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(Do you agree? Please send us some mail with your likes and dislikes. THANKS!)
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Capt. Dave Uebele, Chair Data Management & Website
Towline Nov 2002
Towline July 2003
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Web Site Information
The mission of the Bremerton Yacht Club Web Site is to provide information about the Club and general boating information to both club members and the public. Content of the site is published by the BYC web team, a part of the Technology committee. Information for the site is requested from club committees and club members. Members' names will not normally be shown unless they belong to club officers. If other full names are displayed, it will be only with permission. Comments on how to improve the site and suggestions for additional information are (more than) welcome. Members interested in helping with the web should contact the BYC WebTeam (this address [bycwebteam@bremertonyachtclub.org] reaches both, Dave Uebele and Günter Krumme) If you have submissions, send them in whatever format you can. Style and standards are still being determined. We can deal with a variety of data formats and adapt them to the web page. Note that these pages are being developed and test-viewed with Netscape and/or Internet Explorer. If you have problems viewing our pages with a different web browser, contact the web team, we want this information to be usable regardless of web browser. We would like the page to be pleasant to read and use by most newer browsers and also still be usable by a vision impaired user on a text based browser like Lynx. BYCwebteam@bremertonyachtclub.org
Towline Reports:
Speak up about a members only web page! So far no members have provided feedback. If there is no input, there will be no "members only" web page. Do you have an opinion about how our club can use electronic information technologies? The BYC WebTeam is looking for members to participate in a feasibility and planning study for "Members Only" Web pages which would complement (not replace) the present web pages which are and will remain open to the public. This is your chance to speak up on how you would like to see such "intra-club" pages develop. There are a lot of options and issues to consider as to how best to serve our club and allow for better access to club information via the internet. There are no off-the-shelf designs for something like this. It needs to be planned with input from as many members as possible so that it may best serve the club and help it move forward. At its meeting of 10 May, the Executive Committee has approved this feasibility & planning effort. If you have any interest in this topic and want to earn points for your participation, please contact the BYC WebTeam, either by email at bycwebteam@bremertonyachtclub.org or sending mail to Dave Uebele, 13118 Olalla Valley Rd SE, Olalla, WA 98359 (253) 857-0553. (daveu@sptddog.com) I prefer information in writing, rather than risk forgetting something brought up in casual conversation. I anticipate that much of the discussion for this study will be done via email, with face to face meetings only as needed. No knowledge of HTML required. We need conceptual input too.
Captain Dave Uebele
The WebTeam is looking forward to contribute to the 75th Anniversary Commemorations of BYC. Over the past few weeks, we have helped our Historian make the portraits of our P.C.s more accessible by posting the 75 handsome heads on our Web page ( bremertonyachtclub.org/history/pcphotos/1930s.html). You should have seen our historians P/C Bob & Jytte, our electronic expert Sylvia and yours truly take down and open the frames, scan the old photos and reposition the 75 reassembled pictures on the wall! Earlier, the Historian had scanned in the (long!) written narrative, and we Web people then organized and posted on the Web some of this written record of BYC history from 1929 to about 1970 (bremertonyachtclub.org/bycHistory.html). More can and should be done, and we hope that those of you who are already busy recording BYC history will share the fruit of your work with us (the WebTeam). We would like to encourage especially our long-term members to dig into their memories, old calendars, photo boxes and albums and share with the BYC community some of this formal or informal record: an old photo or document, a newspaper clipping, a short narrative or vignette, documentation of an award, an anecdote, some reminiscence of a particular episode, and, yes, some of the yarn and hearsay which - without historical proof or truth - may nevertheless tell a lot about the Club and its members and may produce some chuckles for the rest of us. We are quite sure that the flexibility of the Web site will allow us to find an appropriate place for almost anything having to do with BYC and its past. Try us… Please note that any fragile or valuable item which can be photographed or scanned electronically can be returned essentially on the spot (if desired, we even come to your house!). Also, please share your ideas and insights with us as to how we might arrange and present BYC's history in an electronic format, including telling us whether you might like to see the resulting pages and images transferred to CD or DVD for your own library or for slide shows in the Clubhouse. Please help us, stay tuned and thanks!
Your BYC WebTeam
JULY 2003: As you may have noticed, the Webteam has increased its capacity to provide almost instant information about BYC events and other urgent matters, i.e. we can update our BYC WebPage on a (more or less) daily, sometimes on an hourly basis. That should mean that the BYC Page could become more useful as an (almost) real-time communication tool for scheduling committee meetings and events, changing meeting schedules, providing minutes of meetings for absent members or posting other time-sensitive information. You may want to discuss this with your committee, identify those members who may still have to be notified through other means, and decide to give it a try. Who knows, you may like it... Contact the WebTeam (bycwebteam@bremertonyachtclub.org), discuss your needs and maybe make arrangements as to where within the BYC WebSystem your committee information could be located or how it should be linked. Looking forward hearing from you! (Your WebTeam) |
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Most visits to the Web site start with the BYC Home page which contains some but does not have enough space for very much directly informative "content". Some real content (e.g. the Commodore's latest report) is just one click away. Most items on the Home page, however, are links to "subdirectories" designed to organize most of the ultimate content (which therefore is at least two "clicks" away).
BYC's subdirectories are organized by:
1. Topic. Our sailing page
(bremertonyachtclub.org/bycSailBoat.html ) or
history page (bremertonyachtclub.org/bycHistory.html) are good
examples. Most of the items in the very left column of the homepage guide
you to topical subdirectories.
2. Chronological date. Our various calendars are obvious examples
for
chronological subdirectories
(e.g. bremertonyachtclub.org/bycCalIndex.html). Our monthly bridge and
committee reports as well as the Newsletter are also chronologically
organized.
3. The alphabet. In our comprehensive
"Index" (bremertonyachtclub.org/indexpage.html) you will find almost any
BYC topic or important name, from "P/C Adams" (1933) to the
"Oktoberfest" and the "Youth Sailing Program." However, on this page,
you also find our own Google search engine which may get you still quicker
to what you are looking for. Yes, that's right, we have a very
comprehensive and fast search mode calibrated just for our BYC Web
site! Try it, you will like it!
These subdirectories lead largely to BYC's own pages. In addition, there is a fairly comprehensive "external" directory with links to many marine-related organizations or topics outside BYC. (bremertonyachtclub.org/bycLinks.html).
More in a future Towline. Happy
Navigation!
Your WebTeam.
Kudos to BYC's Web Photographers | |||||
Photo: Sylvia Wilson (14 Feb 04) |
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