REMF: Website help needed.Any CHARITY minded web experts out there?

[Brighton Breezy]

And by there, of course, I mean NSC.

As the sort of press officer for the REMF I have been looking at revamping the REMF's website.

Was hoping there might be someone on here who would be able to help with the techno side of it?

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

I'm no expert, I just like tinkering on websites for a bit of a hobby.

If nobody else puts there hand up I'm sure i could help with advice to spruce it up to look a bit more updated than it is now.

I can PM you a link to a website I created to show what kind of design you can do if required.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

And by there, of course, I mean NSC.

As the sort of press officer for the REMF I have been looking at revamping the REMF's website.

Was hoping there might be someone on here who would be able to help with the techno side of it?

Link please.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Found the link... that will take a fair bit of revamping, like complete clean sheet and start again. I am very busy currently, up at 6.15am not home til gone 7pm... I'd be interested in helping out in some capacity, maybe building templates for someone else to populate, which I would assume would be a back end SQL database for you to be able to make your own inputs. How desperate are you to get this done?

 

[Bozza]

Link please.

Robert Eaton Memorial Fund homepage

I'd be happy to donate web hosting space, incl. unlimited bandwidth and diskspace (as, in reality, REMF will not need much) for free if it helps.

 

[Bozza]

Found the link... that will take a fair bit of revamping, like complete clean sheet and start again. I am very busy currently, up at 6.15am not home til gone 7pm... I'd be interested in helping out in some capacity, maybe building templates for someone else to populate, which I would assume would be a back end SQL database for you to be able to make your own inputs. How desperate are you to get this done?

It may be worth using an off-the-shelf CMS, such as Wordpress, for this to take advantage of the numerous templates, plugins and other modifications that already exist.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Found the link... that will take a fair bit of revamping, like complete clean sheet and start again. I am very busy currently, up at 6.15am not home til gone 7pm... I'd be interested in helping out in some capacity, maybe building templates for someone else to populate, which I would assume would be a back end SQL database for you to be able to make your own inputs. How desperate are you to get this done?

Use a pre-constructed template perhaps and then just rejig it to suit the REMF's needs?

Wouldn't take that long that way and they are generally easy to update when required.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Actually what Bozza said about a CMS and in particular Wordpress is a good idea as it is built for the beginner and is open source and therefore free. May be worth looking at? If however you want to go down the road of developing your own template, then as I said I will see what time I have and happily help.

 

[Woodchip]

It may be worth using an off-the-shelf CMS, such as Wordpress, for this to take advantage of the numerous templates, plugins and other modifications that already exist.

I was thinking Drupal would be ideal.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Thanks for the advice offers of help etc.

Basically, I am basically a complete novice HTML and web design. At work I do a lot on the web, but have an easy upload system built round Atex.

I was thinking a complete re-launch of the website, but all it would need is a front page and an easily updatable news section, a history of the REMF page and possibly a gallery.

I guess wordpress would probably be easiest (from what little I know of it) and we have the domain name which I assume we could still use.

Once it is set up, I will do all the updating etc, just need some guidance on getting it off the ground.

 

[gripper stebson]

PM sent.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Why not run a small competition and people can put in their designs and let NSC decide!?