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My advice to seek someone out who knows what they're doing. I don't care much for the commercial developers (that's just me--I think they spend a lot of time and money doing very little and I find that they don't ever update things), but I would find someone in your chapter who has some knowledge or has a friend with knowledge or--better yet--find someone in another organization with the knowledge. I'm sure your chapter could invite them to a party or get them a nice gift or something. Or just make a MySpace page for your chapter in the meantime.
Slightly unrelated rant:
I know a lot of chapters that do things like, "oh you're secretary--well now you're in charge of the Web site." An easier solution is to create a Webmaster position or let the secretary know he/she can delegate the responsibility. At GMU, IT 103 (final project: make a Web site) was a gen ed and yet everyone acted like making a site required a triple PhD in nerdology. It's not difficult stuff--just don't make it more complicated than it is. I see people with MySpace pages that have custom backgrounds and themes and music and animations (all made with HTML) and mp3's they got from BitTorrent and then they're like, "oh Web sites, whoa, I'm certainly no computer geek here." It's 2008. You're on a computer right now. You can handle it.
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