Hi everyone,

Just wanted to invite you to check out our club's new
website. www.eccpweb.com

Feel free to stop by the site from time to time and see what
we're up to . Feel free to comment as well!

Best regards!

Hello Lee,

I finally had an opportunity to tour www.eccpweb.com this morning. The site
is very sophisticated from a webmaster's viewpoint. I'm assuming you have a
professional in your club who's working with it. The site is obviously very
nice, indeed.

I see a lot of messages, polls, and links on the site, but not a lot of club
content. Either those pages are hidden, or your club is still working on
that. It will be the content that will continually draw people to your
site.

Good luck with your club. You've done a great job, so far.

Lynn Ostrem, President
garbagecop@earthlink.net
Crow River Investment Club
www.bivio.com/crowriver

Lee,

Your website is very impressive.

I'd like to know more about the mechanics of the page. Is your club paying
a monthly fee to a web hosting service?

Best wishes,

Bob Hooper
New Pueblo Investment Club
Tucson, AZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee DeAngelis" <leejd75@bivio.com>
To: <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:45 PM
Subject: club_cafe: New Club Website


> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wanted to invite you to check out our club's new
> website. www.eccpweb.com
>
> Feel free to stop by the site from time to time and see what
> we're up to . Feel free to comment as well!
>
> Best regards!

Lynn,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Actually I put the
site together myself using Wordpress and a godaddy hosting
account. It's pretty straight forward and easy to do. We
actually have another site that is more for ECCP members:
www.electriccitypartners.com (you need a membership to
access most of it). www.eccpweb.com is meant to be our
public face and Im still in the process of getting it up and
running so stay tuned for updates.

Lee

Lynn Ostrem wrote:
> Hello Lee,
>
> I finally had an opportunity to tour www.eccpweb.com this morning. The site
> is very sophisticated from a webmaster's viewpoint. I'm assuming you have a
> professional in your club who's working with it. The site is obviously very
> nice, indeed.
>
> I see a lot of messages, polls, and links on the site, but not a lot of club
> content. Either those pages are hidden, or your club is still working on
> that. It will be the content that will continually draw people to your
> site.
>
> Good luck with your club. You've done a great job, so far.
>
> Lynn Ostrem, President
> garbagecop@earthlink.net
> Crow River Investment Club
> www.bivio.com/crowriver

Bob,

I used wordpress to create the site. You can create your own
site for free at wordpress.com. Its basically a blog
software that you can customize. I bought the domain for $8
from godaddy.com and host it there for $4 a month. The
reason I pay is because you get a bit more freedom to edit
the page (you have to download the software from
Wordpress.org if you host it yourself...you'll need to know
a bit about MySQL and PHP as well but its still fairly
easy). We also have a members only site (you need an account
to access it) at www.electriccitypartners.com that our
treasurer hosts on one of his business servers. The site you
visited earlier is going to be our public face.

Best Wishes,
Lee

Bob and Candi Hooper wrote:
> Lee,
>
> Your website is very impressive.
>
> I'd like to know more about the mechanics of the page. Is your club paying
> a monthly fee to a web hosting service?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bob Hooper
> New Pueblo Investment Club
> Tucson, AZ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee DeAngelis" <leejd75@bivio.com>
> To: <club_cafe@bivio.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:45 PM
> Subject: club_cafe: New Club Website
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just wanted to invite you to check out our club's new
> > website. www.eccpweb.com
> >
> > Feel free to stop by the site from time to time and see what
> > we're up to . Feel free to comment as well!
> >
> > Best regards!

Thanks for the info, Lee. I'm familiar with godaddy, but not wordpress.
Everyone thinks I'm a whiz (!) but it couldn't be further from the truth! I
use FrontPage to build and maintain my own homepage and those of my friends
here on bivio. Again, I think content can cover up the fact that I use
"novice" software. That, and fun graphics.

So my question to you is this: Why bother having a public face separate
from your main website? Is it to draw new members? Is there anything there
for your members that is not on the main site? Just curious.

I had our club page on geocities until we set up shop on bivio. We like it
here. It's an easy one-stop shop. Anyway, I might touch base with you
privately about godaddy for a different venture. Thanks for sharing your
info.

Lynn Ostrem, Vice President and Education Chair
Crow River Investment Club
garbagecop@earthlink.net
www.bivio.com/crowriver

Lee,

Thanks for the info on Wordpress... I'll check it out! Like Lynn, I enjoy
the challenges associated with developing and maintaining websites. My
personal sites are hosted by Homestead for a nominal monthly fee. My next
project is to design a website for our club...between you and Lynn I should
be able to receive lots of expert advice!

Thanks, again, for the info!

Best wishes,

Bob Hooper
New Pueblo Investment Club
Tucson, AZ

Bob and Lynn,

If there is anything I can do to help with your website just
say the word.

Lynn, to answer your question: the Wordpress
site(eccpweb.com) allows to do many things, like post video,
that we never got around to putting on our main site. It is
also easier for our less Internet savvy members to use. Our
main site (electriccitypartenrs.com) has some features that
our more advanced members can use, like private message
boards and the ability to set up your own personal
portfolios on the site. Eventually we will probably merge
them somehow but for now we're going to run them parallel.
And yes, the eccpweb is nice eye candy for attracting new
members when we're ready to take them on.

Regards
Lee
ljdeangelis@gmail.com


Lynn Ostrem wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Lee. I'm familiar with godaddy, but not wordpress.
> Everyone thinks I'm a whiz (!) but it couldn't be further from the truth! I
> use FrontPage to build and maintain my own homepage and those of my friends
> here on bivio. Again, I think content can cover up the fact that I use
> "novice" software. That, and fun graphics.
>
> So my question to you is this: Why bother having a public face separate
> from your main website? Is it to draw new members? Is there anything there
> for your members that is not on the main site? Just curious.
>
> I had our club page on geocities until we set up shop on bivio. We like it
> here. It's an easy one-stop shop. Anyway, I might touch base with you
> privately about godaddy for a different venture. Thanks for sharing your
> info.
>
> Lynn Ostrem, Vice President and Education Chair
> Crow River Investment Club
> garbagecop@earthlink.net
> www.bivio.com/crowriver