Thursday, April 22, 2010

Mother-Son Rafting Trip permission slip available for download

Permission slips for all upcoming events, in PDF and MS Word formats, can be found on the Permission Slips page:

t380.org > Downloads > Permission Slips/Event Info

  • Scout Expo: Apr 30 - May 2 (Please also download the
    Hold Harmless Agreement)
  • Mother-Scout Rafting Trip: May 16th
  • River Cats Game: Jun 19th
  • Camp Royaneh: Jul 4-10

Troop Phone List and Roster (secure documents) updated

Two updated PDFs for download, each protected by (the same) password.

t380.org > Downloads > Phone List/Roster

Thanks, Floyd!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Minor updates to two pages

  • t380.org > Downloads > Phone List/Roster
    Fixed copy/paste typo: Phone list mentioned in Roster section
  • t380.org > Scouts > Honor Scouts
    Removed "Last updated ..." note
    Moved "Honor Scouts of Troop 380" to below the Honor Scout image

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Troop 380 Roster now available as a downloadable file under "Downloads" > "Phone List/Roster"

t380.org > Downloads > Phone List/Roster


The Roster is also a list of active scouts in the troop, but it is sorted by patrol. Information for each boy includes phone number, age, rank and date of last rank, and leadership position (if applicable). If you notice any errors, or need to update any of the information therein, please email Floyd Brown, the membership ASM.

For privacy reasons, the Troop 380 Phone List has been protected by a user name and password. Ask Dave or any Assistant Scoutmaster for that information.

Thanks, Floyd!

Cosmetic tab name changes to under "Downloads"

  • "Permission Slips & Event Info" --> "Permission Slips/Event Info"
  • "Phone List" --> "Phone List/Roster"

I wanted to change "Phone List" to "Phone List & Roster," but I was running out of space. Instead of change font size I just reduced the length of the updated tab's width as well as the width-hog on the left...

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Search results might point to pages that don't exist...

The nifty search feature (right hand side of the t380.org home page) is pretty slick, but since the structure of pages has changed, the results will point to the old pages, which no longer exist.

It will take some time for Google (and other search engines) to re-crawl our site...but when they do, the search results will be correct again.

River Cats Game flyer/order form ready for download

Please see the Permission Slips & Event Info page on t380.org to download the River Cats Game flyer/order form:

t380.org > Downloads > Permission Slips & Event Info

Note: the Permission Slips & Event Info page is part of what used to be the old "Forms" page. 

Thanks, Maryann!

"Permission Slips" tab now reads, "Permission Slips & Event Info"

t380.org > Downloads > Permission Slips

is now

t380.org > Downloads > Permission Slips & Event Info

The URL remains the same: t380.org/permissionslips, but I changed the name of the tab to better reflect the content, since I'm adding the Rivercats info...which isn't a permission slip...

Thanks, Maryann!

"Email Floyd..." button added to "Join Troop 380" page

t380.org/join

The "Join" page now has a shiny green button that links directly to emailing Floyd Brown, the membership ASM.

Thanks, Floyd!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

New embedded Google search feature on t380.org

The home page has an ad-free search feature now! Pretty cool, huh?

Do you think the search should be available from every page, or do you like it how it is (just on the home page, t380.org)? Email your opinions to webmaster@t380.org or comment directly to this blog post (preferred in this case).

New page: "Join"

t380.org/join

Did you notice the yellow box in the upper-right of every page? Now our guests have more information (and a link to email Floyd Brown) about Scouting and Troop 380 specifically.

If you have any additional information that should go on this page, please email me: webmaster@t380.org

Forms --> Downloads

As more and more electronic documents go up on the site, they don't all fall under the category of "Forms."

The old Forms page has been renamed to "Downloads" and now has several sub-pages:

  • Newsletter (The Eagle)
  • Permission Slips
  • Phone List

If any scout or scouter out there has a document or file of any kind that should be on t380.org, please email me: webmaster@t380.org

"Leadership" and "Patrols" pages no longer on t380.org

The "Leadership" and "Patrols" pages were never really updated, nor did it look like they ever would be on a useful enough basis. Besides, who needs to look on the web who is in what patrol? You can pretty much determine that at every meeting based on were people sit, right?

If anyone desperately wants these pages to appear back on the site, you're also volunteering to update them for the forseeable future...but I'm willing to negotiate!   :P

PLEASE READ -- LOTS OF CHANGES

Many enhancements were  made to the t380.org site, though most of them should be transparent. Several blog posts will follow this one to highlight the changes.

IMPORTANT: if you have bookmarked any page on the site except the home page (t380.org) or a particular photo album, your bookmarks will now be broken. That's because the file structure (how the pages and content are organized) has been overhauled to make more sense.

Examples:

  • t380.org/photos2007.html     -->     t380.org/photos/2007/
  • t380.org/committee.html       -->     t380.org/scouters/committee/

I don't anticipate changes like this in the future, mainly because things are now the way they should have been the entire time (if I wasn't so lazy in the beginning).

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Silver Beavers page corrected

The Silver Beavers page had a typo: Erik Carlson was listed as a 2010 recipient, which has been corrected to read that he's in fact a 2009 recipient.

t380.org > Scouters > Silver Beavers