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January 08, 2005
New Years Resolutions
The advent of the New Year is traditionally a time for taking stock , reflecting on things past and stiffening resolve for completing plans.
The MACLA site is in need of an overhaul. Its grown way beyond its original concept. Over the past 6 months , I've made some changes (upgrading the web host, removed almost all of the advertising based scripts, improved navigation and user interaction, started to reorganise the many photos on the site, started this blog), but there is much to tackle in the new year.
For 2005, in no particular order, I plan to:
- Make the MACLA site standards compliant. I'm currently working my way through a couple of books that have inspired me to master cascading style sheets. Once I've achieved this then I can work on the code that drives the MACLA Site.
- Redesign the MACLA front page to better reflect how the site is used and to shed some light on the darker recesses of the site.
- Replace or retire the MACLA Forum. Last year, I migrated away from a heavily ad infested forum to a minimalist based one that was easy to maintain. Unfortunately, its proved unpopular with only one post in 3 months. Time for a rethink.
- Migrate the old newsletters to the new format. Bit of a no-brainer so long as I remember to keep the links updated.
- Seek new ways to get the community more involved. Not sure how to go about this. Ownership is an issue but the biggest hurdle is people's perceptions. Am considering giving presentations to activity groups such as the WI & Over 60's.
- Complete, in a reasonable time frame, new & existing projects. Outstanding at the moment are a photo-essay on Nocton farms in the 1950s and the expansion of the census database.
- Revisit the events diary. Its one of the most popular pages on the site, yet almost nobody adds their own events and some months it looks very sparse.
So, enough talking about New Year's resolutions, lets try and make some progress with them...
Posted by weaver at January 8, 2005 11:58 AM
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