Our New Website

Antoennis

Hi Lads,

We recently set up a new website for our club. Its basic enough but will be a nice place to share pics for the club.

Just thought i'd share to see what you think. Have ye any idea's how to improve?


www.csaac.net

Sparks

It's not bad for a first take on it, but the key to a useful website for your club members is to update the content regularly; and you might find after a while that having something a bit more complex on the backend of the website (such as Wordpress - Joomla or Drupal are handy as well, but far more complicated to learn and a darn sight more than you need until you want to start taking online bookings or stuff like that) will actually make that enormously easier.

But for now, just focus on putting up news and keeping it up to date with the system you have. If, after a few months, there's still interest, then push on to something more complex.

deerhunter1

Antoennis wrote: »

Hi Lads,

We recently set up a new website for our club. Its basic enough but will be a nice place to share pics for the club.

Just thought i'd share to see what you think. Have ye any idea's how to improve?


www.csaac.net

Well done and best of luck to ye for the future:)

dCorbus

Well done, lads.
Fair play - It's great to see a gun club out there on the interweb.:)
dC

sikastag

Well done, best of luck with it.

Antoennis

Thanks for the all the replies lads.

Bananaman

Well done.

is that a heron with a big ass pike in his gob? - great photo.

B'Man

Double Barrel

Antoennis

Keep the site interesting and the news updated and you will have a winner.
Looks like you are in need contest for a club motto, maybe something along the lines of Res ipsa loquitur. :rolleyes:

Good luck with the endeavour.

marlin vs

Very good Antoennis, well done, I shot up there about 20 year ago around a major bog and it was full of snipe a lovely area.Best of luck.

cavan shooter

Sparks wrote: »

It's not bad for a first take on it, but the key to a useful website for your club members is to update the content regularly; and you might find after a while that having something a bit more complex on the backend of the website (such as Wordpress - Joomla or Drupal are handy as well, but far more complicated to learn and a darn sight more than you need until you want to start taking online bookings or stuff like that) will actually make that enormously easier.

But for now, just focus on putting up news and keeping it up to date with the system you have. If, after a few months, there's still interest, then push on to something more complex.

I put up a club website through bravenet and havent updated in a while, you now have me planning an hour or two. Id say I cant even remember the passwords

Sparks

Well, most hosting companies will be able to install wordpress with two or three clicks; and if that sounds like too much trouble, go to www.wordpress.com and you can get a free site with wordpress installed, so you could have http://randomshootingclub.wordpress.com for no money and no technical effort and then you can chuck stuff up onto it with the same kind of webpage you use for posting in here.

(meaning that if you can post in here, you can post content there just as easily, you don't need a techie to help).

daveob007

website looks good lads,best of luck with the whole thing,just keep updating the site with new info,firearm safety,tip for neewbies etc and maybe some links to other clubs and dealers.

pullandbang

Antoennis wrote: »

Hi Lads,

We recently set up a new website for our club. Its basic enough but will be a nice place to share pics for the club.

Just thought i'd share to see what you think. Have ye any idea's how to improve?


www.csaac.net

Am I missing something here? The link brings me here.......

Dusty87

Same as that PandB. Thats what i keep getting:(

Sparks

I'd say it's just a whoopsie lads, the site was grand when I went there at the start of the thread....

Antoennis

Thanks for all the replies lads. I have had to take the site down as a couple of memebers had a problem with it. We are going to have a meeting about it on Friday night. I really think they are full of sh*t but have to go with it.

Sparks

Just remember the GAA debate surrounding the first televising of GAA matches Antoennis - people were utterly convinced that television would destroy the GAA within a year or two.

Antoennis

Yap and the same people that complain are the ones that never do anything. Ask them to look after hoppers, vermin traps or anything nope can't do that. They have fecken time enough to complain.

bunny shooter

Antoennis wrote: »

Yap and the same people that complain are the ones that never do anything. Ask them to look after hoppers, vermin traps or anything nope can't do that. They have fecken time enough to complain.

Every club is exactly the same :rolleyes:

Sparks

Yup. We used to have a guideline that if you were complaining, you were expected to either have an idea and/or be willing to step up to fix the problem...

Antoennis

Sparks wrote: »

Yup. We used to have a guideline that if you were complaining, you were expected to either have an idea and/or be willing to step up to fix the problem...

Good idea.