Posted by GregSeaHawk on
URL: https://forum.seahawk17.org.uk/WANTED-New-Webmaster-tp4025475p4025478.html

Hi Perry,

I wouldn't say anyone was "super active" on the forum, but you are a long standing SeaHawk owner and consistent contributor and hearing that you're an IT man means that you pass the bar for people I'd trust to hold the login credentials for the site and admin status on the forum.

If nothing more, you could act as custodian, pending transfer to someone else, should I cease to respond to emails. That would give you the ability to download the main site and obtain a backup of the forum content to protect against the site going off-line unexpectedly.

Yes, currently, it is "my site", but I am over-stretched with the various sites I maintain, not to mention my band, a demented sister-in-law to help care for, a house move to complete, and without the motivation of continuing ownership of a SeaHawk it is one site that I plan to stop maintaining. There are others without an obvious audience, that I am happy to let expire.

Yes, I have reached the stage where I "actually don’t want to" maintain it. However, because it clearly has an audience, my plan is to endeavour to pass the domain, site and forum to someone else. I strongly suspect that anyone taking over the domain would want to rebuild the site from scratch using WordPress or some such package with which they are familiar. I'm not precious about that. It's just as much as possible of the content that I'd like to see preserved.

I'm just a self-taught, hobbyist web designer, with no formal training. The main site is entirely hand coded. Although self-taught I consider myself competent in HTML and CSS, but my use of JavaScript is limited to inserting very small segments of code to obscure email addresses and my understanding of PHP is limited to using a number of "includes" for the headers, footers, and main navigation menu code.

The forum is a separately hosted package with limited options compared with many of the more popular open source forum packages. I've made registration more complicated than it need to be as a way of defeating spammers, not that we seem to plagued by them. (In recent years its been downgraded and has broken some of my customisations hence, for example, the unplanned by me, appearance of the purple badges indicating a user's status. I've never made the time to find out how to remove them.)

The domain registration expires on 29 March 2025, I'd like to consider that a deadline, but it's still set to auto-renew at the moment.