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Andy Hine MBE · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: CLUB WEBSITE

Due to health reasons, the current Club webmaster (Norm) is currently not able to look after the website as he would like. As such I am looking for a member to takeover the task. You will need to understand websites and how to update them, change them, etc., etc. (and have some free time to do it.)

If you are interested please send me a PM or e-mail (andy@rccgb.co.uk)

Thanks
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Coaster Police · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

I have recently been appointed by Nev to get the website up to date, and it won't be long now until you see some updates Laughing

On top of that, there is also a 'new' site under development as I type with a fresh new look and feel, bringing us up to date and in line with modern web site development techniques!

So watch this space !
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nemesis scribe · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

Thats great news Very Happy

Does this mean the name of the club will change to the RCCU??? (Roller Coaster Club of Ukraine) Very Happy

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stevencaine · Junior Hyper Poster Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 133

Thanks Norm for all his hard work on the club website and hope you are ok Wink

Welcome and thanks Matt
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Coaster Police · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject:

Nimmykins · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks indeed to Norm for his hard work.

And best of luck to The Police.
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BAGuru · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks Norm for all your hard work in the past. It has been appreciated.

Looking forward to the relaunch as and when it comes in. Good luck Guys.

Laughing

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c anderson · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject:

Good luck with the website, it will be a lot of work but know you will do an excellent job of it. Hope Norman is ok soon.
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Coaster Police · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:26 am Post subject:

Hi All,

Quick update for you......

Things are progressing along well with the new site. I will be posting an update on the homepage of the current site this evening so the site is up-to-date with developments.

As the new site progresses, I will looking for a few willing volunteer's to help me check it for typo's, bad links etc. Hopefully there won't be many issues, but when you are staring at the same thing for hours, you become blind to it Shocked

I'll post more on this nearer the time.

And that's about it for now, just letting you know what's going on really.

A few quick thank you's as well to: Norman Mercer, Andy Huckle and Andy Sheppard for your help so far with providing me with information/images etc. that i need Mr. Green

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Coaster Police · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

Hi all!

Another Update for you.......

We're on Track ! (No, not a track walk!!)

All being well, the new RCCGB website will be live with you all next week!

Our target live-date is "Just after Loopathon 2008", so i'm working towards Tuesday 07 October. All is well, and the new look site is nearing completion. There are still a few small bits to finish, but it's over 95% there now.

Testing is now underway (Thanks Bunnie) as my typing can be flakey sometimes when staring at the screen for ages. Your typo patrol, link checking, and other reviewing is invaluable.

There may be a short period of downtime during the migration to the new site, but i'll change the main homepage during this time. I don't expect it to take too long. And just incase, i'll be backing up the old site incase of any unforseen issues!

Anyway, look at the time!!! I have to sleep, do some work, finish the site tomorrow and then get to Loopathon!

Look forward to seeing you all over the weekend!
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stevencaine · Junior Hyper Poster Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 133

great too hear the new website is coming along nicely cant wait for launch day
Should be good Cool

Bunnie · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject:

Coaster Police · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

Hi all...

Another update... at 02:00 on Friday morning whilst copying the new site to the laptop to take to loopathon, I have found a reasonably major problem with a component of the new site.

There is a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5 & 6 that prevents some of the code from working propely - this means the menu's won't work, and some blocks of the page are displayed in the wrong place.

Clearly not an ideal situation and i'm very annoyed.

Therefore, i'm working very hard to re-do some of the code and update the site accordingly in order to support IE6. It's a pain as IE7 is out, and IE8 is in beta already - because of this, Microsoft won't release a fix for the bug. However, as approx 50% of you probably still use IE6, i feel abliged to re-code it.

I'm not sure of the delay to the new launch (not more than a day or two), but i'll try and keep it to a minimum and get the site live ASAP.

I'll keep updates posted to here.

Thanks,
Matt.
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bradpeet · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

I can sure understand why you are annoyed Matt.

I hope I can speak for everybody when I say I appreciate all the hard work you are putting into this - and that I would rather wait a little longer for a quality site, than to have a new site which does not work properly.
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Happy Helen · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject:

That is the best way to wait a little longer for a better website rather than have a website that does not work.

I do appreciate the hard work that you have done.

Can't wait to see it.

Helen.

Website: www.flickr.com/happyhelen/sets

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frosty · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks Matt for all the effort put into the new web site.

Likewise we found that IE6 had issues with menu's on web pages but as we still have some older Win 2K PC's we had to install firefox as IE7 is XP only - as you would expect.
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