** Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com [2005-10-06 00:55]:
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 19:28 +0100, Dave Briggs wrote:
Shropshire LUG have quite a nice deign, ignoring the flash animation at the top... [ http://shropshire.lug.org.uk/ ]
Didn't see the Flash because I am blessed with a 64bit build of Firefox that can't load a flash plugin...But yes I agree that is quite a nice looking site if we wanted to go the delegated responsibility route rather than a Wiki.
The design looks really familiar, but this page http://shropshire.lug.org.uk/?pc=2005 Says it was custom built...I wonder if they would like to share it (or elements of it assuming we decided to go that route)
** end quote [Wayne Stallwood]
To me the site looks like a promising template with a lot of work to do. Looking down the resources and info/projects sections on the left I get an error on every one except the one on the website. The two new sections on the right are both giving errors too. All but two of the links in the menu at the top right work happily, the events one gives an error and the home link does nothing (except possibly reloading the page). Getting back to the website page the links to the tools used at the bottom of the page bring up annoying pop-up windows with no navigation bars (kiosk mode) and if you try to open them in a new tab/window yourself you get blocked by some javascript. All in all not a site I'd be in a rush to return to - although I'll admit that the page errors could be down to a back end database failure or something and they are waiting for someone to either spot, report or fix it.
Much as I'm not a fan of Wikis I have to admit that the HantsLUG site has flourished having migrated to one. Before switching it was pretty much a dead site frequently in need of updating. Anyway, each to their own, and there's nothing to say that the Wiki concept works for every group of people (much like I dislike forums, and prefer mailing lists, but others are the reverse of that).
As a quick aside it looks as though the Dorset LUG are heading Wiki wise too. It'll be interesting to see how their site develops.