Check out this Scouting site

I was asked to design and manage a web sie for Nicholas' Scouting group, Ridgewood 195. They were one of the last groups in this district to have a web site. Shauna naturally volunteered me and after making up a very rough test site they agreed to let me design it for them. The design of the site itself was not that complicated. The application I use, Rapidweaver, is very user friendly and can generate very unique designs based on various templates. The tricky part comes when it goes from me volunteering my limited, self-taught knowledge to the demands of a professional web master.

I decided that it would be best if I could set up each section to be updated remotely and not through me. I use various web based applications to update this site so setting up a blog page was easy. I looked no further than Blogger. I created a free blogger account for each section then used a Rapidweaver page to pull that information and embed it with our site, in our template.
Next they all wanted calendars, (or maybe I suggested it). Again I turned to Google. Google calendars are free and once you have one account set up with google, you get access to so much else. Once the online calendar is updated it again gets embedded in our site to our own template. Every section can now post entries to their blog and update events all from their own homes, which leaves me with the general smooth running to deal with. Aside from a few areas that only I can update and to be honest it's only a few pages at most, it's all taken care of remotely.

Check it out and leave a comment if you like what you see.

http://195ridgewood.com

A smart blonde chick

Ok, so I know that the dumb blonde chick jokes are very patronizing and generally wrong but still. This girl makes some very good points, depending on your own views of course.