Where’s the Original Home Page Gone?

What! you can’t be missing that loveless text filled horror story, surely?

If you really want to recap on what the original information page said at the Home page of this site then all the original content is below.

If you landed here from a search engine, close your eyes now and click here for the new home page.

Home

I am just in the process of rebuilding the web site. I was never happy with the previous web site and since discovering WordPress I think you will all agree that the new site will be well worth waiting for. For now this front page is just an information page but if you look around the rest of the site you will get a flavour of what’s to come.. A much prettier and meaningful page will appear here once most members have had the chance to read it and register. (that also goes for any visitors to our site, please look around, our other pages are far more interesting than this!)

What’s new in this site?

In a nutshell, this:

• The site is much more interactive, you will be able to discuss, debate and participate in every part of the site
• Find information much easier and faster, using the navigation, tags, or categories or the search box.
• You will be able to pay for subs and enter/pay for competitions through the web site. If you can’t make it into the club then this could be a good option for you.
• You can set up payments to be one-time or monthly recurring, for example you will pay for a competition by using one time payments, you could use monthly recurring to pay your subs. you could also pay a whole year’s subs using the one-time payment also…
• The ability to make payments will come in the next few weeks, you can still use the entry form to enter the competition on the competition page in the meantime see here
• Blog – members will be able to post information on the site, anyone can comment on your posts, this is the discussion aspect see the blog.
• We will start advertising on the site, hopefully this will contribute to the society. This will rely heavily on ALL members contributing and thereby making the site popular, if you don’t bother posting new content then don’t expect the advertising to work.

You want something adding to the site?

If you have anything that you want to be added to the site then please let me know now as there is a window open for requests until end January 2010. After that it will be whenever the next update to the site happens, which will probably not be until the end of the summer 2010.

The new site should be available by the middle of January 2010 but will be getting developed on an ongoing basis for about six weeks after the launch. Just keep checking back and remember if you want to request something on the site then just ask me.

What is a Blog?

For the people who live in dark corners, the blog is just news and discussions, it’s not called ‘news’ because it’s interactive and isn’t just restricted to ‘news events’ we can use it for anything that we want. The aim is to get everyone in the society contributing regularly and hopefully some external people too.. the more popular the blog gets the better it will be. You can even access it through your mobile phone… those who have one (it’s a wireless device, not a radio, that you use to talk to other people on – like an audio blog!)

Cheers,

Daz Lunn.