My good ol' club Jong Nederland has a new site, based on the Mambo Open Source (MOS) CMS. The old site was based on home-brew PHP, and desperately needed a change.
It looks like they have the basic functionality up and running in MOS, but in my opinion they need to work a little bit more on the design. I am sure that they will fix it, since it already looks better than this morning. Of course the horrible “Designed for Internet Explorer” disclaimer has to go!!!
Further tips to make the site better:
- Knowing the amount of events Jong Nederland has, it would be better to present an event list instead of a calendar;
- Mambo has a nice option to create friendly URL's, which only needs some changes to the
.htaccessfile; - The section pages should be more descriptive and at least contain links to the sub-sections to make browsing easier. I had to look twice before I noticed the extra options in the menu;
- Jong Nederland has a huge collection of drawings and logo's, but these are not used at all in the articles. I want Kleppie and Molly Mol!!!
As a regular contributor to the old guestbook, I need to browse my old JN stuff to find my membership number, so I can access the new forum.
