Is the New Home page temporary or is this it. I liked the RSS feeds for the latest disscusions.boGSer
Apologies for the peremptory response earlier. :-[For a whole bunch of reasons, most of them precipitated by the change of personnel after the last AGM, a lot of work needed to be done to our website. (This has not a lot to do with the previous Executive, or the current one, but more to do with the site having been cobbled together on an ad hoc basis to fit with what folk needed to do with it. Change the people, change the circumstances, problem time.)The Shop is still crippled, and the Membership area is now back up, but limping just as much as it did before. I have the shop (and payment for events) very high on my list of urgent things to do, but I need input from elsewhere (expected shortly) to get cracking on them.The plain vanilla look is my fault, and if you all lobby the Executive and complain about it, I will just have to flick back to the older files when they tell me to. One of the things I have tried to achieve is to get information about the Register presented to the world with a minimum of javascript and other bells and whistles, in pages that will be reasonably viewable in the increasingly popular, smaller, hand-held gadgets folk use for browsing, and in a text size that the Librarian (f'rinstance) doesn't leave nostril marks on the monitor from having to nearly climb inside it to read. Yes, I know CTRL and + will fix that, but my wife and thousands of others don't, and if you had tried it on some pages of the old site you would have run into problems with columns overflowing and getting obscured.The alternative to my efforts was to go out and spend a similar amount of the BMWOR members' money on a professional job to what was spent last time around.I'm waiting for the reaction from the masses, no doubt the Executive will be listening as well. I understand your point about the RSS feeds on the previous frontpage, and I appreciate that some folk came into the Forum on a regular basis via that channel. To be honest, apart from checking that the site was functioning, and that not every day, I normally start from this page: http://bmwor.org.nz/forum/index.php?action=recentI haven't had time to think through the news feeds yet: logically I would put them in the left column of the homepage, except I used that to get the discount info right in front of members (to save myself answering all the emails about, "Where do I find?" 😀 )The "News" tab on the frontpage menu is (at this point) still pointing at Garry's Blogger feed.Nobody likes change, the older we get, the less we like it. After the hours I've put into thunking and writing on this one, I feel seriously old! I can only assure anybody that wants to comment, request, report broken links, offer to assist, we're listening. Of course, if you want to be critical (which the question about the RSS feeds was not), then talk to my hand, 'cos my face isn't listening. 8)
