New website
Today I had lunch with Faith from the ADA and we talked about getting a site put together to help with recruiting for this year’s NEC (both the 150 and 550 and also the RI 150).
Not only did she like the idea, but she’s very enthusiastic. Woot! So stay tuned, a new site is on the way:
http://www.NewEnglandClassic.org/
or
http://www.CycleNorthEast.org/
Actually, they’re both the same thing. All I really need is a simple, basic design that can grow. My current plan is to put phpBB, Coppermine, and maybe WordPress (although I’m not sure of the need for that). There needs to be a place for people to go to to find info about the ride. The Convio site is good for soliciting and keeping track of fundraising, but it has precious little basic information about the ride. The other sections will be fundraising tips, training tips, ride information (route, &c.), things like that.
What else should be there? If you were considering a multi-day pledge ride, what information would you want to know and expect to find?
I’m hoping to have it running by Thanksgiving to first of December time frame.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:55 am
I’ll see your woot and raise you a w00t!
Very nice. I’m sure I’ll have all sorts of nit-picky things to say about it as it develops.
ha ha
Speaking of… You know what’s missing from this site that you used to do when you were with the cowpeople? Your movie/Netflix reviews. C’mon, I smell a ninth category here!
November 9th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
I hope you do pick nits. It’s going to have quite a bit of traffic, so it has to be right. One of the things I’m struggleing with is how to arrange the “information” pages. There needs to be things like “hotels near the starting line for the night before” and just, you know, *stuff*.
I have an OT topic that I haven’t used. Maybe I’ll expand the site beyond just cycling. Then again, I could watch something while on the trainer and it would all relate again!
I didn’t realize WP had an emoticon substitution thingy. Maybe I’ll start with the Ramones: End of the Century I watched last weekend.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Oh, right… this site has a “theme”.
Forgot about that, which–in my defense–is pretty easy to do, as it’s not like you have it under a “cycling” subdomain or anything.
I did something rather similar for the working waterfront site. You’ll be able to just forget having a specific “Information” section, as that’s pretty much what the whole thing is going to be anyways. In addition to a Lodging section, you could have a pre-race checklist of what to bring, google map to: link to the starting line for people to enter a from:…
I thought that Ramones film was very good. The Joey parts made me sad… (although not as sad as the friggin’ “Dee Dee King” video). Yeow.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
I’ve also thought about using a CMS for this. I haven’t found one I like though except, of course, for the one I wrote. But that requires ColdFusion and that means it would have to be here on my home machine, and I don’t want to do that. MediaWiki makes a nice CMS, but it’s really overkill, I think. You’re locked into their look and feel, too, unless you want to put more time and effort into it than I have available.
I don’t have problems creating it, I just have trouble figuring out how to index into it. You know, getting it into a menu.
November 9th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Is it really going to be that big and collaborative to work? Sounds like teh overkill.
November 9th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
No, not that big at all. And I’m hoping it won’t be very collaborative (other than Coppermine and phpBB). I was just looking for the quickest and easiest way to do it.