Website

Hey everyone! The website I made for my chapter has been in the making for a long long time, but it's finally 100% complete! please check it out and leave a message on our guestbook.


Thanks so much!

p.s. I know this is kind of a lame thread, but i've just worked really hard on the website and I am really proud of it.

[Tom Earp]

Sweet.

Very very nice.

Congratulations and much envy from me for you being to be able to put this together!

You should be proud!

[bichonl]

Great job. jessicaelaine!

[DeltAlum]

Very nicely done. Congratulations.

[Texas Beta]

I was working on ours for a while, www.utbeta.org but it has major back end problems, we tried to build a huge online alumn database and it sorta crashed. We're working on a new site right now, a lot simpler and cleaner.

Really nice website, how long did it take you to get it up and running? Also, which hosting company do you use? I've been shopping around.

[Alpha Sig Scott]

Outstanding job

I noticed in your photos section an event titled "Big little with Alpha Sigma Pi. Our Gamma Psi chapter is at Lawrence Technological University. Is there also an Alpha Sigma Pi fraternity as well as ours? My guess is this is just a typo.

[LegallyBrunette]

Very nice!

[purplewindex]

I've been working on my chapter's for about a year now. Some of the sections still aren't working, like some of the photos, but check it out

www.sigmakappawmu.com

[twinkle555]

Originally Posted by purplewindex

I've been working on my chapter's for about a year now. Some of the sections still aren't working, like some of the photos, but check it out

www.sigmakappawmu.com

i LOVE your website!! i especially love ya'lls paddles.. they are so creative!

[agrphi]

Very nice sites everyone!! Its how we are all going to be able to recruit members in the future and keep track of the alumni/alumnae.

[Tom Earp]

Am very Green with envy to see people able to do this.

It is still neat as is a very good selling tool for those looking.

Very nice web sites one and all!

[REE1993]

It's a nice site.

I would make sure that if your Nationals has policies regarding web sites, you make sure you find out and know them. I know that my nationals has standards. for continuity purposes, and to make sure that we represent ourselves well.

I did see some drinks on tables... just be careful.

[SoCalGirl]

I really like both the DPhiE site and SK site. 'Course I'm partial to the SK site though.

However, they do both display two of my pet peeves about chapter sites and sites in general.

For the DPhiE site: When I viewed it on my computer at home the proportion was off so instead of seeing "delta phi epsilon, alpha psi chapter" I was seeing "hi epsilon si chapter". It left me wondering if it was my computer or the site that was messed up. When I view it on my parents computer it's perfect.

I'd suggest sticking somewhere on the front page a "Best viewed in..." notice. That way it's clear where the problem lies.

For the SK site: I was left wondering where your chapter is located. Based on address, emails, and photos I figured out it's Western Michigan University. Somewhere on the front page you should have something like "Welcome to the Gamma Beta Chapter of Sigma Kappa Sorority at Western Michigan University". Even if you don't give any more information about the school I'd have enough to look up the school site and learn more about the personality of the school and chapter, etc.

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I second Ree's caution about national guidelines. As a formal chapter advisor I know that while I may see things on a site that don't bother me personally that there are people more powerful in HQ that may see a picture and think negatively of the contents. I once had to tell my girls to remove a few photos because I knew that if a certain HQ officer who would more than likely see the site sooner than later saw the pics she would pop a vein over the images. Now I'm rambling.

JessicaElaine ~ I'd just make sure that your content and photos are in line with your HQ guidelines re alcohol, big/lil bro policies, men at recruitment guidelines, etc. It appears that your the only national sorority at your school so I can understand that there may be things that are tradition on campus that don't jive with HQ rules.

hey everyone, thanks for the great comments and suggestions.

that alpha sigma pi was a type-o but it's changed to phi now. i was actually told about that once, but couldn't for the life of me figure out there the type-o was.

and, we do have guidelines for our websites, which is one of the reasons the site has been so long in the making. i had to keep on submitting the website to our national site for a while until it got approved. so, if you found a photo with drinks in it, that is surpirsing. if it's not too much trouble, could you give me a link to the picture so i can delete it?

Thanks again everyone!

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by jessicaelaine

Hey everyone! The website I made for my chapter has been in the making for a long long time, but it's finally 100% complete! please check it out and leave a message on our guestbook.

http://www.ltudphie.org

Thanks so much!

p.s. I know this is kind of a lame thread, but i've just worked really hard on the website and I am really proud of it.

From a desktop layout point of view, the site is a little awkward. You may want to reverse the order of your frames because your text is squeezed into a small portion of the page while a picture, which I am sure means something to your chapter, takes up the majority of the page space.

Also, the Sisters page probably has more personal information about the sisters than is safe to appear on the web.

On a positive note, the color scheme is very nice and the pics are fun to look at.