Here's an article about the website as written in the Spring 2009 'The Runner Mumbles': Website Article 4-09.doc (43.00 kb).
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Here’s a quick roadmap of website features:
Pages left sidebar:
- Home tab: Returns back to the Home page. Also includes weblinks to news articles about the club...mostly good.
- Weekly Club Runs: Descriptions of all the weekly scheduled club runs. The link ‘Club Run Route maps & directions’ at the bottom list all the club runs with route maps, descriptions, and meeting locations.
- Club Announcements: Posting for upcoming club events or general announcements.
- The Runner Mumbles: Access to current and archived club newsletters ‘The Runner Mumbles’.
- Featured Races: ESR has a monthly featured race that we encourage members to participate in if they want to see a familiar face in the crowd.
- Race Results: Description of how and where club members can post their race results. These results will be cut and pasted for general viewing in the quarterly newsletter ‘The Runner Mumbles’.
- Cross Country Team: Description and FAQ about the club’s Cross Country Team. All members are invited to join. Races are available to participate in regardless of your pace.
- ESR Fall 5K Classic: Information about the club's fall Cross Country 5K race at Lake Sammamish State Park.
- Track & Field Team: Description and FAQ about the club’s Track and Field Team. All members are invited to join. Team workouts on Wednesday with the Wednesday Night Track group.
- Mt. Si Relay & Ultra Runs: Provides details about the club sponsored ‘Mt. Si Relay and Ultra Runs’ that takes place in mid April. We encourage all members to volunteer or run.
- Membership tab: Here’s where you’ll find a wealth of information about the ESR including ‘How to Join’, ‘Benefits’ to being a members, ‘ESRewards’ (redeemable coupons given to members receive when volunteering for club supported races), ‘Volunteering’ and ‘Find a Running Partner/Relay Team Member’.
- Club Apparel: Provides information on costs and how to purchase 'Eastside Runners' branded clothing from Brooks.
- Contacts: This is where to look if you want to reach someone on the ESR board, committee member, race coordinators, weekly run leaders, newsletter staff, club apparel coordinator or website team.
- Online Networking: Information about online networking with your fellow club members.
- Running Humor: A funny look at running.
- Other Links: Misc. list of other running related websites.
- Website Help/FAQ: Hopefully helpful information on how to navigate this website. Let us know how we can improve the site or this 'Help' webpage.
Categories left sidebar: When someone posts a new blog they select one or more categories that best describes the topic they have written about. When you select a category all articles that were tagged with that category will be listed.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) of each category to automatically receive new and updated blogs in your favorite email client (e.g. outlook and outlook express). To subscribe to a category click on the orange icon next to category and select “subscribe to this feed” link on the following page.
Eventually members will be able to create blog entries to some of these categories to share with others that are subscribed or manually view the feed. Currently the ability to create blogs is only activated for a few site managers. All members can add comments to existing blogs. When the website has been test driven a little longer and some kinks are worked out, that feature will be activated. In the meantime if you wish to post something, submit it via the ‘Contact ESR’ tab along the top bar.
Archive left sidebar: Archived list of blog entries, filtered by month.
Recent posts left sidebar: Lists of blog entries sorted with the most recent posted on the top.
Keywords right sidebar: Similar to Categories, an author can select one or more “Keyword” that describes their blog. The more a particular keyword is used the larger the word becomes in the keyword section.
Calender right sidebar: Interactive calendar with club events hyperlinked to the dates. For example, click on any Saturday and the Saturday Morning club run for that day will appear.
Blogroll right sidebar: Misc. non-club related web feeds. These are updated every hour. Please let us know if you have any feed you would like us to add
Search: In the upper right hand corner there is a search textbox. You can type a word or phrase into the search box and click Search to return a listing of all pages and articles containing the phrase you entered. For example, searching for “Mercer” returns the “Mercer Slough” and “Mercer Island” Saturday morning runs.
If you have questions or are having difficulty with the site please click the "Contact ESR" button at the top of the site and let us know! We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks,
ESR Webteam