[QCWA Hotlist] QCWA Hotlist Reflector - website

[Bob Roske]

Hi Fritz,

All 222 Chapters have a webpage at www.qcwa.org/chapterNNN.htm   NNN is the 
chapter number between 001 and 222 for now.

For 43 Chapters, all this file does is forward the web surfer to a home page 
that is maintained by the chapter on a different web server.

Chapter 212 is one of 2 chapters that create their own html and forwards 
those files to me to be installed on the QCWA web server.

So, yes, all the chapters started with a standard template, some have little 
more than that now.

Can the ability for a chapter officer to download information to a chapters 
webpage become a possibility?  Not anytime soon(read over a year).  Not soon 
enough to meet your current situation.

Between moving HQ twice, activating the Members Only webpage and the Chapter 
Officers section on that page there has been little time to add anything 
else.  I don't see much of a slow down the rest of this year and most of 
next.

I've looked at the html in your files, it's been created using Microsoft 
Front Page V6.0.  This makes maintaining the site without this software 
package almost impossible.  There are many extra line of code that in some 
cases don't do anything, but some genius at MS thinks they are needed!

This isn't a bash against MS, just a statement of fact.  They have 5 lines 
of code at the bottom of index.htm.  All they do is start a paragraph, 
center a space charter using CSS formatting and close the paragraph.  Very 
useful indeed!  All it does is add blank space to the bottom of the page. 
Five line feeds would do the same thing and take 200 less characters to 
accomplish.

Now to solve Chapter 212s situation, I see several possibilities.
1. With the Journal becoming a monthly, digital publication; there is the 
possibility of using it as a chapter newsletter.  There will be word count 
and number of picture restrictions but nothing like the printed Journal had 
and they haven't been defined yet.  At least, not that I know of, a 
committee is looking into it.  The only obstacle is lead time, the 
information needs to be submitted to the editor before the 1st of the prior 
month (before Jan 1st for the Feb edition).

2. The chapter buys Front Page and a member (or spouse) continues to 
maintain the site and send me the files.

3. And I really don't want to do this one, I can take over the site.  I see 
10 to 15 hours of programming (in my spare time) just to get your web pages 
consistent and maintainable.  We would work out a method of getting your 
updates done in a timely fashion.

Some combination of 1 and 3 would probably work best with the on-line site 
shrinking is size as information is added to the Journal.

What's your pleasure President Fritz?

73,
Bob Roske, NØUF
Webmaster QCWA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fritz" <wd8e at arrl.net>
To: <qcwahotlist at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:31 AM
Subject: [QCWA Hotlist] QCWA Hotlist Reflector - website


> Good Morning,
>
>
>
> Our chapter, as I assume others as well, has found it difficult to have a
> full time chapter web master.  With all the changes occurring within QCWA
> now might be a good time to streamline the web site process.
>
>
>
> I am asking the following question as a web novice.  Would it be possible
> for QCWA to have a standard template web page where a chapter officer 
> could
> upload pictures and articles to the chapter website?  The web site could
> have meeting information, current pictures, etc in a standard format,
> nothing fancy just functional.
>
>
>
> If possible this would be of great value to our chapter and I expect 
> others
> as well.  Since a web sites is the current chapter billboard keeping it up
> to date is important but, difficult to impossible for many to accomplish.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your consideration in resolving this nagging issue.
>
>
>
>
>
> 73 & Good DX
>
> Fritz WD8E QCWA # 32028
>
> President Mid Ohio Chapter 212
>
>
>
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