Comments on: Do you like this new web site?

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:23:48 +0000

FYI… the cover pix on the April Burgee was shot by Beth Rigby aboard the “Blew Bayou” during the first “Jack Attack” race. Other pix from that evening have been forwarded and may be online now……

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:20:51 +0000

Mike,,,, I just reviewed the SSS Burgee On-Line and again find that the calendar that is printed there has been extracted from the club website. I would like the “printed” format that is mailed or even posted on the website to have much more creativity. Simple graphics are nice along with starting times for the various activities. I understand that the Google calendar format is limited to the number of characters you can print on the screen. To improve this it may require a modest purchase of a calendar program. I am willing to contribute a few $$$ to this effort if needed. Is there any way to reduce the font size and this would allow for more info???? Thanks again for all you do to promote SSS…. Bob

By: Mike Halliday (Webmaster)

Mike Halliday (Webmaster) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:17:58 +0000

Jason,
Can you provide a list of specific changes you would like to see? Or alternatively, take a look amongst the 1,000 wordpress themes available at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/, and let me know what theme(s) you think would look better.

Describing the layout as “dated” doesn’t help me. You know what you mean by that – but I don’t. It’s just too subjective.

By: Jason Roznos

Jason Roznos — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:16:02 +0000

This layout is very dated. Almost looks like an angelfire site. We can tweak this a bit to make it have more interactive functionality and easier navigation. Mike, give me a call to discuss next week if you have time.

Jason

By: Bob Miller

Bob Miller — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:11:36 +0000

Thanks!! Starting the week on the BIG calendar on Sunday makes it easier for me to read the information…….

By: Mike Halliday (Webmaster)

Mike Halliday (Webmaster) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:02:52 +0000

Rich,
Thanks for your comments. I’ll try to respond to them individually:

1. grainy background: you mean the grunge background? It can be anything we want. Do you have any suggestions?
2. list of links is tacky: not sure what tacky is in this context. Can you point me to a list of links which is not tacky?
3. fonts don’t match: the articles are being authored by several different people, and the article editor empowers them to choose their own style – including styles pasted from (say) MS Word. Who am I to dictate what style our authors should use?
4. no burgee: Burgee Online is under the Membership tab. Or you can use the Search box to find them.
5. no weather: there are links to several weather sources. I haven’t put a weather widget on the front page because I think they offer too little detail for too much real estate. You obviously disagree. Neither of us is wrong. I can run a campaign like we did for Calendars starting on Sunday versus Monday, and we’ll go with the most votes. How would that be?
6. no aerial image: I would love one too. Please send it. For the header, it needs to scale to 960px by 190px.
7. no racing rules: you mean, apart from the NORs, the standard rules like at http://www.sailing.org? It’s a large PDF, but I can add a link to it. Good idea.
8. no cruiser blog: the web site reflects the Squadron – which has 2 directors responsible racing, and zero for cruising. That’s not a criticism, but a fact of life. If the cruisers were more active, then democracy would have yielded them a director. Having said all that, the entire site IS a blog (it’s based on WordPress). Anyone can make comments, on any article. Under the Help tab, we invite people to become article authors – which could then become the seed of a cruiser blog thread.
9. vague links with no names: not sure what is meant by this. Please clarify.

Your comments are always welcome, and I will try to respond to them constructively.

What is not welcome are your unverified factual claims like “…a volunteer learning how to do web design”. I take personal offense to this, as I’ve been in this business since you were in diapers.
You may post your apology here.

By: Muro

Muro — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:01:48 +0000

Time to stop trying and use the sucessful format of a huge club. Why are we reinventing the wheel? The grainy background is immature, the list of links is tacky. The fonts don’t match, no burgee, weather, aerial image, racing rules(we do race), cruiser blog. Links!? why have a vague links when there should be names to them. We paid thousands for Stu Gilfillen to design the last site all because our wonderful free web guy Charlie was not good enough. We want what we paid for, not a volunteer learning how to do web design. No disrepect to the designer but seriously, why are we penny wise and dollar foolish with the highest exposure part of our club.

http://www.newportyachtclub.org/
http://www.stfyc.com/
http://www.styc.net/

By: Frank English

Frank English — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:31:56 +0000

I really like the new web site. I would like to see the Burgee go virtural for those that want it, therefore, saving the squadron money

Even most of the ball busters like myself have web access.

By: Bob Miller-SSS Race Captain

Bob Miller-SSS Race Captain — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:29:51 +0000

Mike…. The BIG Calender and current 10 day calendar of current events have been moved to under Membership… Not sure why… I also am a fan of starting the week with Sunday being the first day of the week…

By: SunfishMaster

SunfishMaster — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:24:41 +0000

Very disappointing that two major Sunfish events occurred at your club and there is no news about either one available on your web page nor sent to anyone in our Class nor posted on the Sunfish Class message board. Hundreds to thousands of people want to know what happened!! A few words about the conditions would be nice, too.