I would agree with Melody's assessment. If several of us know HTML we
could perhaps be assigned different areas to correct mistakes, suggest
updating, etc. to help out the web team? I can help!
I got Samia's e-mail, I don't understand why we should abandon the
website we have and why we can't have both. I'm going to address that in
another post where we can go over her proposal point by point.
Julie
On 3/28/2011 6:19 PM, Melody Hartley wrote:
Hi all,
I just looked at gekkota.com, though not in great detail. I don't see
any reason to abandon the work that has gone into that. A lot of
things -- photos, care sheets. sounds, etc., would be the same. I'm
thinking it rather needs a makeover or new face, and some things, like
discussions and classifieds, probably work better on the forum. But
the existing website is a good reference tool. Yes it has broken
links, text problems, inconsistencies and typos, but those are not
that hard to fix. And believe me, as a professional technical writer
I know that whenever anyone changes ANY text, it needs to be checked
again because errors have probably been introduced! So even a new
website will have these and need them fixed. I have played around
with web pages enough to make my own website and help a few friends,
and I know basic HTML, but I might not know everything that's
involved. But it doesn't look that "broken" to me, and not even that
outdated, though it's rather plain -- there are all sorts of websites
out there, in all sorts of styles. I also realize that from a web
designer's point of view it is more interesting and fun to create
something new than to do maintenance on existing code..
Melody
On 3/28/2011 11:42 AM, Leann Christenson wrote:
Let me try to illustrate what I think is going on. This is either
gonna make
it easier to understand or just confuse everyone.
The GGA pays Hostway each year for space (gga website), bandwidth, and
features (Board listserve).
The space holds our website (o=the GGA web at www.gekkota.com):
Space paid by GGA: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
space currently used: OOOOOOOOO
Britney was making a new website:
NNNNNNN
But instead of putting it "unpublished" on the Hostway site, she put the
unpublished GGA website on her own Host company's space. Naturally
she pays
for that space for her own website and 'volunteered' (whether she was
aware
of this or not) to put it on her site until it was done. Her
website, her
forum are all at her host site.
GGA's paid storage space at Hostway went utilized by Britney, for
reasons I
don't know.
(I don't have web building skills or web master skills, but I went to
the
GGA Hostway account management and figured out how to do some simple
stuff.
I changed the list serve to be used by the Board and I've updated
some GGA
pages.)
The unpublished GGA site could have been stored at Hostway. The
unpublished
GGA site, once complete, would simply become "published" and the old GGA
site would be "stored".
Recently, I copied Brittney's entire unpublished GGA website on my hard
drive.
I am not skilled enough to use her data and incorporate it in the old
website. But, I can change text in the old website and some pictures.
How do we do a new GGA website? A skilled web person and create a
new GGA
site on their desktop. The new site can be incorporated into the old
one or
simply replace the old one. Which will they choose to do? Depends
on their
skill levels.
Leann
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