York RC Club website.

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As some of you may have noticed, the website for the club is in dire need of being made useful.

I can make this happen. I've designed and created one or 2 websites in my time, no i cant link to them, if you catch my drift.

I see no reason why the system used for results, which i've seen and is an access database, heavily modified, cannot produce an output which could be turned into a database entry on a website. People at the venue, should they be remotely technically minded and have a smart phone, could then access the website and view times etc away from the rather crowded area behind race control. It would also mean that all meetings times etc would be saved and could be used by utter noobs like me to plot progress, be it forwards or backwards, and also used by the more experienced to see what different car setups have done over the course of a nights racing.

This really isnt a difficult task, only a few days part time coding and would be very useful...

Should the peeps in charge of the club wish to speak to me about this, please, come find me, I'll be pitting next to Mossy and will be wearing a weirdfish tshirt, driving a B4, or a Madrat, havent decided which yet...

Also, before this question is asked, no, i wouldnt want cash for this, i'm happy to do my bit for the club. But if you fancy turning those bloody heaters off in the main hall, i'd be greatly appreciative.... :P

Anways, gimme a shout if you'd like this done.

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[Col]

No grip without the heaters.

As for the site, there as mention of this at the AGM, but I wasn't really listening. Someone was going to do something, but I can't remember who it was or what they were going to do.

As far as I'm concerned every bit of help is welcome.

[mpg200]

I believe there was a problem with the thermostat on saturday, yes it was a little warm.

[Robin A]

The guy who paints the body shells and races the sweet 1991 Yokomo YZ-10 currently works on the website, he said at the AGM he had half done a revamp on the website.

Gerry also volenteered his services in this area.

It would be superb to have access to the race results, then I can spend the next week staring in tearful silent disbelief at how badly I drove.

[farmboy]

It was indeed me who suggested taking this on at the AGM. My idea was to go to a Wordpress based site, as I've set-up / run a few using WP:

www.mediamill.co.uk
www.yorkparents.co.uk
www.auditiontraining.co.uk

Nothing that exciting but the idea is to make the YORCC site clearer and easier to update on a regular basis. Wordpress doesn't offer the ultimate 'shinyness' of a tailor-made site but WP sites can still look very good and it's easy to add extra features like embedded video and a picture gallery at zero cost.

I'm happy to do this or hand over to someone else

Having talked to Simon Major, who runs the current site, and Mike Cockerill it was decided that there should be some kind of get-together to talk about what's needed. It's also something to be discussed on here.


Jerry

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Originally Posted by farmboy

It was indeed me who suggested taking this on at the AGM. My idea was to go to a Wordpress based site, as I've set-up / run a few using WP:

www.mediamill.co.uk
www.yorkparents.co.uk
www.auditiontraining.co.uk

Nothing that exciting but the idea is to make the YORCC site clearer and easier to update on a regular basis. Wordpress doesn't offer the ultimate 'shinyness' of a tailor-made site but WP sites can still look very good and it's easy to add extra features like embedded video and a picture gallery at zero cost.

I'm happy to do this or hand over to someone else

Having talked to Simon Major, who runs the current site, and Mike Cockerill it was decided that there should be some kind of get-together to talk about what's needed. It's also something to be discussed on here.


Jerry

The overall look of the site is neither here nor there for me, as a very general rule, i couldnt care less how bad things look, i have a fiancee who sorts that out, i only really care how things work. Right now the website doesnt, put very bluntly and IMO that needs rectifying. Admittedly most of the reason why i think it should be done, is that i won my final in my first race and didnt get any internets kudos for my troubles. Yes it was the B Final for 540, so not a huge achievement for many of you, but it was my first race and i wanted it to be immortalised on a website and i wanted hosannahs sang in my name, and a Mount Dubzmore... you get my drift i'm sure. But then after i stopped being a self obsessed douchbag, i thought, what about everyone else in my shoes, how do they keep a record of their average laps, see what the changes they have made do to affect their average lap, and generally have that little bit of pride that comes from winning, or doing well at something? Right now they dont, and i can change that.

Wordpress is a great way to publish your blog. For what i'm thinking is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, and the guy i'm bringing with me this weekend is a godamn genius when it comes to coding. I know it can be done, he'll just tell me which way is the best to do it. Once we get our teeth into it, it'll happen very quickly.

I'm not trying to disregard your ideas bud, but this type of situation SCREAMS database backend, and thats just something that WP cannot give you, its not difficult to do, but its quite difficult to do well.

If you want to carry on and sort it, then be my guest, i'll code up a site for myself for the results etc, i just think it would be nice for everyone to have access to what i'm going to have, it'll be a massive help to everyone.

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