2011 leadership summit web hosting presentation
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SLA’s New Wordpress Web Hosting for Units
Daniel P. Lee, Director 2009-2011
@yankeeincanada
“Operation Vitality”
“a healthy capacity for vigorous activity”
Five Objectives
1. Provide a stable and modern website hosting service to all chapters, divisions, and caucuses;
2. Make the service affordable and cost effective for the Association;
3. Design a brand compliant template for all units;
4. Promote a common content management system we can all use, understand and build upon by developing our own tools; and
5. Rebuild SLA's webmaster community.
Our Past
Our Future
The SLA Theme for Wordpress
SLA Theme
• Two navigation menus
• “Widgetized” sidebar• Optional ad spaces• Optional slider and
video player module for the homepage
• 1-column or 2-column layout
• 8 color schemes• Search engine
optimization tool• Google Analytics and
Feedburner• Designed to be
modern, clean and brand compliant
Our Future
The New Web Hosting Package
HostGator
• Award Winning Support– 24/7/365 Technical Support via Phone, Live Chat, and
Ticket System– Automatic Weekly Off-Site Data Backups– 24/7/365 Server Monitoring– Online Support Portal with over 500+ Video Tutorials and
680+ Help Articles– HostGator Community Forum Access
• Green Web Hosting– Texas Wind Energy helps offset server emissions– Climate Friendly and Wind Powered– Purchase certified Renewable Energy Credits
Wordpress
• Used by over 29 million people
• Full W3C standards compliance
• Posts• Pages• Links• Themes
• Cross-blog communication tools
• Comments• Spam protection• Full user registration• Password Protection• Easy Importing• Workflow (drafts, etc.)
and Multiple authors
Hosting Features
• SLA Theme included
• Unlimited Email Accounts, Mail Forwards, and Email Aliases
• Unlimited MySQL Databases (with phpMyAdmin) and FTP
• Easy to Use and Flexible Control Panel
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee!
Advanced Features
• Programming Languages: CGI, Fast CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, SSI
• Programming Modules: Curl, CPAN, GD Library, Image Magick
• System Management: SSH Access and Cron Job Scheduling
Cost?Yep!
$40 per year!
The Team
• Amy Buckland• Michelle Dollinger• Nicole Engard• Britta Jessen
Charbonneau• Kendra Levine• Heather Ritchie• Margaret Smith
• Quan Logan• Linda Broussard• Jeff Leach
The Plan
• Nov-Jan: Early Adopters
• Jan-Mar: “2nd Phasers” (Sign up!)
• Mar-Dec: Everyone else!
• Goal: All units converted by Dec 2011
Early Adopters
• Florida & Caribbean• Illinois• New York• Oregon• Philadelphia• Silicon Valley• Toronto• Washington, DC• Western Canada
• Academic
• Business and Finance
• Competitive Intelligence
• Leadership and Management Division
• Legal
• Science-Technology
• Transportation
Live Demo
Cross your fingers!
Questions?
Daniel P. Lee, Director 2009-2011
danielplee@sympatico.ca
@yankeeincanada
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