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Originally Posted by amanda6035
GIN SYSTEM! Check out the link in my signature. 
Plus, the way it's designed, the chapters have serveral different layouts they can choose from, and they can switch it up as often or as little as they want. They can add pages, and take away pages (except for the national history and general insignia stuff. AXiD just implemented this over the summer, and some chapters are still using their own websites, but FHQ provided one to every single chapter to use, if they wanted it. The website is just frosting though - the real reason behind GIN system is it's a communication portal - announcements, calendar, wuot text message reminders (if you sign up for them), sign up to buy t-shirts, stuff like that. It's a REALLY cool system. I didn't think I would like it, because I'm not a fan of the cookie cutter websites (like Chapter Communications - no offense, but I couldnt stand the way theirs was set up).
I think Phi Mu and ADPi are also using GIN....I could be mistaken though.... |
Please don't think I am trying to attack you or the GIN system (if nothing else, I like that it sounds like liquor
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But...
When I looked at 5-7 GIN sites, they looked just as "cookie cutter" as Chapter Communications sites.... and to me, that's not really saying a lot.
Both are content management systems which provide a lot of different templates you can use. I never knew about GIN before today, but more power to them.
I just don't see the significant non-cookie cutterness that you're describing.
(Like for example, all CC websites have the left hand navigation, and all the GIN sites I saw have the up-top navigation.)