Website Committee Recommendations

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

• Timely and accurate information

• Attract new members (and keep old ones)

• Look clean, simple, consistent, and nautical!

• Easy access to info that our members and others want

• Easy updating w/o HTML knowledge

• Flexibility in architecture to allow evolutionary changes

CONTENTS AND FEATURES

Phase One

• Home page w/Mission Statement (new photos bi-monthly)

• Calendar of upcoming events page

• Join page (RW membership benefits and form)

• About page

• Contact page

Phase Two

• Current happenings in shop/Boatshop space page (fees/availability/etc.)

• Links Page (WBF, CWB, WB, Coots, NWSWB, Mother of…, Urban Hardwood Recovery, Rose City Lumber, Crosscut Lumber, TAP Plastics, Woodcrafters, rebuilding Center, ReStore, Sexton’s Chandlery, Columbia River Marine Exchange, Pier 99/Marineland, Columbia Riverkeeper, Willamette Riverskeeper, Tualatin Riverkeeper, Edensaw Lumber, Flounder Bay Lumber, Fisheries Supply, etc.)

• Moorage/dockage page

Phase Three and Beyond

• Livery page (availability and rates)

• Updated photos and descriptions of projects underway

• Post for member items for sale/wanted

• Photo essay of cool RW events and projects

• Forum for boatbuilding questions

• RW history page

• Policies and procedures

• Members only page

• Ferry page

• Green boating page

• Board only page (minutes/issues/etc.)

The 2007 Portland Wooden Boat Show

The 2007 Portland Wooden boat Show, held at the RiversWest shop at Pier 99 was a great success. We had lots of boats, both on the water and on land. The children's boatbuiding tent was a major attraction, and many of the children as well as their parents, enjoyed sightseeing on the river in the Hall Templeton.