President’s Turn 25-10
NMWT members,
This month, most of my time has been devoted to working on the club’s new sample website. I managed to avoid dealing with website development during my professional IT endeavors, but I am now learning how to do this (at least it is now much easier with the tools available as coding is only really necessary for customization beyond what is available via the user interface).
I would say that I have duplicated 70% or more of the current site’s content although I have some filling in of additional content yet to do as I have been concentrating on finding ways to emulate the current site, not populating all of the content (e.g., I have the galleries for 2025 in place, but not 2024). I’ve been trying out several different styles, so that will need to be refreshed once a best look is chosen.
The board will make recommendations at the board meeting (assuming I can get the free trial extended for another week). As everyone is welcome to attend the board meeting, if you want to have some input in what the site will look like, send me a request and I will add you to the recipients of the meeting data (this will go out Tuesday, September 23rd. The meeting is at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 24th.
I have also added a couple of example club news blogs, a mentors page (content updates will be needed), charitable programs area, and a blank WIT page (Shana is invited to populate this area). I have yet to implement the “store” for selling the club’s attire and implementing the payment portion of the membership page. Much remains to be done, so if you can help, please contact me.
Larry Evans has requested that we find some additional people to help with the equipment and logistics committee activities. He is running short of help, mostly due to other obligations. This most significantly impacts the State Fair equipment moves as we must jump when the State Fair management tells us to, so we have no flexibility in scheduling. That is behind us for this year, but please give it some thought. You do not have to commit to helping with every move, but an extra name that can help out in a pinch would be a great help.
There are a couple of tool sales that should be of interest to our membership. Mike Heiser’s tool sale that Larry Linford mentioned briefly at the September meeting, will be held on Saturday, September 27th at 580 Jubilee SW, Los Lunas, NM 87031. This sale is being held in conjunction with his neighborhood’s garage sale, in which 21 homes will be selling from their own garages. The sale will take place from 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Larry will provide a tool inventory on Tuesday, September 23rd, so keep your eyes on your email.
The other sale is the final estate sale of John Ellis’ workshop. This is an online auction which will be open from the 26th, 27th, and 28th of September. I just checked the My Auction Addiction website and did not see anything that looked like it might be John’s, but Larry said he would provide the auction name once he was able to obtain it.
The URL for My Auction Addiction is: https://www.albuquerqueauctionaddiction.com/.
That’s it for this month,
Mark
