Forfar and District Hill Walking Club
Work is now underway to convert the site to newer web technology. There may be some disruption over the next few weeks.
The old site was mainly client based (i.e. the web pages were mainly static and just displayed on your PC),
although there was a little bit of server side code too based on the original Active Server Page (ASP)
technology and script written in a language called Visual Basic Script (VB-Script).
The new site will use newer technology called ASP.NET 3.5 with scripts written in a language called C Sharp (C#). This allows us to add more server-side code including a couple of databases.
Much of the club administration and documentation will be added to the server side.
This will be interactive :- allowing both committee and members to interact with
the databases and the rest of the club. eg. contact updates, broadcast email (possibly SMS text
broadcasts), book for meets, add photos etc.
Hopefully we can also finally add the blog and the "who's going out this weekend"
stuff too.
The new site will have both public and private sections. The private
section will be multi-level (webmaster, committee, member). In order to use
the private section you will need a username and password. This will be issued
later.
Over the next few weeks, web pages will be slowy migrated to the new system.
Hopefully, there should be no major problems. I'm testing here with
Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows XP SP3. I know we have members using
other Windows based browsers (IE 6.0, IE 7.0, Firefox and BT Yahoo are the
others I know about). I also know some members are using Windows Vista
(probably upgrading to Windows 7) and some are using Apple Macs. I can't test
everything, so please feedback any issues you find and they will be fixed ASAP.
New site (testing):
Link to new site
Feedback:
Email feedback here
In the meantime - the old site can be reached here
Link to old site