Best club and commercial web sites

I thought I posted this.. sorry if it is repeated
a club operation.. not so much to entice new members but to explain who we
are and to be functional for the membership

www.lvvsa.org


"Vsoars" wrote in message
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Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? Out of date sites with
pictures that don’t include recent improvements and photographs that
are obviously from another decade can’t help us recruit members.
Great web sites can. Please give us some inspiration.

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

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT), Jim Kellett
wrote:

It's actually more than a club
website, since the Club owns/manages the server which, in turn hosts a
whole bunch of Club goodies, e.g.:

Hi Jum,

interesting website, and huge club with international members!
But I was not able to find a page about the club's gliders...


Bye
Andreas

Have a look at:http://www.rideauvalleysoaring.com/

Rideau Valley Soaring - Gliding and Soaring in Ottawa Ontario Canada -
An Ottawa Gliding Club

Our webmaster proud of it and should be.

Paul

Vsoars wrote:
Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? Out of date sites with
pictures that don�t include recent improvements and photographs that
are obviously from another decade can�t help us recruit members.
Great web sites can. Please give us some inspiration.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:01:15 -0700, Vsoars wrote:

Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? Out of date sites with
pictures that don’t include recent improvements and photographs that
are obviously from another decade can’t help us recruit members. Great
web sites can. Please give us some inspiration.

While its not in the States, I think my club (Cambridge) has a decent
site: http://www.glide.co.uk/

But I think the best I've seen for attracting new blood to gliding is the
London Gliding Club: http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

I agree with Ken, pictures of "happy smiling friendly people doing fun
things with gliders" is the primary closer for websites, the second
step is a "next step" of telling the web site visitor exactly what to
do to get involved (buy a voucher, come to a meeting, schedule a ride,
etc...anything just don't leave them without a "next step"). I can't
say more.
;-)

LT

On Sep 11, 8:01*pm, Vsoars wrote:
Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? *Out of date sites with
pictures that don’t include recent improvements and *photographs that
are obviously from another decade can’t help us recruit members.
Great web sites can. *Please give us some inspiration.

We are pretty proud of the Texas Soaring Association website,
www.TexasSoaring.org . It is something of a challenge to keep the
content current when you get one that contains as many pages as we do.

Phil Umphres
SSA Region Ten Director

On Sep 13, 1:09*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:01:15 -0700, Vsoars wrote:
Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? *Out of date sites with
pictures that don’t include recent improvements and *photographs that
are obviously from another decade can’t help us recruit members. Great
web sites can. *Please give us some inspiration.

While its not in the States, I think my club (Cambridge) has a decent
site:http://www.glide.co.uk/

But I think the best I've seen for attracting new blood to gliding is the
London Gliding Club:http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/

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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org * * * |

Nice website and nice glider port ...

Do you guys ever ridge soar on that hill in the background?

KK

At 01:03 16 September 2008, Ken Kochanski KK wrote:

Nice website and nice glider port ...

Do you guys ever ridge soar on that hill in the background?

KK


Yep, in a Westerly it works fine. If the wind is moderate and more NW it
is possible to run the Chiltern ridge all the way down to Watlington and
back, 40k each way. Luton airspace allowing!

Jim

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:03:23 -0700, Ken Kochanski (KK) wrote:

On Sep 13, 1:09Â*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:01:15 -0700, Vsoars wrote:
Which clubs and commercial operations have outstanding web sites that
make people eager to give soaring a try? Â*Out of date sites with
pictures that don’t include recent improvements and Â*photographs that
are obviously from another decade can’t help us recruit members.
Great web sites can. Â*Please give us some inspiration.

While its not in the States, I think my club (Cambridge) has a decent
site:http://www.glide.co.uk/

But I think the best I've seen for attracting new blood to gliding is
the London Gliding Club:http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/

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martin@ Â* | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org Â* Â* Â* |

Nice website and nice glider port ...

Do you guys ever ridge soar on that hill in the background?

I've only flown at LGC once in a very strong westerly. The ridge was
working well. It was fun zipping past Whipsnade zoo and looking down on
the penguins and wallabies before turning and beating back. You have to
be low past the zoo because Luton said to stay below 1000 west of the
airfield. Such a shame.....


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |