MTRC.org website and maintenance

[Mnemic]

IMO, more forums is overkill, when the RC site is pretty good and sufficient as a forum system. That, and customizing PHPBB to look like... well anything but a Stock PHPBB system isn't terribly easy. *IF* we did want to overhaul MTRC's site, I'd recommend a CMS package like Xoops, or Joomla. PHPBB just gives you forums. a CMS gives you Forums, Homepages, Wikis and just a ton of other features tied into one package, all modular.

And the benefit of NOT using phpbb, is well less likely to get hacked or exploited by some random bug in the most popular forum software (had it happen before, was not happy).

I would rather keep forums on RC, since it works for 95% of our members, and maybe do a CMS system for user Tank Pages, a Wiki, and photo gallery. Existing reefers that move to the area can just look at our post #s and know we are a very responsive group. most clubs don't have 5k posts, let alone 40k+ like we do.

Bandwidth is cheap now. one of my webhosts is something crazy like 1TB xfer/month and 1TB of storage, and it cost me 5 bucks/mo when I prepaid for 3 years.

I'm pretty good with PHP as a hobby, but not much in the Design aspect. I can do HTML, but suck at CSS. I'm familiar with SQL/MySQL as well.

I'm all about Ease of Use and minimal maintenance. Create tools that let the users do the work (Wiki) and just make a nice Theme for whatever you are using on the backend.

 

[andywe]

Mnemic.

Exactly. Communityserver is about the best CMS out there and is free for us. Now that is jsut one example, and I mentioned it for anyone to look. We use joomla at work and it isn't so hot, as well as I own sevral technoligies as well.

My overall point is we can supplement what we have in RC with a much richer set of features and use.

When we can tie things together and present it in a rich way, organized, and useful, this is a win.

 

[NeveSSL]

I didn't mean to meet about this stuff... I just meant in general.

This stuff will be up to the board ultimately.

Brandon

 

[andywe]

No worries Brandon. We are all a part of this club and can participate in many ways. I merely offer up my services, abilities, and technologies for use.

 

[NeveSSL]

Very cool, man.

I'm jealous of your 25/10 line.

Do you pay per Gb or GB or do you just have a straight price?

Brandon

 

[andywe]

Flat fee.

 

[NeveSSL]

Nice.

I remember dreaming of T1's back in high school... until we found out they were $75 a month plus so much per Gb... :lol:

We went with satellite instead, but it had a phoneline for up... we couldn't afford the fully symmetrical dish... heh.

This was for a LAN room in my friend's basement...

Brandon