[Rhodes22-list] A New Website?

[Jesse Shumaker]

Looks good Peter!  The photo on the main page represents the R22 well.
Thanks for taking the initiative on this.  As you mentioned, the reference
pages and photo gallery have content worth keeping.

On the Email List page, I see that there is a way to access the archives.
I had been using the search feature on Nabble instead.  Perhaps it is worth
linking to  http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/ as well so people can
search and don't have to comb through the archives manually.  However, you
would probably want to make a disclaimer about the preferred method to post
via email so that the attachments are kept with the email list rather than
Nabble.

Under the document library, perhaps we could post additional checklists
such as updated versions of mast raising and mast lowering checklists.  My
versions of those checklists (started by copying from others) have evolved
a bit with practice at the process.  When first becoming a sailboat owner,
mast raising/lowering can be a bit intimidating.  I'm so glad my boat came
with the GB mast raising system.

Thanks for your work on the website!

Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 9:52 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> No one asked me to do this, but as I’ve kind of implied, I’ve been playing
> around with some HTML (and CSS) to come up with a concept of what a new
> Rhodes 22 Owners’ Group website might look like.
>
> Before I retired, I spent about 25 years working as a computer programmer,
> wearing many different hats during that time, but I was never a website
> developer.  So, this is really an amateur effort at website development.
> But, there might be a benefit to that in that I don’t know any tricks of
> the trade or professional shortcuts.  It is my hope that the work I have
> done could be expanded on and maintained by other non-professionals.
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> Or, it could just serve as the basis of further discussion.
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> I view this mostly as a re-packaging effort, though I’ve created entirely
> new text for the home page.  I’ve also lightly edited the page with the
> email list charter, without, I hope, changing the spirit of the contents at
> all.
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> What used to be called the FAQ’s (which weren’t questions at all), I’ve
> renamed ‘Reference Pages’.  I think this information is valuable, and will
> take some work to convert to a new format.
>
> For anyone who wants to dig beneath the covers, you should be able to get
> to the HTML by doing something like ’Save Page As…’ .  On the home page,
> the menu includes an item named ’Style Sheet’, which will display the base
> CSS code for the website. This is temporary, obviously.
>
> The lovely image on the home page came from Stan.  He posted it on January
> 12 of this year. He said he thought it should win a contest and I agree.
> I’ve cropped and resized it some.  The original (from Stan’s post) is
> here:
> http://rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20200112/2bc71507/attachment.tiff
> <
> http://rhodes22.org/pipermail/rhodes22-list/attachments/20200112/2bc71507/attachment.tiff
> >
>
> Oh, I’ve almost forgotten…  I’ve uploaded my work to my personal domain,
> and you can take a look at it here: http://sunnybeeches.com/rhodes22/ <
> http://sunnybeeches.com/rhodes22/>
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Peter Nyberg
> Coventry, CT
> s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)
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