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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62148

Aussie Darrell
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Hi there,

Free Toast Host is tops!!!

I was wondering if there's any differences between creating a club site and a district site. I've set up a number of club sites, but I was wondering if district sites have e.g. larger data storage, you can create more tabs etc.

Is it possible to 'test'/create a dummy site without it being live?

I'd appreciate any links to documentation on this subject.

Thanks for your help.

Darrell.

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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62149

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Actually, the district websites are feature subset of the club websites. (scaled down)

The do not include the dues or agenda modules, for example.

The focus is different/ The code is the same, it is just disabled in some ways for district websites.

I have considered implementing district specific functionality (e.g. generate club alignment chart and/or contest organizer feature), but there are many more club websites than district websites, so the club flavor gets the majority of my efforts and time.

Regards,

Steve James, DTM
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Officer Emeritus, Mindful Communicators (Club 1966, District 52) A President's Distinguished Club for each of the last 10 years.

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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62150

Aussie Darrell Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 8 Thank you received: 3	Thanks Steve. I know there's a limit of characters per page/text box (which is fine) . I'm thinking a district website may need dozens of forms, or theoretically up to a hundred that might be available for download. e.g. contest scripts, etc. They would likely be pdf or word docs. Not very large. Would that number of downloadable forms cause a problem?
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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62151

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There are some advanced tricks that can be employed w/ FTH websites--not used so much w/ club websites, but are definitely used w/ district websites.

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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62152

Aussie Darrell Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 8 Thank you received: 3	Oh, and finally, is there a site I can 'test' with or something to try out functionality?
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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62153

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Well, take a look at the following for starters... These are real district websites. Pay attention to the advanced techniques used.

d16.toastmastersdistricts.org/
d22.toastmastersdistricts.org/
tmd29.org/
d33.toastmastersdistricts.org/

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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62166

Aussie Darrell Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 8 Thank you received: 3	Hey Steve, I'm super impressed by those. I'll have a chat to our district leaders and see if we can consider using freetoasthost next year. Darrell.
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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62190

Brian Away Administrator Posts: 11647 Thank you received: 3880	FTH is not a file repository, there are better solution out there for that. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62196

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Brian wrote:
FTH is not a file repository, there are better solution out there for that.

I do not think that Darrell is looking for a file repository.

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Creating a district website 7 years 3 weeks ago #62204

Aussie Darrell Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 8 Thank you received: 3	Yes, certainly not a huge upload of files. I'm just thinking of e.g. 20 or 30 words/pdf documents that can be downloaded for contests etc. The following user(s) said Thank You: SteveTheTechie
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