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I believe PGC's website is pretty good, thanks to my partner's
efforts, KK.

http://www.pgcsoaring.org/Index.html


Chip Fitzpatrick

On Sep 12, 8:24*am, chipsoars wrote:
I believe PGC's website is pretty good, thanks to my partner's
efforts, KK.

http://www.pgcsoaring.org/Index.html

Chip Fitzpatrick

I support the website for our club and understand from our membership
chair that it is often mentioned as the reason people decided to
join ... or just come out for a ride.

We use a lot of visual content on the site - the club header is
farcical of course, but a nice visual hook for surfers ... and the
main page lets people see flight ops from two web cams. I also use
tons of recent photos on the site ... we have a number of good photogs
in the club who are sending photos of every event. I actually edit
every photo (sharpness, color balance, contrast and composition) and
select the few best in the set to maintain consistent image quality
levels - i.e. people will soon get bored by an endless stream of
'snapshots'. All of the photos I select show 'smiling happy
people' ... after all, the soaring community is a happy family, isn't
it?

In addition to a lot of individual photos - captioned with snappy and
sometimes irreverent comments if I have the time ... we have a few
nice photo montages ... a couple of members have created some very
good movies ... and we have the web cams as mentioned - so again, a
lot of visual content.

I have the full Macromedia suite and will probably build some flash/
fireworks features this winter ...

Ken Kochanski
PGC Webmaster
http://www.pgcsoaring.org/Index.html