[SGVLUG] Our website [feedback from the last meeting]

[Joel Witherspoon]

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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <
Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:

> [I meant to post this earlier, but right after the meeting we had a little
> DNS difficulty to overcome]
>
> At the last meeting, there was mention that our website is a little
> difficult to get around - I won't argue that, after all, I'm the one
> maintaining it :)
>
> To give a little background, our "site" grew out of a hand-coded HTML page
> with just the basic info about our group and the latest meeting in one page.
>  It also happened to be reasonably efficient for text-only browsers, though
> I'm not sure how strong a requirement that would be anymore (though I'm sure
> there are a few members that would appreciate it)
>
> When we searched for ways to make the site better, we chose a CMS that
> seemed reasonable enough for our needs, and could be "tweaked" to make the
> site look very similar to the original hand-coded version, so we went with
> it - only to have the original maintainers of the particular CMS we chose
> decide to "split" into two distinct camps regarding how "open" the source
> was and how it was to be supported.  Coupled with the fact that (really) I'm
> just am amateur with the software, it is not surprising that the site might
> be a tad difficult to understand...
>
> So - I'm looking for suggestions for improvement - I won't (necessarily)
> rope you into /implementing/ any of these suggestions, but any help you can
> provide would be welcome indeed.
>
> Tom
>



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