SoSLUG website improvements.

Hello everyone.

This short post is to tell you about what we are doing at present to attempt to improve your experience when using this site.

It has always been a desire of SoSLUG members to offer useful, coherent information, to anyone who comes to visit us, whether in person, (and we're always delighted to welcome visitors on a Monday evening) or via this site.

One of the things regular visitors may notice, is a complete revamp of the menu system. This is a major undertaking that will probably last for several months as there are several hundred articles that need to be categorised and placed into their respective homes. The first step is to get them categorised and subsequently, we anticipate more changes to refine the system further. So please don't be surprised to find articles moving position. Any links into our site from Google for example, should be unaffected, and of course, you can still use the search function to find what you are looking for.

The SoSLUG web site is actually two sites, the menu item, Web design, is simply a link which will take you to this second site. To facilitate the proposed changes, this portion of the site is being used as a test bed for the intended changes. Take a few moments and compare the look and feelof the two sites and tell us what you think. We would welcome any constructive comments to make this site one of the best in the country, if not eventually in the world, for plain language Linux information.

We thank you for your patience while these changes are taking place. If you do experience any problems such as a broken link, it would be really helpful if you could tell us, so we can fix it - thank you!

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Introduction

Thank you for your comments http://wiki.soslug.org/wiki/find_us We are located SoSLUG TAP (Old Water Works) North Road Southend on Sea Essex SS0 7AB Every Monday @ 8pm til late Contact No: 01702 668666 ( Please leave your message and phone number on which you can be contacted ) Enquiries: linux at soslug.org Sorry you are experiencing some confusion I will express your concern to our developers presently. Regards Derek Shaw

Introduction and some website observations

Hi guys, I was googling about in an idle moment and decided to look for a local LUG and I found you! My name is Stephen and I live in Chelmsford. I have been using Linux (openSuse) for about three years but am not at all expert. I was looking for some local Tuxers to have a beer with and maybe share some useful info etc. Now; I don't wish in my introduction post to be a grumpy complainer, but, I would not be able to hide it for long so I might as well 'come out' right away with some first impressions. The front page http://wiki.soslug.org/ Of 1000 people who come to this sit from Google or any other search engine, 999 will have a good knowledge of what Linux and OSS is and why. The other one will have got there by mistake. What they will not know is what and who SoSlug is and what it does, if they meet up, how often, and where. Nowhere on the site could I find any "Contact us" or "Join us" info or welcome. Trawling through some articles the occasional scrap comes up "Mondays" from one page "Mediashed" from another. No address, time etc etc. For example, from this page: [quote] It has always been a desire of SoSLUG members to offer useful, coherent information, to anyone who comes to visit us, whether in person, (and we're always delighted to welcome visitors on a Monday evening) or via this site.[/quote] Anyway, enough for now, I look forward to meeting you all and having a good moan about something else, Sincerely, Mr Grumpy, aka Wakou aka Stephen.

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