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