Squadron Websites

[Daniel]

Still, you cannot have a Cadet that is currently at an airman rank hold the position of First Sergeant, emphasis on the Sergeant part. I am not telling you how to run your flight, I am telling you what the regulation of having a First Sergeant is. It even says it in your Leadership Book. Chapter 6 I do believe.

As a wise senior NCO once said your paygrade cant and shouldnt make that call....

Techincally a Sq/cc can do whatever he/she pleases as long as Wing/NHQ doesn't care.

Find one Sqn without a violation of reg. and I'll pay you $10

[C/MSgt Lunsford]

Still, you cannot have a Cadet that is currently at an airman rank hold the position of First Sergeant, emphasis on the Sergeant part. I am not telling you how to run your flight, I am telling you what the regulation of having a First Sergeant is. It even says it in your Leadership Book. Chapter 6 I do believe.

As a wise senior NCO once said your paygrade cant and shouldnt make that call....

Techincally a Sq/cc can do whatever he/she pleases as long as Wing/NHQ doesn't care.

Find one Sqn without a violation of reg. and I'll pay you $10

I'll take you up on that bet...

[Daniel]

I must warn you,

I'm the best there ever was.

NO. but seriously you dont wanna try me. I'm a cripple cadet had to take three months off cap and read the regs.. even if I don't know that specific reg ill find it.

All sqn have some violation in my opionion it what makes thier programme work AS LONG as its not a Public Affairs/Safety/Legal

CAN WE GET BACK ON TOPIC CAUSE I WANNA HELP THIS GENTLEMEN WITH HIS SQNS SITE

[Eclipse]

Technically a Sq/cc can do whatever he/she pleases as long as Wing/NHQ doesn't care.

No, they can't. 

And what happens when the next higher HQ does find out is not generally pleasant, ranging from hurt feelings to new staff or commanders.  There's a big difference between legitimate mistakes and blatantly defying the rules.  Everyone makes mistakes or misinterprets things, that is not a justification for continued bad behavior.

Isn't reading the following the regulations easier?  It also teaches the proper lessons, which is actually the point.

[DakRadz]

You mean the Cadet Master Sergeant who is in the process of turning Senior Member? Who just joined our squadron three weeks ago? Someone I've known for about that long? I'm really going to make an unknown cadet who is nearly a SM an authority figure with a cadet title?

So the C/MSgt ceases to be an authority figure when he turns SM?  Does that mean when he is a SM you don't have to call him "Sir"?

No sir, not at all- that's why I said I wouldn't make him an authority figure with a cadet title (First Sergeant, Element Leader)- not saying I don't respect him, but that he will automatically be an authority figure once his papers show "SM" instead of "Cadet." Which will be as soon as all documents are submitted and NHQ verifies.

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Lunsford- Seriously, read before you think.

Not been updated. He isn't.

A response to what you said about him being a cadet SrA- he isn't. Actually wasn't for any of the time he's been First Sergeant
Oh, and this was posted almost immediately after you said it the first time. So you should have known about this. For most of this argument that you've been continuing. Yep.
Now, Seriously- if you really want to continue this, then send me a PM.
If not, please contribute worthwhile and valid concerns on the website itself- NOT the program. I wish you would stick to the real topic- you can nitpick wonderfully

I was going to comment but then I was caught up in attempting to add up myself on your point system. Unlike most of the people that posted I find the nav-system to be of good length. Now I would just make sure that your pages actually have content before publishing them for instance, "Who We Are" > "Cadets" is a page with the number "23" on it. Which says nothing about your cadet programme

Thank you, I hadn't even seen that one. And I was told by the Sqd/CC that I could certainly repair the site- after I get everything fixed and purdy, I have an apparent "computer whiz" cadet who I'm going to ask to maintain it.

[Eclipse]

Lose the background image, 1/2 the text is not legible.

Your graphics need to be transparent and cleaned up, or be included in a framed header.

Also, if you do use transperant images, make sure areas that are supposed to be white, stay white.
(The seal does not included "sky" in the color scheme).

You spelled "auxiliary" wrong.

[DakRadz]

Okay, great pointers- but I am completely lost on where we spelled Auxiliary wrong. Specifically?

[Eclipse]

Okay, great pointers- but I am completely lost on where we spelled Auxiliary wrong. Specifically?

MADE YOU LOOK!

(Wheee!  That never gets old!)

[DakRadz]

That was wrong. On soooo many levels.

Nice one sir.  :clap:

Is there any sort of program that can make images without the white background? As in, the picture isn't always square/rectangular, it's the shape of the (shield, wing patch, seal, etc.)? I don't think Paint will do it, but Photoshop probably would... Any freeware out there to help me out?

[A.Member]

Is there any sort of program that can make images without the white background? As in, the picture isn't always square/rectangular, it's the shape of the (shield, wing patch, seal, etc.)? I don't think Paint will do it, but Photoshop probably would... Any freeware out there to help me out?

You need to create the image as a .PNG file.  Photoshop, GIMP, and a bunch of others will allow you to do this.

[DakRadz]

Free advice AND software? Thank you very much!
GIMP downloading. Should be good! Heck, I have plenty of uses for this.

[Майор Хаткевич]

That was wrong. On soooo many levels.

Nice one sir.  :clap:

Is there any sort of program that can make images without the white background? As in, the picture isn't always square/rectangular, it's the shape of the (shield, wing patch, seal, etc.)? I don't think Paint will do it, but Photoshop probably would... Any freeware out there to help me out?

I use .png and .gif (png is better) when needed. My signature is a .gif I think, as you can see, it's clear in the background, but I can make certain parts retain the colors. I use photoshop 7.0

[cap235629]

As a father of a teenager I take exception with publishing my childrens names on a website without specific permission from ME. I would change the names of Cadet to c/Sgt Jessica L.

This is a day and age the less personal identifying information put out there, the better.

[Майор Хаткевич]

As a father of a teenager I take exception with publishing my childrens names on a website without specific permission from ME. I would change the names of Cadet to c/Sgt Jessica L.

This is a day and age the less personal identifying information put out there, the better.

Which goes out the window if they use facebook or ever get mentioned in a CAP article. A search for my name brings up about three dozen CAP related articles/pages.

[HGjunkie]

As a father of a teenager I take exception with publishing my childrens names on a website without specific permission from ME. I would change the names of Cadet to c/Sgt Jessica L.

This is a day and age the less personal identifying information put out there, the better.

[Nitpick]- it's an uppercase "C", and either SSgt, TSgt, MSgt etc...[/Nitpick]

I agree with the green text.

[raivo]

My main observation (I'm not sure if it's been mentioned):

If you're going to have a background image, you need to have something solid behind the text (which seems to have been done on the main page, but nowhere else.) That being said, having the background behind the individual lines of text makes me wince. The preferable thing to do would be to give the entire content "box" its own solid background, then have the background image behind that.

As far as the image itself, it should be a bit wider if you're going to have one. I run at 1680x1050, and there's this awkward empty gray space off to the right of the page because the image isn't wide enough. Not only that, but some of the pages (I'm looking at the Point System page) run over into said gray space. The image should be at least as wide as the text it's supposed to encompass, preferably big enough to give it a comfortable margin.

I'm not sure if I communicated what I was trying to say... you dug my rap?

[Capt Rivera]

Just curious... Can you tell me more about what "Summer Nationals" was, and what you guys did to raise money for it? From your vantage point, how is the booster club working?...

On topic: Can booster club info/events be on the squadron website? I would assume it would need its own and that it would be acceptable that the squadron link to it, but not acceptable for the site to serve both organizations....

Summer Nationals        posted Jan 22, 2010 6:30 AM by David Roberts                      May 14 - 16. A Booster event, fundraiser. BDU bottoms and black tee shirts. Sign up with Lt Porterfield. More info to be announced as event approaches

[Eclipse]

Just as an FYI, if CAP members are participating at all in booster events, they are likely breaking regs.

If the Unit CC or another staffer is coordinating them, they are.