First Leann, I'm asking you to use a smoother way to say things. You don't have to be harsh to expose your point of view. I can be harsh in return, no problem, but it's really not in everyone's interest to do so. How come Brittney said she had to pay a monthly fee from her own pocket for her new website? Are you telling me we were paying twice for non-operational websites? OMG... Hey Leann, I know the difference between a forum and a website. The main thing is: the programming language is not the same, and the costs are not the same. All the rest is bullshit, or just unimportant. Can't we get back the money from the website host if we choose to stop using it? I guess that would represent a nice sum if they are to refund the fee for a 5 year period. Everyone with some habit of websites will tell you that in spite of statistics (most of the time, when you Google for a gecko species, you happen to have a GU thread as the #1 result- NOT gekkota.com, sorry to say) the "old" forum as it is, even with some improvements, still looks old and hundreds of hours would be needed to update it fully. Forums now have photo galleries, care sheets, portals, a classifieds system- that's just everything we need. Most of the contents of the old gekkota.com website can be transfered into the forum quite rapidly. Think twice. It's always easy to criticize something which you didn't do yourself, that's another story when it comes to action and moving forward. Just think that most pics on gekkota.com are 10, 12 years old. Now digital cameras allow a much better quality. That's just an example on how outdated gekkota.com is. Repashy? Hahahaha. Most qualified and advanced breeders will tell you his products are not good to feed geckos, and that he is making the worse things ever in the Rhacodactylus genus with his crazy "high end" race to make money on genetically deficient animals. Noobs may find it interesting to feed a gecko just like they would feed their dog, but it is not so simple. Ask Willi Henkel, Robert Seipp, Jon or other people with many years of experience on Rhacs and you'll see things under a totally different angle. Anyway, I won't argue with you, Leann. I started a motion, so let's discuss and take the right decision altogether. As the future President, Jon has the upper hand of what is best for our image or not. He shall be listened at prior to anything else. Working on the old website is like wasting time and energy unless you start it from scratch. Again, it's like putting a damper on a sick entity. Just compare it to GU and see how far we are backwards from them. Not saying GU is perfect, but they drain major names in the hobby and have a sort of implicit monopole- it's not with a 10-year old website that we will change that. Best and with all due respect to everyone, Hervé
______________________________________________________________________________________________ Editor of the Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Administrateur du forum reptiles, rongeurs et amphibiens Les Dragons d'Asgard http://dragonsdasgard.actifforum.com From: le...@daygecko.com To: gecko@lists.gekkota.com Subject: RE: [gecko]GGA Forum & Website Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:21:30 -0500 A forum = place to share ideas, chat, discuss A website = central location on the web for information about a group/company. Search engines look for websites. Just like Repashy Super Food there are two parts. One is Repashy's website. The second part is the forum. They link. www.store.repashy.com > www.forum.rephasy.com They are linked. Putting all the GGA Website content onto the forum and dropping the website = does not make sense. Note: the domain name gekkota.com is paid up for five years. As pitiful as it is, the GGA website is a heavily trafficed site. Statistics say it's one of the top Google and yahoo referals for "geckos". It's been there for so long. It's was set up very well for webbots to find.
