I have been wandering around Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf (PAD) private clubhouse few times each month in ten years to social the Deaf culture in old way.
An year ago, I joined to become active member moving up a level from associate member (according to PAD Bylaws, paid annual membership club for attending the clubhouse in few years), which I can have to attend the meetings at deaf clubhouse once a month, have a right to voice, vote and hold office, and are those who have been elected. Some of PAD active members knew me that I am the only deaf web developer (not always) in southwestern of Pennsylvania. They begged me to build the better PAD web site. I was told: 'Wait and See.'
The PAD website was established in June 2001 by David Tajc (can't recall the name of person if he designed the website), with information of PAD and updates occasionally. Personally, I can see this page style is dull and gloomy with full black on background and gray (or dim pink?) in some layout; the webmaster manually modify or add information on web files, upload from his local computer to the web hosting provider.
Back to my words, Why am I saying, 'Wait and see'? The reason is I HATE to see myself and the only time to spend my responsibility by updating the information same over and over again in length of my time. Been through with this, and done that.
I have been thinking in some way that there is something I want to do: Renovated PAD website. Less work and responsibility. Ease to use. Save time. Motivated. And, the most important what I am forwarding to be: Happy.
I have researched (not for very long) the better way to fit my goal dream. I chose publishing web application platform, WordPress, which I can allow our active members to manage, control and publish the information in PAD website by only simple web user interface. I trained few of the active members who are familiar with basic web terminology, to get a taste with WordPress.
The second version of PAD website launched on September 29, 2007.
Two of the awesome features for plugins (special function add-ons) in WordPress are FAlbum (aka Flickr Album) and Event Calendar. Plugging FAlbum in WordPress to feed Flickr photos directly into PAD web site to browse PAD event photos. Event Calendar display the upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, to click highlighted box of the calendar day to view the listings of the event detail information in a page, exclusively on PAD web site.
Couldn't this get any better to make my day?
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Super cool!
Posted by Rene Visco | October 2, 2007 2:21 PM