Re: [GSAS-board] Web site stuff

["Phil Lacefield Jr." <phil@lacefield.com>]

>>We have ALWAYS provided a list of donor companies on the website after the 
>>auction -- kept on for a whole year.  In fact, there's a list right now 
>>showing all the donors of last year.  Take a look.  Really.  Red Sea is even 
>>on there.  It's been on there since last year.

Okay, well, where is it?  I've clicked on every link on the main page, and I 
don't see any mention of Red Sea, sponsors, auctions or anything else.  That 
kind of info, if not in banner form, should be really prominent, I'd think.

>> See for instance, 
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/convention.html

Wow, that list is perfect!  As the guy doing the hounding for sponsorship this 
year, I'd be more than happy to make that list for our site.  Hell, who do I 
ask at the AGA about getting their contact list for the folks listed here??  :-)

>>cluttery banner ads that we are OBLIGATED to display due to a purchase 
>>agreement, and pointless link exchanges with any club that asks us, etc.

What is it about link exchanges you don't like?  I'm not being critical, I just 
don't get it.  I mean, we're a club with, what, under 100 members?  Why would 
we not want to share a link to our club with other clubs, and share their links 
with our members?  If there's some precedent for this, or some reason we don't 
want to, I'm all ears...

>>I'll tell you now, if that new logo ends up on it, I quit.  Otherwise, have a 
>>blast!

What, the one with the colors and extra bits I put in?  You don't like it??  
This makes Log Boy sad :-(  Seriously, I don't want you to quit the club over 
such a silly thing, tell me what you don't like and I'll change it...

>>I have been asking the board for years to have someone else take over the 
>>content management of the website (and even the hosting and domain name if 
>>the board wants).  I know I've been doing a half-assed (or quarter-assed) job.

I'm more than happy to do the job - not like I haven't done websites before, 
they just take time to manage, as you well know - but I really don't want you 
quitting over the designs I use, or if I put up the wrong logo or something.  
Erik, you're a valuable member of this group, and I for one don't want to be 
responsible for chasing you away!

Phil



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