New Area 5 Website

[JThompson]

Kyle and I spoke some time ago about the lack of an Area 5 website... basically, it expired and nothing was done about it as a new director was coming into office. I had them point it to the simple site I created a couple years ago for the A5 championship; This just so it wasn't pointed at an ad site.

Kyle gave me some direction and would like it to be, among other things, a home for any club within the area that doesn't have a website. This website will be the best area site out there. It will include calendars, forums and much more.

Here's the deal... I'm busy as hell and need a hand. The website will be Joomla CMS 2.5 with a yet to be determined theme. We need people cablable of working within the Joomla framework. We need people to blog, we need people to shoot video and photos for the site too. We would like the site to be a Cliffs notes to everything happening in the USPSA, but specifically Area 5.

We will pay all helpers the same wage as the webmaster. If you are interested in helping to make the best area site in the USPSA then hit me with a PM and let me know what you want/are able to do.

Area 5 has been homeless long enough, let's make the GM of area websites.

JT

PS Admin, would sticky this for us please...

J

Edited July 28, 2012 by JThompson

[furyalecto]

That's great. It is needed. My signature line

is gonna be this big.

Edited July 28, 2012 by furyalecto

[Reshoot]

This is GREAT news! And, a big thank you for stepping up Jim

Unfortunately, I do not have enough smarts to pitch in. Joomla who?

[JakeMartens]

Jim

my youtube page has bunches abd bunches of video from local matches, and the section matches

http://www.youtube.com/user/jakemartens

plus

photobucket has a bunch of pictures from matches

http://s1184.photobucket.com/albums/z338/jakemartens1/

battle in the bluegrass

http://photobucket.com/martensBITBIII

and the indiana section facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/#!/USPSAIndiana

and website

http://www.uspsaindiana.org/

now as far as helping, I do not know shit about how the webpage works, I paid goeff (on here) to set it up and he updates it for me

[Flexmoney]

One of the key things that I would like to see is a website that can be updated by many. Kinda like a wiki page. The thing that kills our (shooting) websites is that the webmaster moves on every so often. Such is life.

My desire is to have the front end work out so that the webmaster doesn't have to be the one making the updates and news releases. (I desire this for the USPSA website too, and will push that from my new position on the marketing committee.)

If we can make a great template here, and it is well received, perhaps it can work for others too.

(Thanks Jim!)

[BritinUSA]

I think you could use WordPress for the Blog application within your web-site which would (I believe) allow multiple select users to add Blog entries. News updates are easy, just use a twitter feed, go to their web-site set up the options and it will create the HTML code for the window, just bang that into the web-site and any user with the Twitter password can add short news items including links to blog entries or other web-sites.

If there are any photos of Area 5 shooters that you want to use from my web-site just let me know and I will provide them without the logo.

[JThompson]

Joomla is what you want, Wordpress works too, but I am more versed in Joomla. You can have anyone with sufficient rights post or submit articles pages, upload video photos etc. I know it will do what you want it too, but just have to find the damned time to do it. This is also an option where you don't need to know a bunch of code to do something...

To do it right you need to have back-up software in place and some security measures which need to be constantly updated and looked after. This is one area I wish we could have some funds to use to buy what we need in terms of hosting and software, perhaps even get a few bucks for the time that gets put in. It's hard to justify spending a lot of hours to build a state of the art site when you have to neglect other stuff to do it.

Anyway, we will get it done, but it sure would be nice to get a little help.

JT

[jrb06]

To do it right you need to have back-up software in place and some security measures which need to be constantly updated and looked after. This is one area I wish we could have some funds to use to buy what we need in terms of hosting and software, perhaps even get a few bucks for the time that gets put in. It's hard to justify spending a lot of hours to build a state of the art site when you have to neglect other stuff to do it.

Anyway, we will get it done, but it sure would be nice to get a little help.

How much money are we talking here per year $1,000-$2,000 and how many active clubs are in area 5. Maybe a small donation from each club for every match they host would cover it. If there are 30 clubs in area 5 and each donated $1-$2 per match it be enough.

[JakeMartens]

To do it right you need to have back-up software in place and some security measures which need to be constantly updated and looked after. This is one area I wish we could have some funds to use to buy what we need in terms of hosting and software, perhaps even get a few bucks for the time that gets put in. It's hard to justify spending a lot of hours to build a state of the art site when you have to neglect other stuff to do it.

Anyway, we will get it done, but it sure would be nice to get a little help.

How much money are we talking here per year $1,000-$2,000 and how many active clubs are in area 5. Maybe a small donation from each club for every match they host would cover it. If there are 30 clubs in area 5 and each donated $1-$2 per match it be enough.

Each Area has an advertising budget that the Area Director can use

clubs are already sending activity fees into USPSA

[JThompson]

It wouldn't take all that much for hosting and software. I'll speak with Kyle on it when I get ready to roll.

JT

[wgnoyes]

It shouldn't take anything for hosting. Several of the area-level websites are already hosted on uspsa.org's web server at no cost. Contact Rob Boudrie and see if he would be interested in carving you out some space for uspsa5.org.

UPDATE: uspsa5.org is already held by USPSA, so hosting is already carved off on the uspsa web servers. It just needs someone to get in touch with Rob for the particulars of how to start uploading material.

Edited August 21, 2012 by wgnoyes

[edwin garcia]

Joomla! framework seems to work well for us in tss TSS website. We migrated early this year after years of static html. It does have the features mentioned above: blogging, access control rights, social media integration, video/photo upload, etc. Our shooters heavily use it to upload local club match results, although there are more features that they're not using.

I think joomla! has a steeper learning curve due to availability of related documentation. But it does have ample amount of plug-ins/extensions for specific requirements.

I haven't had experience with Wordpress but it seems there are also communities of WP developers that can do amazing stuff.

Let me know if there's anything I can help with.

Edwin