Tomoko Schum
New member
Hi y'all,
We are going to launch our new website in a short while. It's going to be a simple website where we can announce our future meeting schedule and list some member info. I am hoping to add a page for links and another for an online member registration.
Cameron (CorallineDream) recently offered to build the website and host it on his server for us so that we don't have to pay for the hosting fees. He found out that "northalabamareefclub.com" is available. I understand that the annual domain name registration costs about $34.99 for a year. I think it's truly worthwhile to get this going. Cameron is a professional IT guy as you might have gathered, and he will maintain it for us.
Everyone, please thank Cameron for making this a reality!!
Now I am going to get into the real reason for this thread. Yes, I am begging you people to chip in for the domain name registration. If everyone can donate just a few dollars, we can buy one year's worth for sure (the more years we buy, the cheaper it gets.)
In the future we can consider a token club dues which we will discuss in our future club meeting. If we have enough members, we will be able to charge only $ 1 or 2 for a year to join NARC. This should pay for the annual registration fees and for the cost of making the little yellow membership cards which Mariner has been doing for us for free until now (thank you, Mariner.) We can set up a savings account to put money in and periodically inform you on the expenses and what's going on with the account, if you'd like. This should not affect our membership structure at all. We will keep the club informal as always without officers. I just ask once a year for you to pay for the token dues. I will try to convince our sponsors to chip in, but we should not expect it. I consider it lucky if that happens.
I will chip in $5 toward the domain name registration. Anyone else?
Tomoko
We are going to launch our new website in a short while. It's going to be a simple website where we can announce our future meeting schedule and list some member info. I am hoping to add a page for links and another for an online member registration.
Cameron (CorallineDream) recently offered to build the website and host it on his server for us so that we don't have to pay for the hosting fees. He found out that "northalabamareefclub.com" is available. I understand that the annual domain name registration costs about $34.99 for a year. I think it's truly worthwhile to get this going. Cameron is a professional IT guy as you might have gathered, and he will maintain it for us.
Everyone, please thank Cameron for making this a reality!!
Now I am going to get into the real reason for this thread. Yes, I am begging you people to chip in for the domain name registration. If everyone can donate just a few dollars, we can buy one year's worth for sure (the more years we buy, the cheaper it gets.)
In the future we can consider a token club dues which we will discuss in our future club meeting. If we have enough members, we will be able to charge only $ 1 or 2 for a year to join NARC. This should pay for the annual registration fees and for the cost of making the little yellow membership cards which Mariner has been doing for us for free until now (thank you, Mariner.) We can set up a savings account to put money in and periodically inform you on the expenses and what's going on with the account, if you'd like. This should not affect our membership structure at all. We will keep the club informal as always without officers. I just ask once a year for you to pay for the token dues. I will try to convince our sponsors to chip in, but we should not expect it. I consider it lucky if that happens.
I will chip in $5 toward the domain name registration. Anyone else?
Tomoko
