gun club websites

terminator2

Are there gun clubs out there that have websites that you can look at or are they hiding them somewhere.Its just that i wouldnt mind having a look around to see the way other gun clubs are operating.The most successful club in the country by far DRUMCONRATH doesnt have a web page would they not let us know what they are doing so right or we are doing so wrong.!!!!!!

pullandbang

Here's one I baked earlier;

Dunderry Gun Club

Now don't get too excited, it's not that great and apologies for the pop up ads. I have it hosted on one of those freebie hosting places.

Trojan911

This is the best I could do. (stole it off Sparks sig)


Ok, "Cut & Paste" sorted (bloody gremlins again:D)

pullandbang

Trojan911 wrote: »

This is the best I could do. (stole it off Sparks sig)

Am I missing something here? Link? Website? What?

The suspense is killing me.....:eek:

bunny shooter

Sparks stole it back ?

Sparks

I think someone mucked up the cut-n-paste, but here's a post to steal it from again

endasmail

http://www.courtlough.ie
hope that works

lordarpad

http://www.pcquad.com/index.htm

Rovi

The last two links posted above are for Target Shooting Clubs, I got the impression that the OP meant 'Gun Clubs' in the Irish sense: local game clubs, usually affiliated to the NARGC.

This is the Hunting section, after all.


Well done to pullandbang on the Dunderry site, it's the first and only one I've ever seen for an Irish Gun Club.

Sparks

Let's make it two so

Bornacoola Gun Club

terminator2

heres our 50 cents worth http://owenmull2.synthasite.com/ i just wanted to get some idea of the kinda sites that are out there and maybe get some ideas so take a look and tell us what you think.

meathstevie

http://agacc.net/, Athboy Gunclub

Story Man

Is the Athboy Club involved in the National Country Fair at Ballinlough Castle on 18 & 19 July?

It's just a few miles from you guys.

Just wondering

SM

pullandbang

meathstevie wrote: »

http://agacc.net/, Athboy Gunclub

Nice site.....but what's with the fish????

cavan shooter

I put together a web site but at the moment I have not made it public.

It's not that I'm paranoid but doesnt take much to put 2 and 2 together and get 4.

Only members as such no about it

What do you guys think??? That your waving a big red flag

Sparks

Is that the "Keep schtum, say nothing lest someone complain" school of thought CS?

pullandbang

cavan shooter wrote: »

What do you guys think??? That your waving a big red flag

Let it out........

Think carefully about the content though - do we really need to see lots of pictures of dead foxes, birds etc? Lets see more pics of the bird rearing and releasing, habitat conservation etc - all the positive work we do.

TBH I don't think the sites will get a huge amount of traffic other than from those in the know. They are useful for annoncing AGM's etc but there are other ways of doing that - texting, e mailing, post! You can even Twitter.:D

clivej

What I see happening is that these web sites don't get updated because theres not anyone intrested enough to do it.
The midlands website still has the 'Events' showing 2007 fixtures.

What is needed is a Content Management System on the web pages where the page can be updated 'On the Fly' by people who do not have to know HTML code to do it. That way you can get a lot more members involved in the running of the web site.
They can change the front end pages but the website designer or administrator has control of the back end and who is allowed to change the front end pages.

Have a look at "CMS Made Simple" it's free to use,download,works well, and is SIMPLE to use.
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/

Just a thought. I get them now and then.

Sparks

That's exactly the system (albiet with different software, namely Joomla and Vivio) used in the NTSA and ICPSA and WTSC websites. Works, but you still need folks to contribute content!

clivej

Sparks wrote: »

That's exactly the system (albiet with different software, namely Joomla and Vivio) used in the NTSA and ICPSA and WTSC websites. Works, but you still need folks to contribute content!

Joomla, Mambo and others I found a pain to use. I wrote a submission for a third year term project in college on many of these Systems. I can give 'would be web designers' a link to a copy if wanted.

Sparks

Mambo was a total pain, agreed. Joomla 1.0 was, well, better but still difficult. Joomla 1.5 is a significant improvement. There are easier systems to use, but few that have the level of support those two have.

As to programming for them, Mambo was icky, Joomla remains icky, Drupal is a mindphuck beyond comparison and generally, they're all messy.

But for just plain ordinary input, well, the new Joomla's not horrific. Wordpress is pretty good too if it's all you need.

clivej

I found CMS Made Simple was the one to use as for ease of use. It may not have all the bells and whistles but boy it works good.

Link to my Content Management System college submission if anyone is intrested. It gives a rundown of some different systems and how to install them on a server.
In word doc format and 4mB in size.

http://www.stuff2bits.com/CMS_Project.doc

pullandbang

Before this thread drifts off into techie stuff and Sparks has to move it to the Tech Forum can I use just bits of those programmes and say put a news page as just one or two pages in a static site?

For example could I add a Joola or whatever to the tracpcoach.com site which is basic and static?

Sparks

It's not quite as simple as that I'm afraid - but you can do simple websites quite easily with this sort of stuff. I used wordpress to do up a website for herself's book for example, and it's hardly very complicated.

pullandbang

Damn! I had visions of being able to have a nice sexy news page on the Dunderry site which is pretty crap and maybe doing one from my other local club. I already have a package for putting sites together and it's easy to use - thought I could add a bit of CMS to it.

I have it downloaded so I'll play around with it. I love the way the ICPSA site twitters.......:) I presume that option is part of Joomla?

Sparks

I think the ICPSA site is actually Vivio not Joomla, but yes, joomla has a plugin that twitters. It also has one that SMSs you when a new story is put up online, but I'm still kicking that one about to get it to work for the NTSA and WTSC.

terminator2

Its some can of worms all right