Interim site live today

Hello ...
I havent had time to post lately and much has happened.
We had another marketing meeting at the Rec department on april 18th, friday.
It was a very helpful meeting, where we discussed fund raising, goals, promotional efforts andof course the website. The need to launch a interim site was evident when we discussed placing ads in Arts Magazines and guides by May for the summer season. I will also need to send the link out to online tour/travel sites and arts organizations. I was dreading this at first as I would really like to have a site created with joomla ....but as with many "real" projects the timeline cannot be changed. I also have a lot of cleaning up to do on the site I created in class last trimester. I would like to create one template for the interior pages and one css document. I will be trying to do this soon.

For now if you would like to see it visit - www.rutlandyouththeatre.org

I bought a book last week to begin to teach myself Joomla - just in case!
the book is Joomla! A user's guide - building a successful joomla!powered website
by Barrie M. North.
So far it is an easy understandable read and joomla make s a lot of sense. I was originally concerned about the way search engines would handle joomla pages...but the books explains this in one of the later chapters. but I am jumping ahead to learn more about this.

other books I am currently reading -

Insider SEO & PPC - How to get your website to the top of the search engines
by Andreas Ramos and Stephanie Cota

Search engine visibility - 2nd edition - Shari Thurow

Actionable Web Analytics - Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions
Jason Burby, Shane Atchison

I am finding this information about SEO and SEM really interesting! I wish we had some classes in this at school. I would love to do some work with this...I hope to implement as much as I can into the RYT site.

more later...

Capstone component map

Project management - 50%
Conceptual web design - 20%
Web standards - 10%
Legal - 10%
Marketing - 10%

Marketing Meeting

Friday morning I met with 2 of my project sponsors for a marketing meeting at the Rec. dept.
At the meeting I met Anne Blake who is the new marketing Director for the Rec. Dept. and who will be helping us with marketing, fundraising and promotional efforts. Also in attendance was Randi Cohen who is a volunteer with RYT and creates all of the show posters and flyers.
Much of our meeting was centered around current and future fund raising efforts.
Some new ideas were discussed as well as making adjustments to the current amount and levels of contribution.

I gave a brief description of my capstone project and the status and timeline. Everyone is very excited about having a new website and promotional tool.

I would like to find a web host for the interim website as there is an urgent need to put something up on the internet now!
I hope to do this in the next week or two.