It is not that hard to build a CMS, even interfacing shouldn't be that hard. I build them for less than $5k. Help was offered and I am sure there are plenty of other web savvy programmers out there who could have done a great job for far less than what was paid for a plug-in solution. But nothing was the stern reply. I think $50k was touted as the cost for this great upgrade. As we all know, an out of the box solution never fits all applications. Be it iMIS or Joomla. As soon as you want to make it do something different things get ugly. It is not really the wC3 compliance that's the problem. Most browsers can deal with it, except some of the less popular ones running on Macs it seems. The issue is more that it is slow and clunky and not logical to navigate. Of course there is also the fact that non web/graphical savvy people try their best to add content but it doesn't always come out looking that great. Options: 1. Pay a large company heaps of money for an off the shelf solution that doesn't quite do the job and wait for every and pay even more if you want anything changed or altered 2. Have your members do something for either nothing or very little and have it do exactly what you want and maybe have to wait a little if changes are required Of course there are pros and cons with both options. Guess the GFA thought "well we have plenty of money let's just go for the (perceived) easiest option and disregard the fact that it is the members money and that it will not give the best outcome". The long and the short of it is; help can be offered but if there is no acceptance of the help then let us whinge about the decisions that have been made so someone may understand that what has been done is not up to scratch, otherwise we all accept and struggle with something that isn't up to scratch and no one is any the wiser. Shooting people down in flames for expressing an opinion is not a good look either. It is through discussion that we move forward. </soapbox> Kindest Regards Grant Davies m. 0419 818 315 f. 07 41 54 14 36 e. [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Shirley Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2010 06:50 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] New Website - Can't Find anything !!! IMIS runs the GFA membership system, and has for several years. As I understand it, this made it the best option when considering an appropriate CMS. Standing on the sidelines and whinging is not a good look. If you don't like the site, how about offering to help? Cheers Tim se sono rose, fioriranno From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Scutter Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2010 19:18 To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] New Website - Can't Find anything !!! I tried to find the minutes of the meeting where they decided to switch to this iMIS system, but couldn't find them on the new site either! I notice the old website was using Joomla!, a fairly popular open source content management system, does anyone know what the GFA's issues were with that? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Texler, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: The gfa pages fail validation via wC3.
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