Websites

[JenMarie]

Originally posted by TxAPhi
My thoughts on what makes a great website:

Needs great high quality pictures, crisp colors, and good content. Content needs to appeal to all potential audiences - Potential Members, Current Members, Alumnae, Other Greeks, Parents, Administrators, and the Community --- you never know who may be looking at it!
List your accomplishments prominently.
Have a password protected site for members and alumnae.


List of my favorite APhi Websites

Iota - University of Wisconsin-Madison http://alphaphi.rso.wisc.edu/
Sigma - University of Washington http://students.washington.edu/alphaphi/home.html
Tau - University of Oregon http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~alphaphi/
Psi - University of South Dakota http://www.usd.edu/~aphi/
Omega - University of Texas http://www.texasalphaphi.org/
Beta Nu deuteron - Duke University http://www.duke.edu/web/aphi/index.html
Beta Omicron - Bowling Green State University http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/greeks/alpha-phi/
Gamma Iota - Texas Tech University http://www.techaphi.com/
Gamma Kappa - California State University - Long Beach http://www.csulb.edu/greek/alphaphi/
Gamma Omicron - Drake University www.drakealphaphi.org
Delta Mu - Purdue University http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~alphaphi/
Zeta Beta – Loyola Marymount http://aslmu.lmu.edu/alphaphi/
Zeta Pi - Case-Western Reserve University http://home.cwru.edu/alphaphi/
Zeta Upsilon - Washington University http://www.rescomp.wustl.edu/~aphi/
Eta Omicron - Virginia Tech http://www.vtalphaphi.com
Iota Theta - Wilfrid Laurier http://www.wluphis.com/
Iota Iota - The George Washington University http://www.alphaphionline.com/iotaiota/

The chapter here just updated their page. It looks pretty slick. We may rival them in Greek Week, but I gotta give them props for the layout.
http://www.aphicsus.com/

ETA: The other cool site for the gals is www.phisigcsus.com. I think.

Re: Music
If it's part of your little intro... fine. But if it plays on your homepage and it takes forever to load, no one will hear it and it'll just take up bandwidth. But I agree with the "stop/start" buttons.

Re: Guestbooks
Ours gets spammed A LOT. I have to delete something EVERY DAY. Is there a code or something I can put somewhere to block it?

[TSteven]

Originally posted by JenMarie
Re: Guestbooks
Ours gets spammed A LOT. I have to delete something EVERY DAY. Is there a code or something I can put somewhere to block it?

Unfortunately, I am not computer techno savvy so I do not know any code to help you block spam. However, I have seen public guest-books on various websites that are monitored. Not sure if any were for GLOs but I do recall that most were professionally and or well designed.

I seem to recall that they had some sort of disclaimer that said something like "All messages posted to the guest-book (message board) must be approved. Any messages in poor taste will not be approved etc." So basically, a designated monitor(s) has to approve the message before it is posted in the guest-book.

Frankly, I don't know how this works. It may be similar to Yahoo Groups where the monitor(s) receives an email notice that a message has been posted in the guest-book and is awaiting approval. And/or the monitor(s) may need to check the site to see if any messages are awaiting approval.

In any case, there might be something similar with your guest-book that allows messages to be approved before they are posted. If not, and you are able to do so, change guest-books to one that requires/allows messages to be approved. Or instead of a guest-book on the website, have a direct link to a website that hosts message boards *and* allows posts to be approved before they are posted.

[JenMarie]

Yeah that's what I figure I have to do... it's just that I'm an alumna so I'm trying not to have my inbox flooded with SPAM requests.

Since our guestbook isn't as popular as it once was (I'd exceed bandwidth almost every month because of it) I may move it to our password site. And then let the girls carry on in MySpace like they have been.

Keep the ideas coming... I'm sketching out a re-design... again.

One question for the webmasters out there: I am venturing into CSS. Currently I use tables on my chapter's page and they SHIFT everywhere, depending on the browser.

Is there a way to lock your table in place... or only make one section of the table expand without messing with your sidebar navigation? Or need more clarification...

PM me if you want.