[SJAAboard] SJAA web page

[Akkana Peck]

Really, what the web page needs most (after correcting major
problems like the ones already pointed out ... adding the schedule
box at the top helps a lot) is some organization. In that long list
of links it's hard to find the things that members or prospective
members would want to look for.

Maybe just organizing them in categories, like this:
http://shallowsky.com/sjaa/sjaa.html

I also re-did the iframe stuff at the top to get rid of all that
extra space below "Weather Cancellation Policy". I wasn't entirely
sure what the point of the iframe was, but I guessed it was to let
people edit the Houge event status without needing to edit the rest
of the page.  If that's the case, does it need to include things
that won't change, like Schedule of Events and Weather Cancellation
Policy?  So I moved those back into the main page, and I used CSS to
make it easier for people to edit the Houge status without knowing
much about HTML (just use <span class="yes">ON</span> or <span
class="no">OFF</span>).

You could also split off most of those links onto separate pages so
the front page wouldn't be so long. But that would require that
somebody think about which links are important enough to need to be
on the front page.

Or you could fiddle with colors and background images to spice
it up a little, like: http://shallowsky.com/sjaa/sjaa2.html

Or leave the background alone (it can be hard to read text
against a background image) but add some pictures of SJAA star
parties and pictures of astro objects taken by SJAA members, like
http://shallowsky.com/sjaa/sjaa3.html (that one may load very
slowly because it's using full-sized images -- I didn't bother
to make local copies of them since it's just an example).

Just some ideas for your consideration. 

Rob Hawley writes:
> We disguise the email addresses with some JavaScript.  It is a
> fairly weak method.

It used to work, but lots of spammers can read JavaScript-disguised
addresses just fine now.

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