New Website!

[Sue Clancy]

After several months of work in between sailing excursions, we are ready to launch a newly redesigned C34.org website.  The new site will be made live this evening so check back tomorrow to see how it looks.  During this time, the forum should work fine but the main site c34.org may be unavailable during the implementation.

This effort is based on feedback from many of you and work done by myself and a committee including Rick Allen, Stu Jackson, Dave Sanner and some help from Jack Hutteball.  Our goal was primarily to bring the site into some updated technology and make it easier to use and update including better visibility on mobile devices. 

We will provide more info highlighting some of the changes after the launch.

[Craig Illman]

 

[DaveBMusik]

Thank you for all of your work!

[Mick Laver]

Thanks much, Sue!

[csimmerling]

I logged in and was so pleasantly surprised! Beautiful job! 

[Sue Clancy]

The new website

I wanted to point out a few highlights and next steps for the new website.

• New Design - of course we had to make it look more modern but it is also easier to read on mobile devices
• Quick access to our most used features including the forum, tech notes and the tech wiki
• Easier to manage fleet sections including news about each fleet
• More appropriate places to put organizational news rather than on the forum - stuff that needs to stay around
• Better search - the entire site including the forum should now be able to be searched right from the top of every page with a built in Google search (full indexing may take a little time)
• A new member database - Our old member databases were out of date so we decided to create a new one that members can manage themselves.  go to http://c34.org/owner-database/ and put in your own information.
• An updated view of our Flickr site - http://c34.org/photo-gallery/ share your pictures with the group.
• Easy content updates - Anyone that can use a word processor and is authorized can update the content on the site - no special technical or html skills are required.
  

Coming soon

An updated view of the tech notes/Mainsheet articles that is easier to manage and a master index that is easier to use

Again thanks to the committee for their experience and feedback throughout this process.

[Stu Jackson]

I recommend that you all click on the upper left C34 Home link.  The new look is fantastic, shows the important material and includes the important Google search button right there.

All thanks is due to Sue who did all the work. 

[Jim Hardesty]

I'm still getting the old 2001 home page.  Is there anything I need to do but click on the C34 Home?
Jim

[Sue Clancy]

You may have the page cached. Try to reload it in your browser.

[britinusa]

Looking Good - REALLY GOOD!

Great job.

Is the Forum template changing too?

http://c34.org/index.html needs to be updated too.

Paul

[Paulus]

Thanks,
Very user friendly. 
Paul

[Sue Clancy]

Thanks, we have taken care of the  index.html page

[Roc]

How come I see no difference?

[Sue Clancy]

Reload the page. Your browser is caching it.

[Jim Hardesty]

I've tried that with no success. Looks great on my phone.