[UK-CONTEST] RSGB Websites (changed subject line)

[Dave Sergeant]

On 26 Jun 2009 at 9:43, Callum m0mcx wrote:

> Can I ask a serious question though. Honestly - why do we have all these
> daft websites and various domain names kicking about when RSGB.org.uk
> seems pretty good to me..? The ARRL somehow manage to do this with a
> much larger problem that we have. There must be enough technical
> know-how knocking around the RSGB to get a decent Content Management
> System running with relevant log-ins and security for the relevant
> parties so that each flag-waver can have their own sub-site?

Well I remember that that was ground to death a few months ago....

For whatever reason the individual committee websites are run away from 
the main RSGB site. Most of these are in fact very professional sites 
and serve their purpose very well. The only connection with rsgb.org.uk 
is that they are linked from it.

There is a slight issue in that the domain name servers for 
rsgbhfcc.org are not set up to point correctly to the vhfcc.org/hfcc 
subdirectory where it is hosted - this COULD be corrected by the owner 
of rsgbhfcc.org but there may of course be reasons why this has not 
been done. Other than that, I have no complaints.

The RSGB site of course is run by HQ. As a site I have some 
reservations and feel it could be better, but that is an HQ issue. I 
have personally never been that impressed by Content Management systems 
- they are probably the thing for very active sites like newspapers and 
the like, but not for our sorts of sites where the updates are 
relatively rare. And a content management system  would restrict the 
appearance of the sub site as to how the main site owner wanted it to 
look - I am not convinced this is good, the committee sites can and 
should take on an appearance totally under control of the appropriate 
webmaster.

So PLEASE leave it as it is...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com