the links to them corrected.
Forum issues and updates... I'm probably the one to blame when things here started slipping. I don't think I communicated effectively, or did a proper hand-off to Cooz when I retired from Webmaster. This job requires a lot of inter-communication with the other officers. The other officer positions need to communicate in a timely manner to the webmaster about new members, events, etc. I don't know if I made this clear... maybe they didn't know this info was part of their "job description" (the webmaster needs to be somewhat of a nag ). We'll get there.
I'm going to put together a few "step by step" tutorials on how to alter a person's access levels, change the countdown timer, and other basic tasks. There will be no big words, and lots of pictures - you won't have to be a computer whiz to do this - and they'll be stored in the Officers Only section here. Hopefully then more than one person will know how to do some of this stuff if the webmaster isn't available or gets road-pizza'd by a bus.
BLyke said
Feb 18, 2024
Thanks to both of you for your efforts to keep this running!
I've been spending a couple of hours every few days to relearning, fixing, and cleaning up the Club's website.
Our provider upgraded/changed the "site builder" software... many things for the better, some not so. I'm guessing there was some type of "import old site/database" function (to transfer the existing pages to the new software) and then you take it from there. This import utility imported EVERYTHING! Including a lot of garbage files, duplicates, and "stuff" the old website needed for slideshows and such.
Cooz must have put in a LOT of work to get the "new look" working correctly. The new page format, colors, drop boxes, etc. This is a public Thank You for all this work.
I've got it somewhat easy - the core work is finished. I'm just going in and cleaning house. A ton of files have been deleted, or condensed/moved to proper directories, and the links to them corrected.
Forum issues and updates... I'm probably the one to blame when things here started slipping. I don't think I communicated effectively, or did a proper hand-off to Cooz when I retired from Webmaster. This job requires a lot of inter-communication with the other officers. The other officer positions need to communicate in a timely manner to the webmaster about new members, events, etc. I don't know if I made this clear... maybe they didn't know this info was part of their "job description" (the webmaster needs to be somewhat of a nag
). We'll get there.
I'm going to put together a few "step by step" tutorials on how to alter a person's access levels, change the countdown timer, and other basic tasks. There will be no big words, and lots of pictures - you won't have to be a computer whiz to do this - and they'll be stored in the Officers Only section here. Hopefully then more than one person will know how to do some of this stuff if the webmaster isn't available or gets road-pizza'd by a bus.