Subud California at Palo Alto launched a glamorous new website in April (http://paloalto.subudcalifornia.org ) , rich with many new features such as an online Paypal donation button, a member page, with links to websites of members, and a collection of member art. Over time, this can expand to include information about art, activities or enterprises from other Palo Alto members. There is also a renter community page, showcasing the use of the hall for music, yoga, movement, meditation and other spiritual practices. There are also plans to create a mirror site with the Spanish translation. Lianne Card, Stephanie Ferreira, Naomi Onaga and Elizabeth Trudell, were members of the web team that designed, wrote content and built site, together with the local committee, and Elizabeth Baskin has taken over as web master leading the web team.
Leonard Robel at Subud California at Marin has also taken over as webmaster, and is in the process of creating a beautiful redesign of the center’s website. The website is in the final stages of setting up the donation page before it is launched. Check http://marin.subudcalifornia.org soon for the new website.
The two websites were built on Weebly, a web building tool that makes it easy to create a clean, contemporary design, without knowledge of html or programming languages. This makes it much easier for members of centers to add content and modify the website over time. Weebly designs also adapt to mobile devices easily, and has good search engine optimization. Weebly had been chosen by Palo Alto and Marin, based on the needs of the centers and after comparison of various web building systems.
Both sites use new subdomains of the Subudcalifornia.org domain (e.g, marin.subudcalifornia.org), which the region has provided as a free service to the centers.
Subud California at Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and Arcata have also expressed interest in working with the regional web team to revamp or create new websites, and will be working with local webmasters including Leo Horthy and Michael O’Connor (Los Angeles) and Derek Choice (San Diego) and other members of local committees.
The regional web/tech team includes Mike Scirocco, Henry Couden, Naomi Onaga, and Andrew Morgan, as well as Mathias Dussain and Jeff Stone, with Philip Lindstrom and Lucas Hess.
For more information, or if your center is interested in revising or creating a website, contact Naomi at communications.subudca at gmail.com