volock - 18-12-2015 at 12:50 PM
As I've decided to finally move forward with something I've been considering, and want to try and give back/get involved with NAPKA some, I want to
get some feedback/opinions from members here (regardless of NAPKA membership), and see what people want/think is missing.
NAPKA Website
What do you like about the current website?
What do you not like about the current website?
What features or additions would you like to see?
Other Resources
What do you often use online for kiting (outside the forums)?
What do you wish you had to use online and is not available?
How do you deal with info you love and may lost from links becoming dead, or sites disappearing?
My Own Thoughts and Opinions
I'm going to go ahead and include these here, to help give people a starting point for possibilities, and provide some possible ideas, so that it
might spark ideas for others.
Profiles: It'd be nice to have a more fully fleshed out profile, with the ability to link to your other profiles on forums,
edit what personal information is shown, include fuller information you might want to have about your kiting
Wiki: It'd be nice to have the resources buried across the many forums more centrally located (and backed up). Think of all the sites we've
lost/businesses that closed, who had awesome info pages, that we have very hard/limited access to (ie internetarchive backup). I think a wiki would be
among the best way to do this. I'd remove the restriction on some opinions/writing style, as to make it more useful. An easy example is there's about
5 different ways to wrap up line on/from/with handles. Unless you've seen someone use one of them or you search the forums (and some of these are
still hard to find), you'd never know. The other part of this I'd like to implement is kite specific info pages. On newer kites, I/it could be setup
to auto pull listings from manufacturer pages, to at least generate year released, AR, sizes produced in, color schemes, etc... Then people could
add/edit if they know of mods for the kite (Bridle, Sewing (see old arcs), Peak/Peak2 tip tuck fixes, etc... Reference section on articles would link
back to sources (or forum threads). If a wiki was setup and did exist, would you use it? Would you help edit/add to it?
Map: Auto-generate from locations listed in wiki (or a database). Make it if you click a spot you get the forecast, (maybe fliers who have it
listed in their profile), etc... Plenty of these exist for kitesurfing, but not so much for land based activites.
Event Pages directly integrated for easy info/registration
Note: I cleared posting this with Morrie Williams (the current website manager), so don't want anyone to think I'm intentionally or
otherwise stepping on toes. Whether or not any of this gets changed or happens depends a lot on what people state wanting or their opinion
shehatesmyhobbies - 18-12-2015 at 07:26 PM
Liking the ideas you have and the desire to help.
I'm in no way a computer guru, making a simple navigation, information area with a search engine would be awesome to have within the NAPKA website.