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.
Sounds good - yeah a link to the blog would be great!
map to the boat house
weils disease info
Fresher of the year/dee cup/committee history?
photo gallery if it was likely to be updated?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Oooh, yeah lets try getting rid of signatures. :D
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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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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.)
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?
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!!!
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.
Quote from: Bill C on 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?
Only by logged-in members.
Quote from: Peegor on 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!!!
yeah definitely, and when wwe had the dates of the trips we could put them in so people had a very vague idea as to the trip being on and could sort out logistics - getting the weekend off etc...
Quote from: Matt on April 13, 2011, 12:54:57
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.
yeah if they were hosted on the side of top of the forum or some other page could be cool...
i agree about the signatures (i'm not really pushed either way) but certainly if, at the beginning of the year at least, they were removed to make life easier for freshers trying to figure out the board..
Quote from: Bill C on 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?
Logged in only. Good thing you asked me that, would have been impossible for you to check :P
You want a calender function similar to the one on canoeing Ireland. Basically as you lock down dates you can have them in a calender. Basically you know when you've freshers and kerry. Colours are decided between you and Trinity. Varsities is decided by whom so ever is hosting. Easkey is the bank holiday in June and Achil is the august bank holiday.
Then you'd add training weekends when you've them planned.
Big clickable links on the homepage to the facebook page, Twitter account and blog!
A list of past committees, FOTY, Dee Cup recipients, results at varsities would be really cool.
Photos and videos on flickr and vimeo also cool.
Ooh, this could get exciting :D
As for the introduction for freshers section, we could have a section aimed at freshers (like Kayaking, General Banter but adding one that's called Calling All Freshers! or something similarly obvious) That could be a good place for basic information (what is a thermal/weils and similarly useful beginner info, maybe basic descriptions of the rivers we run, trips we go on, to pique interest) this way new members could focus on one area to begin with as the forum can be a bit overwhelming at first.
I dont wanna go overboard on polo here buuuut.... we have two teams atm and if polo gets enough attention/interest next year we might have more people playing and training - especially with the pool....
So how about a polo section? It could highlight DCPL games, training, rules and video features, Summer Competitions like docklands etc. etc. etc.... ???
Quote from: Matt Flood on April 13, 2011, 17:25:22
So how about a polo section? It could highlight DCPL games, training, rules and video features, Summer Competitions like docklands etc. etc. etc.... ???
Can the kayaking section be divided up within the section? Or maybe start putting team stuff in committee announcements and then have a general polo rules/events thread as a sticky in kayaking
Quote from: Matt Flood on April 13, 2011, 17:25:22
I dont wanna go overboard on polo here buuuut.... we have two teams atm and if polo gets enough attention/interest next year we might have more people playing and training - especially with the pool....
So how about a polo section? It could highlight DCPL games, training, rules and video features, Summer Competitions like docklands etc. etc. etc.... ???
Yeah! I think there'd be enough use of it!
At the moment we have one section called "Kayaking" given that we are a kayaking club, that is a bit general.
We could experiment with more focused titles
"River Running" "Polo" "Freestyle" and "Whitewater"
or "Competitions" "Training" "Private Trips"
Hmm, some configuration of the above...
I'd be in favour of trying the first combination, we wouldn't want to have sections that aren't used, but having sections dedicated to specific disciplines could encourage more activity and interest, maybe give a bit of a boost!
Yeah, you have to be careful with that stuff, boards on forums always live on a balance - too specific and the forum will die, too general and stuff can get lost.
I think on balance the best solution here is to put polo events in the announcements section. Different boards for ww / freestyle / polo / k1 / dinghy waterfall decents will make for too much fragmentation.
In fact I am more inclined to merge boards where possible (like i merged for sale and wanted into a buy and sell board, and merging the funny quotes and swims section)
In terms of free space left on the board, do we really need archives like the intervarsities and alps from the days long gone?
Would it benefitial to us to get rid of them? Make the board quicker to load or something??? I could be talking shite, but I'm sure you computer guys will know if it makes any sense.... ^-^
Just for reference, the trinity board has a polo & competitions section with only 60 threads in over 2 years. And that includes slalom comps and things like colligan/wacko. Their general banter has over 1,800 threads, but in 6 and a half years.
I like it as mark has it now, except I'd maybe put the announcements/saturday trips at the top.
For freshers you've a series of pages off the main board, perhaps sticky threads. Introductions, What to wear when kayaking, general advice on what gear to buy and when. Then you try to build up the resources i.e the alps bible, Kerry plans and the Kilkenny diaries. For those of you now scratching your head, the Alps bible was created from a number of trips to the alps and provided a framework for doing a large trip to the alps. The Kerry plans was a series of threads which would have lists of rivers and potential other new years destinations. The Kilkenny Diaries were more of a satirical reoprt on freshers.
Quote from: Matt Flood on April 13, 2011, 18:18:32
In terms of free space left on the board, do we really need archives like the intervarsities and alps from the days long gone?
Would it benefitial to us to get rid of them? Make the board quicker to load or something??? I could be talking shite, but I'm sure you computer guys will know if it makes any sense.... ^-^
Hehe, that wouldn't effect load times on the board at all, and in general its nice to hold on to archived posts!
Quote from: Mark on April 13, 2011, 19:23:10
Quote from: Matt Flood on April 13, 2011, 18:18:32
In terms of free space left on the board, do we really need archives like the intervarsities and alps from the days long gone?
Would it benefitial to us to get rid of them? Make the board quicker to load or something??? I could be talking shite, but I'm sure you computer guys will know if it makes any sense.... ^-^
Hehe, that wouldn't effect load times on the board at all, and in general its nice to hold on to archived posts!
Awww I feel so stupid now. Knew I shouldnt have said anything.... :-X
Quote from: Evan on April 13, 2011, 18:30:14
Just for reference, the trinity board has a polo & competitions section with only 60 threads in over 2 years. And that includes slalom comps and things like colligan/wacko. Their general banter has over 1,800 threads, but in 6 and a half years.
I like it as mark has it now, except I'd maybe put the announcements/saturday trips at the top.
I hear ya, but it all honesty, there are no slalom competitions for colleges and rarely any in general. TCD also never played polo properly until now, so theres likely to be no posts up in that section. But we've 2 teams and are much more proactive (or at least plan to be next year..... cough*training officer*cough) :D
Oh, and the clock which tells you when the post was posted is an hour slow... :police:
Trinity won the varsities Polo in 2009, so they've been playing polo seriously since they got their pool!
I do think just a polo section would be good not the other stuff.
Kayaking section, videos, articles and just general boating, links to kayak sites sticky thread. General section for everything that doesn't fit elsewhere.
Training section links to training websites, training days, also polo training sites.
Trips: annoucing trips for the club.
Committee anoucements ie news, this is where you would have your calender for the year, also lost and found list after each weekend away(which would never happen if we allowed my suggestion of tying all your stuff together with knicker elastic).
Gear this would be the buy and sell section.
I know this goes against the theme of merging unused boards, but would it make sense to split General Banter into a purely Off-Topic / Miscellaneous board, and one for Non-Kayaking Events? General Banter seems to get a good mix of people looking for DVD nights, cinema trips, etc, vs This Or That and random youtube videos and their ilk.
matts map to the pool in cabra (found in the post about tonights match). its very good and very funny. up with boathouse map etc or sticky topic in kayaking or polo if you do it
"River guides" button linking to Irish Whitewater river guides section
Also, how tricky would it be to get the disco paddler logo into the icon spot to the left of the URL bar on browsers?