[FGCMH Core] FreeGeek Columbus website overhaul

[Sean Whalen]

Is phpbb any better behaved? I know it would not replace drupal, but  
it would be great to have anyway....
On May 27, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Chris Beck wrote:

> Mothership tried converting to wordpress,  and beat a hasty retreat,
> IIRC.  it's great and wonderful, but it also is hard on cpu and  
> memory.
> with our current hosting solution, that would be an issue for us, as  
> it
> was for them.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 17:42 -0400, Sean Whalen wrote:
>> I really like that template! Drupal can be a pain to administer and
>> upgrade at times. Maybe look at wordpress as a way to enable visitor
>> feedback. There are also a ton or REALLY cool plugins :)
>>
>> http://wordpress.org
>>
>> A forum as a replacement of this mailing list would be much more easy
>> to view and manage. Maybe look at
>>
>> http://phpbb.com
>>
>> Sometimes my inbox is flooded with mailing list emails, and I have a
>> hard time tracking conversations.
>>
>> On May 27, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Tim Dunning wrote:
>>
>>> Clean and simple - looks good.  Would it be helpful to have a link
>>> to the
>>> Location page on the Home page?
>>>
>>> -Tim Dunning
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:29, JohnCCS Cramer wrote:
>>>> I like it.
>>>>
>>>> Additions other suggested would be good.
>>>>
>>>> --John Cramer
>>>>
>>>> Copyright (C) 2009 by John Wm Cramer
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>>>>> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:01:31 -0400
>>>>> From: skippy at skippy.net
>>>>> To: fgcmh at freegeekcolumbus.org
>>>>> Subject: [FGCMH Core] FreeGeek Columbus website overhaul
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to make our website slightly more usable. It should  
>>>>> tell a
>>>>> little more about who we are, and what we do. I've worked up a
>>>>> prototype of what I have in mind:
>>>>>  http://skippy.net/fg/
>>>>> This is a work-in-progress, and there's a lot of little tweaking
>>>>> I'd like
>>>>> to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to get feedback from the community on whether they feel
>>>>> this
>>>>> is an improvement. If so, I'd like to get it put online soon, so
>>>>> that
>>>>> we can start posting more details about upcoming events (like  
>>>>> Miles'
>>>>> Grant Development Day, and our upcoming open house).
>>>>>
>>>>> If you'd like to lend a hand, please let me know! Ideally, I'd
>>>>> like to
>>>>> have a group of people regularly submitting stories for posting to
>>>>> the
>>>>> front page. We can also use pictures and video of our warehouse  
>>>>> and
>>>>> our volunteers. Testimonials from volunteers, donors, and grant
>>>>> recipients will also be very helpful for the yet-to-be-made press
>>>>> kit!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
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