Stuff the website needs

Mark · April 12, 2011, 11:08:24

About Us
Contact Us (with committee contact details)
Code of Practice + Constitution
Weils Disease Info
Boathouse Map.
Blog (you guys reckon you'd keep that up to date?)
Better Trip Sign up
News Page (what was on the old front page)
History of past committee members and trophy winners.
Links page
Easy introduction page for freshers.
photo and video gallery on the cloud.

Eoghan · April 12, 2011, 11:39:41

Sounds good - yeah a link to the blog would be great!

Carla! · April 12, 2011, 12:36:46

map to the boat house
weils disease info

rog · April 12, 2011, 13:26:50

Fresher of the year/dee cup/committee history?

Tiny Tim · April 12, 2011, 13:58:02

photo gallery if it was likely to be updated?

kmck · April 12, 2011, 14:08:09

How big did the previous photo gallery get? Why not just have linking facility with facebook or flickr? Save us having to host the pictures, pretty cloud.

Mark · April 12, 2011, 14:57:49

Quote from: kmck on April 12, 2011, 14:08:09
How big did the previous photo gallery get? Why not just have linking facility with facebook or flickr? Save us having to host the pictures, pretty cloud.

Yep, i think photo and video hosting will be done on the cloud. perhaps vimeo and flickr respectively.

Evan · April 12, 2011, 15:18:40

Quote from: rog on April 12, 2011, 13:26:50
Fresher of the year/dee cup/committee history?

I like that idea. Except, what exactly is a committee history? How about a list of captains? Or are there too many gaps. I think that could be nice, especially with the anniversary coming up.

How about the constitution?

Jer · April 12, 2011, 15:23:35

Some freshers were complaining about making accounts being confusing.
Fresher friendly (first time visiting the website) main page where the forum, blog, signing up, upcoming river trips can all be linked to.
Maybe get rid of the "signatures" as they just add clutter.
Anything really to make the website look clean and accessible.

Mark · April 12, 2011, 15:31:27

Oooh, yeah lets try getting rid of signatures.

Darïna · April 12, 2011, 21:30:01

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Maybe add somewhere (seperately or with something else) a timeline/list of activities that will happen like Lahinch, Kerry, Canoe Club Ball, Intervarsities etc. just so people know of events in advance. You can also include a couple of things that happen (fancy dress, kayak surfing, whatever) and/or give an explanation about it.

Weils disease -> Link to wikipedia? Or an alternate website if that's better.

I also agree with the map to the boathouse. Pictures, written directions, hell a guided tour even (alright, maybe that's a bit much). I still have no idea how I got there the first time or where I came from...

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Mark · April 12, 2011, 23:59:20

Unless there is bloody war over bringing the signatures back, i think we are better off without them - they only get used for jokes. there is plenty of room for that with custom taglines and avatars in your picture, and that stays to the left of where discussion is happening. I'd like to try it out for a while, but of course the committee get final say.

Avatars just being resized by javascript again now, but its not really an OK solution, because the animated gifs are distracting, take up a lot of space, and js resizing retains the same file size.

I've deleted a few of the posts, as it has derailed the point of the thread.

Site should also have
Links section (to other clubs + freinds of the clubs blogs etc.)

Bill C · April 13, 2011, 10:05:36

The new combined swims and quotes section: is it readable by anyone or is it only readable by logged-in members, as with the general banter section?

Peegor · April 13, 2011, 10:46:03

A kayak game perhaps?

Leading on from the news headlines idea, what would you think about weather forecast and showing what the level of the precipitation will be for the coming week? It gives everyone an idea if there'll be rain.

Also, why not put up information about the rivers that we run. A couple of photo's and a bacground on them. Decription of the features that they have etc etc

I wouldn't mind even doing this section!!!

Matt · April 13, 2011, 12:54:57

Quote from: Peegor on April 13, 2011, 10:46:03
Leading on from the news headlines idea, what would you think about weather forecast and showing what the level of the precipitation will be for the coming week? It gives everyone an idea if there'll be rain.

Also, why not put up information about the rivers that we run. A couple of photo's and a bacground on them. Decription of the features that they have etc etc

A Links section with links to sites like Met Éireann and Met Check for weather and Irish Whitewater for river guides would be good for that, I think.

Stuff the website needs

Jer