unit website development

[dogboy]

I've been tasked to develop a new unit website. Apparently, there is no template that is to be used.

If you know of a good CAP unit website that I can get ideas from, I would appreciate it if you could post a link.

Thanks

[CadetProgramGuy]

Multiples of us have used GoDaddy or weebly to design ours.

If you are HTML friendly, you can do anything you wish.  For us HTML ignorant, I used weebly.com.  There they have pre-set templates that can be used.  It is also free.

www.dmmcs.weebly.com

For my content, I googled CAP squadrons, and borrowed what I liked.

[PhoenixRisen]

http://sq714.cawg.cap.gov

Here's my squadron website.  Hope it helps with ideas.  I designed it from scratch.

[gistek]

Earthlink still offers a free site to CAP units. You have to request it through National, and I forget the e-mail of the person to ask, but that info should be in the knowledgebase.

Earthlink includes Trellix online site editor which is reasonably flexible and easy to learn. I use it for http://www.squadron304.us

Another extremely good alternative is to start with a blog format, such as Google's Blogger or WordPress. This allows you to add new articles easily to your site and leave the older articles still available.

MOST IMPORTANT:

Be sure to read the CAP internet operations guide, CAPR-110-1. There are a couple of very important do's and don'ts.

• You must have "Civil Air Patrol" somewhere near the top of your website, preferably right underneath the squadron name.
  
• There is a disclaimer that must appear on any page that has links to non-CAP websites.
  
• There are also some limits on advertising. You can have discrete links to companies that support you, and so far there haven't been any problems with using ad-supported free services, but be careful that the products and ads are not objectionable in any way.
  

If you want a calendar, sign up for Google calendars. They allow you to "overlay" other calendars and embed the code on a page in your site. They also allow you to designate additional authorizations so others can add or edit events. These others don't have to have a gmail address, but will have to sign up for a google account using their main e-mail address.

[biomed441]

Freewebs is also a good site host to use. It has templates to use for non-html friendly people.  The free hosting has limitations such as bandwidth and overal site size, but its a good way to start. Or you can use their pay version which gives you much more bandwidth and site size.

[A.Member]

My suggestion is to use the search function.  The topic has been brought up here numerous times and many ideas shared.

[Gunner C]

I believe the NTC will give you free web/storage space, at least they used to.  Contact them.

[sandman]

Hey folks,

With the redesigned official USAF website, it looks like the CAP link is missing again!

v/r