A home web page for us...?

[Stone]

Just wondering if it's worth pursuing a home website for our Club. The one in the TLCA website is quite antiquated, and I thought it would be nice if people could Google our Club name and be directed to a well-maintained site that has info on our Club, members, and activities...especially popular ones like Cruiser Days. I was imagining a well-designed webpage with a nice layout with links to various pages of interest, like a separate Cruiser Days page, a link to our forum here in MUD, etc. etc.

Would it be expensive to have something like this? What does it take?

I know that we always have money in the kitty that needs to be spent. If this is a reasonable cost and would allow people another avenue to get to know us...then might it not be money well spent?

Maybe a couple of Club members could volunteer to run the site?

 

[Greg_B]

Sure...

If we can find someone in the club who will maintain it I suggest buying space from Birfield to support the cause.

gb

 

[Geet]

It's not expensive at all. A basic website only costs a few dollars a month to host. If you want extensive galleries of images, that will drive up the bandwidth costs.

The problem is finding the time to keep the site updated.

 

[Ratpuke]

Kiss Peter Valchev's butt and maybe he'll help you out. He keeps the RMLCA website updated as new photos and run info is submitted. You guys really need a better website.

 

[Enigma]

www.coastalcruisers.ca


this was discussed at ummm..one of the meetings. Garry has the name reserved
and I ferget the details..but I think was willing to host it?

some damn nice pics up there .

 

[Stone]

Interesting, Jeff...I didn't know about that site. Yeah, very nice pics. Maybe this is something worth discussing at the next Club meeting?

 

[chuglife]

www.coastalcruisers.ca


this was discussed at ummm..one of the meetings. Garry has the name reserved
and I ferget the details..but I think was willing to host it?

some damn nice pics up there .

are there full-res versions of those pics hosted anywhere? alot of great wallpaper material there...

 

[Scalp]

We are working on a new website for the club. Right now we are entering pictures from the Labour Day trip to Poison Moutnain/China Head/ Swartz Lakes, Mud Lake, and beyond, to the new website.
We can discuss it more at the meeting Thursday. Meet for supper at the ABC restaurant at 6:00 pm.
~Bill

 

[Scalp]

Go to coastalcruisers.ca and click on Website DCS for pics, and then go back to the beginning and click on Caraboo 2005-05-01.
Garry Broeckling has worked hard to develop this site for us. We owe him big time for his work.
~Bill

 

[SquamSquatch]

Techie stuff CoastalCruisers.ca

I have it hosted on one of my servers right now. Will need in the long run a host site on someones home connection. Buying space will most likely not work as we need major space and bandwidth to pull this off. I would host it at my house but telus blocks almost everything if you don't upgrade to their business package. If the club payed the upgrade difference I would take care of the hosting, backup, networking, promotion part, but being very busy I would expect ongoing creative support. I could cover about 10,000 high res photos to start without any changes, and would run a reindex to build the photo library everytime someone downloaded some more original size pics. If someone is a experienced web programmer the skies the limits....

For right now please call me at 604-8153234 for the password and username to create event folders and download full res pics for indexing on the current photo library...

The system will take anything you guys can give it..

 

[Scalp]

Nils: Do you understand what he is saying? He's lost me, and you are our computer guy.
~Bill

 

[SquamSquatch]

I threw this together out of an old template I designed

Not anywhere near finished, but how do you guys like the look, and give me some ideas for what we should put on the buttons

Garry

http://www.coastalcruisers.ca/newsite

 

[Enigma]

Not anywhere near finished, but how do you guys like the look, and give me some ideas for what we should put on the buttons

Garry

http://www.coastalcruisers.ca/newsite

looks pretty good...but I though Jan's '42 blew black smoke not white?