Dear Subscribers Well, it's nearly done, the new website that is. I hope to put it up for scrutiny next week or so.I have been working hard out on it for the last few days now, just getting the look and feel right of it all plus getting the various scripts to work.
Whats new? Well everything really, I started from scratch so the site looks very different from what is was. I thought it might be a good idea to do it this way, as I could get rid of a lot of old and outdated stuff. There will be an archive for some of the more memorable items for those interested in old stuff. I adapted the keep it simple method making updates the more easier. I also wanted the graphical content lowered to help load the pages faster.
Images To help load the page faster I have made use of an image rotator that does just that. It rotates a series of images in a random manner. I received some feedback from you stating that we needed some updated images hence the use of this script. Every time you visit the front page the image is changed making it look different every time.
Here's looking at you.
Here's one way you can help. Send me some images for this script, the more images I have the better as you will not likely see the same image twice in one visit. The theme for this script is "NZKA Members Having Fun". The photo's should be of nzka members flying a kite or doing something kite related. Please don't send images in poster format, they eat bandwidth at my server. All I need is an image with the following dimensions; 400 pixels wide by 400 pixels high, jpg, jpeg or gif format, either is ok. Send these to: webmaster@nzka.org.nz
Rss Feed What is that you ask? It is the one line scroller at the top of the page. It streams information gathered from a text file that you as a member can manipulate. Here is the description for RSS direct from wikipedia.
News feed page
Now nzka members like yourself can add content in the form of edible text directly to the site. That content is instantly accessible through the latest news page. The 5 or so newest items will be displayed in the feeder at the top of the front page. So get connected and have your say. You will of course need to have password access.
Members pages
Apart from having the news items, I am unsure if we need a separate section for this. Over the last few years this feature had had very little or no use. Perhaps this could go before committee to decide. I will have it available at the new site nevertheless and all those who were issued with passwords will be transferred over to the new site. If yours doesn't work, use the forgotten password link. With the new site, it is automated.
So what does it look like?
Here is a screen shot of what I have as from today, the heading will change slightly but the layout will be as per image below. Of course the URL wil be the same familiar www.nzka.org.nz. This site will be down for about 10 hours as I place the new version up and do some more on line testing. A splash screen will take it's place until the work has been done. The new look can be seen below.
, just getting the look and feel right of it all plus getting the various scripts to work.
