I have set up this new thread in order to assemble everyone's wish list for future developments. A separate thread is to report bugs.

Appearance on this list doesn't guarantee that they will happen but they will be discussed.

Phase two and three are coming along in the later in the year anyway with geo-referenced cruising information and online shopping but we are starting to accumulate some feedback which we will need to consider when we begin the post sailing season web work. Luckily most of us are heading off for a summer of non web based adventures soon so there has to be an intermission!

Things that we already have on that discussion list include:

1. A site search function
2. A possible shift of Port Officer information to the Directories
3. Possible new links to "Forum" and "Join" pages so they can be accessed directly from the home page on hand held devices. Please note this already exists on lap top versions but the software removes clutter when rendering the page for display on smaller screens

4. The possibility of developing a bespoke parallel website to give optimal display on any screen size thus avoiding the above issues of rendering
5. More Add polling and slide show functionality to the Gallery pages
6. Rename the link to the Forum as "Forum" rather than "Cruising Forum" as this is known to have confused several.
7. Presently the small screen rendering process makes it impossible to add an a attachment to a Forum post

So discussion and ideas welcome. Please use this link as whilst away sailing I'm going to struggle to keep abreast of emails and I don't want things to be overlooked or missed.

Simon

We may need to rethink the split of Flying fish between the Open and members Sites. Only the Open site shows FF articles by cruising area. This means that up to date articles by cruising areas are NOT available to members or non members, For instance in FF2016-2 To Brittany with OCC Help and Hospitality Ernie Godshalk page 151 appears in the FF by Articles list, but as one of the two most recent FF Volumes is not on the public site. If you search for related articles to France you get a message Europe W - France.
No online articles meeting these criteria.
So members planning to cruise in Brittany have no access to this article for the first year
I suggest that FF by single files by article are put on the open site - just keep the complete versions restricted to members only.
This move to some of the recent FF files to the public site would be well within the policy authorised by a vote of members at the 2014 AGM:

The following resolution was proposed by myself, seconded by Tony Singer and passed at the 2014 AGM. This action was taken to give instruction from the membership to the Board and Committee in an area where there had been disagreement within the Board and Committee.

"in order to implement the Club's founding objective of Fostering and Encouraging Ocean Cruising, it is agreed as Club Policy that, whereas the club should use its resources primarily for the benefit of its members, where the opportunity exists at zero or low cost to aid the wider world of ocean cruising, it should do so."



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