| We have great plans for the MAX web site,
including features to automate some of the club's functions. Future plans include a database of events to assist the event
champions in their duties, and an opt-in membership database where MAX
members can place their pictures and profile, all online. Many of the
tasks to keep MAXonline running do not require programming skills, so if
you're interested in helping with MAXonline, let us know! Some skills
needed are e-mail list maintenance, event liaison, html and database
coding, and photo coordinator. We are now using Frontpage, which is
easy to use, so if you'd like to learn it along with us, join in!
Contact the MAXonline
webmaster. |
| MAXonline was built using Microsoft
FrontPage and published on the Web in November 1996. It retained its
original design in most aspects for two years, and constantly had
feature pages added and removed as various MAX events became the focus
of attention. One of our first web pages looked
like this back in December
1996. Many of MAXonline's web pages have been archived on the
WayBackMachine at www.archive.org.
In January 1998, FrontPage98 became the authoring tool, and all pages
received an update, along with many hand-coding tweaks of the HTML to
improve loading time. In March of 1999, Visual InterDev became the
authoring tool to facilitate a complete redesign of the site. At that
time, there was a physical relocation of the site to Via Net.Works
(formerly IMConline) in Atlanta.
In October of 1999, we switched to using Frontpage 2000. After a two
year search for a reasonable ecommerce solution, we implemented a system
in February 2001 containing many components. AdminiShare handled the merchant account, and our web site
passes shopping cart items via forms through a secure server to VeriSign.
This allowed us to offer online credit card payments for MAX events,
and was well accepted by our members.
Year 2002 found us using FrontPage 2002 which has many user
enhancements. In March 2002, we switched our web hosting to Alameda
Hosting, a local Alameda company, although their server is in Illinois.
And, we started using Acteva so MAX members and guests can pay online
for MAX events. In 2004, we moved our web hosting to GoDaddy, a firm
with a strange name but economical and good support. With our site now
on a Windows server, we will be able to use more features of ASP and
Microsoft online databases. FrontPage 2003, while having a few bugs, has
some great features which are employed by the three people maintaining
our web site. |
