Are there any big advantages to building your public site on Sing? We are doing an eval now, and a member has offered to pay for a year if we decide to use it, but our current web budget is $0, and at any point in the future we may have drop the program. I'm afraid of losing the paltry web presence we have if that happens. Is there any advantage over simply placing a member link to Sing on our current page?
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Perhaps a link to your current site will help people comment.
This is our site built with Groupanizer
www.sing4fun.ca
It may look very simple but it is more professional looking than what we had.
Ian Harrop
Western Hospitality Singers www.sing4fun.ca
Alberta Sport Parachuting Association www.aspa.ca
ian.harrop@live.com
My chorus started with Groupanizer as a members-only site and then switched our public site to it about 6 months later. It has worked out very well for us for several reasons. We are now saving about $10 per month that we were paying for web hosting at the public site. This helps to offset the cost of the Groupanizer service.
Our old site was built on a local computer and then uploaded via FTP to the hosting site. This meant that all changes had to go through one (overworked) person and the site didn't always get updated in a timely fashion. With Groupanizer as the public site, all of the edits are done via the web, so we can even do updates by smartphone. The result is that our site has more content than before and it is always up to date. Its also better looking than the old site.
We are also benefitting from the sharing of data between the member site and the public site. Things like calendars entries don't need to be updated in two places.
Overall, Groupanizer has worked out very well as a public site. If you would like to see what we've done, follow the link in my signature.
Tom Nisbet
Webmaster - Heart of Maryland Chorus
www.HeartOfMaryland.org
tom27@HeartOfMaryland.org
Hey Tom,
Side question - the calendar you have that shows events on your public site... is that all the events you have, or is it filtered to show certain ones (eg, 'public' ones)?
Your site looks great... I want to get one sorted for my guys over Christmas, so might be asking a few more questions of you, if you don't mind.
Antony Currington
Musical Director :: Harbour Capital Chorus
Email :: acurrington@paradise.net.nz
Wellington, New Zealand
My public site calendar is actually a separate calendar created using a custom content type and view. I wanted the public-facing calendar to be strictly for promotion and the Groupanizer calendar to have the attendance and the when to arrive, what to wear, and what to sing information. It sounds like it would be a burden to maintain two calendars, but it has worked out very well. Each entry on the public calendar creates a new web page, and most of the events would have needed a promotional page anyway. Also, we tend to do many of the same events year after year, so I can simply change the date and re-use the calendar entry.
I'm happy to answer any questions I can about your site. The process can be daunting at first, but once you are over the learning curve it is easy to keep your site updated.
Tom Nisbet
Webmaster - Heart of Maryland Chorus
www.HeartOfMaryland.org
tom27@HeartOfMaryland.org
Been away...must have forgotten to follow thi thread. Anyway, the site we have is being hosted for free, and any link would be useless as I am going to pay a developer to completely rebuild the site from scratch. Since our current server doesnt have drupal installed, and I have nobody in the chorus savvy enough to install and maintain it, If I have her build it on Sing! we will lose much of that devel investment if we decide in a year that Sing! Isn't working out for us.
OTOH, if we built a stand alone site and Sing! becomes our preferred tool and maintaining a second site becomes burdensome - i.e. if we can't embed the Sing! objects via links on our stanalone site , we're in the same boat.
Maybe the next question is can you embed Sing! objects in another site?
Jordan Truesdell
VP - Music & Performance
Virginia Gentlemen
Roanoke, Virginia
You can put link to your sing site on another site, but that's it. How much are you paying a develipoer to rebuild your exisiting site.? what does your ecisting site look like?. How about a link?
What if you used those $$$ towards Groupnaizer and put the effort in to building your own site there,
Ian Harrop
Western Hospitality Singers www.sing4fun.ca
Alberta Sport Parachuting Association www.aspa.ca
ian.harrop@live.com
I'd like to pipe up here and say that the recent upgrades will make it much easier to build a public site on top of Sing! (or switch them up frequently if you want). Also if you have a web site you like, moving it over to Sing only requires you to make a Drupal theme out of it. This isn't too difficult - certainly not as hard as building the new web site in the first place.
T