Speaking of the website ...

[Gordonious]

I keep meaning to mention that I really like Chris's idea(cmondo). "What do you guys think about having a sticky thread at the top of the forum for everyone to post pictures of their tank in? Or possibly on the website?"

I have always thought it would be cool to see some photos of people tanks and to hear a bit about them. I know not everyone in here has a digital camera, but perhaps some of us who do have them could bring them along on a tank tour! (Won't that look great, having half the reef club in your house taking pictures looking like a group of gawking foreign tourist at an aquarium, lol.)

I realize though that making these pages with info and pics would add a great deal of work to the site. I would love to take on working on that part of the website. I am normally pretty busy, but I am taking some much needed vacation time in Jan. What are you using to edit the site? I thought I heard someone say they used notepad in the meeting, but I wasn’t sure if that was you. Notepad, paint, and a good photo editor just to crop and size my photos is all I ever used.

Jon

 

[Gordonious]

I had never paid attention to the Macna best club site icon before on the old site. That's pretty cool. The graphic looks a bit old though. I know Macna made that, but if you could use it I would recreate it with cleaner/less fuzzy graphics. Just let me know.

Jon

PS. Wow if you guys thought I talked too much during the school year I bet your sick of me already now that it is winter break. (No one said that, I just noticed that my name was listed as "Last Post" pretty often and I know when I type things they are usually lengthy. I think I get it from my father.)

 

[ronert]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8789484#post8789484 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
I keep meaning to mention that I really like Chris's idea(cmondo). "What do you guys think about having a sticky thread at the top of the forum for everyone to post pictures of their tank in? Or possibly on the website?"

The pic idea is good. I've been thinking on that, as well. The problem: the current site has very little storage capability. If we moved to a different provider, that could change. I don't know what we currently pay (if at all) for the site hosting, but I do know that for around $65-70 per year, we could get a WHOLE lot more. Moving the site is an issue that needs to be discussed at a meeting, though.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8789484#post8789484 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
What are you using to edit the site? I thought I heard someone say they used notepad in the meeting, but I wasn’t sure if that was you. Notepad, paint, and a good photo editor just to crop and size my photos is all I ever used.

Depends what platform I'm on at the time. I switch between a handful of OS's a lot during the course of a day. Most of what I do @ home is either OSX or Win. On Win - HTMLKit and Photoshop and on OSX - Smultron and Photoshop. The notepad comment was me. Both HTMLKit and Smultron are basic editors (like notepad) with a few nice features (contextual highlighting being the most useful for me).

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8789484#post8789484 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
I had never paid attention to the Macna best club site icon before on the old site. That's pretty cool. The graphic looks a bit old though. I know Macna made that, but if you could use it I would recreate it with cleaner/less fuzzy graphics. Just let me know.

I think the real question is DO WE NEED IT? It's old. And, it looks old. I changed the background to transparent, so it's a bit more useful; but, do we need to advertise we won 3rd place a couple of years ago?

BTW, I liked your scrolling text idea, Dave. thx

- ted

 

[ronert]

and you thought your posts were long ....

 

[Gordonious]

Lol, have you been working on this the whole time or did you just wake up at 6:30am to start working on this again?

 

[ronert]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8790846#post8790846 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
Lol, have you been working on this the whole time or did you just wake up at 6:30am to start working on this again?

i like my sleep ... the changes i made in response to seadoo's comments only took about 5 minutes ... CSS makes style issues a piece of cake

the last changes i made were the night previous to that long winded reply of mine ... so pick away, Jon (et. al.)

- t

 

[wds21921]

5 dead links in the Sponsors section:

On-Line Dry Goods- Reef Supply, Marine Enterprises International

On-Line Livestock - Blane Perun's Farms At The Sea, Dr. Mac & Sons, West Coast Tropical

 

[kaptken]

Ted, I will start sending out sponsor requests this coming month. and should start getting some feedback trickling in after that. I will keep you updated.

 

[ronert]

The sponsors page is a copy of what we currently have in a different style. Ken, maybe we can work on what/who our current sponsors are.