You are looking at the Seattle Floating Homes Association's new web site. We are hopeful that this version will be easier for visitors to use and less hassle for volunteers to maintain.
This effort has been underway since last spring. It has taken, as Emily Hine (2920 Westlake) says, "its own sweet volunteer time." But we've decided the time has come to shoot the developers and let it loose.
Thanks are due to those volunteers, including Emily herself. She provided much of the early energy and managed the rest of us into coming up with design, structure and content for the new site. She also worked with Dolphin Design to develop its visual look. Sheryl Landon (2019 Fairview) took the design and cast it into working code using Drupal, an open source "Content Management System." In the run-up to going live these last few weeks, Marilyn Robertson (2920 Fuhrman) and Giff Jones (2600 Fairview) have put in a lot of hours getting the content ready. I (Bill Keasler, 2037 Fairview) was able to help with some of the coding, and I'm also currently the webmaster.
Marilyn, being the Newsletter editor, points out that our regular Newsletter contributors deserve much of the credit for what ever is interesting here. Without their efforts, this site would be a thin broth indeed.
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about the structure or operation of the site itself, a good target for that is me, webmaster@seattlefloatinghomes.org
We hope we're just getting started. The point of another revision (we're now on 4.0) was to make it easier to add functionality and content. We expect to do a lot of that ourselves in the next few months. We're also excited about the new site's interactive features which let visitors get involved by commenting on the stories or registering their Flickr albums or posting to the Forums. So we're depending on you, too.
Keep an eye on us!