Greetings Scouts and those interested in Scouting. My name is Phillip Williamson II, and I am the webmaster. As you may have noticed we have had a design change. Hopefully for the better, and all criticisms of the new design shall be listened to, although be warned, I may not actually do what you say or ask.
The Reason for the new design was Two-fold. One: updating the old site was a pain. Really. I had to open up one program, make the changes, then open up another program to publish the changes, then I had to troubleshoot any and all glitches that I made while updating. The process was long and hard, and college would not allow me the time needed to properly do it. The new design-powered by Wordpress- is simple for me to update, from anywhere in the world, and it accomplishes another goal I had.
Two: I wanted to be able to allow others within the district to update the site themselves. I have sent Usernames and Passwords to the District Executive, Commissioner, and Order of the Arrow adviser-to give to a scout in the OA-. Hopefully between us we can always keep this site updated with the newest information for you.
But where is everything?
The next question some may ask would be about the free webspace that I used to offer. I still do. I just haven’t finished designing everything yet. A good deal of coding is still going on every day that you don’t see until it is finished. So if something is missing, give me till the middle of February to get it up. I should have the site completed by that time.
On the top you will find links to Static Pages. These are pages that will not list posts like the homepage will. They won’t change often, and when they do it will be with district events or major changes.
On the right you will find a few different ways to list what you might be looking for. Categories will consist of links like Website, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Merit Badges, etc, to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for
Another way of finding this is that the posts will be listed by Month. As you can see, January is the only month listed so far. Also you will be able to click on an author and read all of his post’s, just in case you know who posted something.
The Blogroll is a list of external links. Buckskin Council, BSA National, and more will eventually join them. If you want to share a post on facebook, twitter, myspace or whatever other site you use, you can! I am in the process of making a plugin that will allow you to post our blogs to your social networking sites work correctly. As you can see at the bottom of this post, it doesn’t look… right. But it soon shall.
So I hope you all like the new design. It is long overdue, and hopefully we will see alot of activity soon.
Yours in Scouting,
The Webmaster
