[sac-board] Re: [sac-forum] Re: T-Bird Star Party

But, it's getting better with regards to errors... right?  :-)
As a point of information, I will say that my predecessor, Stan, has the 
site well organized internally. This may not sound like a big deal - but 
it is. All that I have done, so far, is to apply a cascading style sheet 
to all (or almost all) of the pages, thereby giving them the same style 
attributes (colors, fonts, etc.).

At some point in the future I would like to implement an 'upgrade' in 
the SAC site. I'm sure we've all seen websites that employ a very 
professional design; they look consistently fantastic from page to page 
and they are easy to navigate. Needless to say (at least I hope 
additional commentary isn't necessary here) that entails a tremendous 
amount of work - it is no small task. However, there is a way to 
implement such a major change while saving a good bit (certainly not 
all) of the work. And that is by purchasing a pre-designed site layout. 
This is actually very common. The prices are quite reasonable, unless 
you want exclusivity.
Anyway, that's food for thought on future activities.

Peter

Jennifer Polakis wrote:
> I'd like to chime in and say that our web-site basically sucks, often 
> contains errors that need to be fixed in more than one place, and is 
> generally not up to par with say EVAC's site which is most excellent 
> .  And, what is more,  it use to be a lot worse before Stan fixed it 
> up a hundred years ago.
>
> But seeing as how I know absolutely nothing about how to fix it and 
> don't care to take on the task, I  can only request corrections.  Now 
> that Peter has taken on this project, things get fixed promptly which 
> was not the case before Peter.  I probably should have thought to 
> making sure there was a big page on the site for this event but just 
> didn't think to it.  I do know that if Jeff or anyone would have 
> brought it up earlier, Peter could have and would have gotten to it
>
> Maybe one of these days, we can look to a serious redo of the entire 
> site taking input from members/board and looking at other astroclubs 
> sites as kind of a guide.  Until then, if you note an error or 
> omission, just let Peter know.
>
> For this event like the last hundred or so public events Jack arranged 
> and posted, I just forward and print his message to invite folks out 
> for the starparty--seems to work pretty good.
>
> So thanks for Jack and thanks for Peter & Stan and thanks for folks 
> like Jeff who drag their scopes out into the light dome to promote 
> astronomy by knocking the socks of city dwelling kids and adults who 
> have never even seen the Moon through a scope.  Let's keep it up-all 
> the time remaining proactive--we're on a good roll.
>
> Jennifer, VP
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Tejera" <saguaroastro@xxxxxxx>
> To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:14 PM
> Subject: [sac-forum] Re: T-Bird Star Party
>
>
>> All I'll chime in with, is we have had announcements for T-Bird with 
>> details
>> & maps on the website in the past. As I mentioned earlier, It just looks
>> like that fell through the cracks this year.
>>
>> Time to move on.
>>
>> Clear Skies
>>
>> Rick Tejera
>>
>> Editor SACnews
>>
>> Saguaro Astronomy Club
>>
>> Phoenix, Arizona
>>
>> www.saguaroastro.org
>>
>> saguaroastro@xxxxxxx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Jack Jones
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 16:06
>> To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [sac-forum] Re: T-Bird Star Party
>>
>> Don't really know what you are talking about. And this is off-topic for
>> Forum
>> and should be on the Board mail list. You should get on the SAC-Board 
>> mail
>> list if you want to participate in planning Club events or come to 
>> the Board
>>
>> meetings. We planned the 2008 event in mid-Oct 07 where I solicited 
>> Event
>> dates from the Board, and had follow-up discussions with inputs of 
>> concerns
>> and some good ideas and pinning stuff down in mid-Feb. There were a 
>> dozen or
>>
>> so emails back and forth. I've noticed we typically get several 
>> innovative
>> or
>> otherwise 'suggestions' and 'why-did/didn't you-do-this/that' shortly 
>> before
>>
>> every Club event, esp Messier Marathon and T-Bird party. The good 
>> ideas we
>> try
>> to incorp or incorp into the next party after, and the bad ones 
>> usually get
>> dropped immed. or forgotten over time. The webpage idea is a good one I
>> think,
>> and we thank you, and it will be incorp by next Spring (I hope) 
>> (Remember
>> Glendale will not do the Fall event anymore due to budget 
>> constraints). No I
>>
>> would never expect and would never ask Pete to do something like that on
>> such
>> short notice.
>>
>> Jack Jones
>> Phoenix AZ
>> Telescoper@xxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Hopkins" <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:03 AM
>> Subject: [sac-forum] Re: T-Bird Star Party
>>
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> Indeed!
>>
>> Highly promoted!  Someone hears about the SAC T-Bird star party and
>> goes to the SAC web site to find out more. Dead end. Sure if they
>> searched through the calendars they might find it listed, but little
>> information and certainly no promotion.
>>
>> Why didn't one of the board members put together a web page like
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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