Sorry, everyone, for not updating you sooner. President Spragg, web designer Mike Brodeur, and I met last week to discuss the website. It's looking great. Mike has a few more features he wants to design into the site (mostly related to uploading/storing images), and President Spragg has some more content he wants to publish before we go live with the site. We're estimating a couple of weeks for that to happen.

On the admin side, there are still a few things Mike needs to incorporate before he can let me (and others) have a look behind the curtain as far as how to maintain and update the site contents. The whole idea is, make it easy for ANYONE to manage the site in case the proverbial beer truck hits us. I'll be critiquing this part HARD because we need to make sure that the site won't crash just because someone clicks the wrong button, etc.

The test site is currently hosted on Mike's Windows Server. Mike has developed his own content management system (like Wordpress) and has generously offered to host it for free for the first year, saving the club hundreds of dollars.

President Spragg and Mike will also be evaluating the forum software on the demo site I set up that many of you have already looked at. You can see check it out at https://chipcollectors.org. If Mike can successfully install the SMF software on his server and we can migrate the existing data, no one will have to recreate their accounts.

We did not go over any of the other tech items on my to do list as the website/message board is the first and main thing to get done.

Anyhoo, that's the progress report for now. Have a great week, everyone. I’ll be in touch in a couple of weeks unless something else important comes up to be reported on.