[Rhodes22-list] A New Website?

Fri Jul 17 11:25:31 EDT 2020

Great strides! 
Thank you for the progress. 
Question:
Is there  way to add a ‘Member” tab and include separate links to members and their boats, projects, photos, etc?
Ric 
Dadventure 
HBNY

Richard Stott, AIA, LEED AP 
www.stottarchitecture.com
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> On Jul 17, 2020, at 10:57 AM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> 
> Nabble is an independent outfit I don't believe we have any control over it.
> 
> Peter, this looks good. I haven't looked all the way through but hope the FAQ (which was archival material rescued from an earlier website) is fully represented.
> 
> BTW I think the current webpage was renovated by a teenager some 15 years ago. I don't really remember all the details and of course haven't been paying close attention here as we no longer have the boat.
> 
> Glad to see the initiative though.
> 
> Mary Lou
> 
> On 7/17/2020 10:08 AM, Tom Van Heule wrote:
>> Jesse - I also understand that nabble data is only partial - something that
>> there was nothing previous to 2009 in Nabble... but the entirety is where
>> Peter indicated.  I would like to see someone who knows be able to update
>> nabble to get ALL the data (or find another way to modernize the UI of all
>> the archives). Also Nabble, and for that matter our current site have no
>> SSL certification.  https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/  this is free
>> and legit - but someone with access needs to go through.
>> 
>> Peter - this looks great, nothing fancy needed, but more complete. Thank
>> you.  And thank you for not using wordpress (it's a peeve of mine)
>> 
>> aside- we KNOW there are photos that get lost in the archives - perhaps
>> there is a content discovery tool we can run against the archives - really
>> most posts with a photo attached are worth indexing?
>> 
>> Happy Friday all -
>> Tom
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:06 AM Jesse Shumaker <
>> jesse.laten.shumaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Or, it could just serve as the basis of further discussion.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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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