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| Posted: Sun May 17th, 2020 12:39 am |
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Jamie Horner Administrator
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Hello Fans of fans, Our AFCA President, Annie and the Board of Directors have asked me to put together a roadmap of the plans for updating the AFCA (fancollectors) Website and to share them with all of you. First things first, the name of the Association is not changing. We are all fan collectors of some sort and it was thought best to stick with what is familiar to most and just grow our Association from there. Along with that, our domain name (Web address) will not be changing. We unfortunately share our initialism (AFCA) with the (probably much less well known) American Football Coaches Association, so there will unlikely be a time that we are ever able to purchase AFCA.org. We will be sticking with fancollectors.org for the foreseeable future. Now with those decisions finalized, it’s on to branding ourselves with a little more consistency than we currently demonstrate. Our first item on the agenda will be logo creation. Some consistency is needed throughout the organization and that consistency will begin with the creation of our new logo. The branding process has already begun and all materials will be presented to the members of the Association upon approval from the Board. We have realized the need to be more inclusive of the many different types of fan collectors out there and the branding is being planned around that goal. Along with the branding, we all realize that it’s time to start making some changes to the current look, structure and content of the Website. The structure of our branding will be guiding the new look for the site. Our goal is to no longer have the site remain only desktop, laptop or tablet friendly, but to make it very mobile friendly as well. This means an entire rewriting of the code that is the current structure for the site. This will not be a one weekend or overnight accomplishment. The initial plan is to rewrite the areas of the site that are accessible to both members and non-members (currently, the areas to which no passwords are needed to gain access). This is not something that can be done without a lot of discussion, planning and forethought. Please bear with us as we continue to figure out exactly what is best for all in order to draw more traffic to the site and make it much more easy to navigate and search. Once the “all-access” end of the Website has been completed, we will connect that to the current forum and then start to look at how we might improve the forum to be a little more “new-user” and mobile friendly. As a final phase, we will be rebuilding the forum and attaching that to the rebuilt “all-access” part of the site. This will likely be the part of the process that will be the most time intensive. Just remember, this is all being done to make our Association, more attractive, easier to navigate for information, and much more mobile friendly for all. Approximately 51% of people worldwide currently only access the internet via their smartphone. It is estimated that within the next 4 years, the number will increase to 73%. I think we need to be ready for that. None of this will happen overnight and it is currently being planned in stages that we hope will be the least disruptive to all. If you have any questions or suggestions, please submit those to the Board of Directors for answers or consideration.
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| Posted: Sun May 17th, 2020 02:17 am |
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George Durbin AFCA Member 
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Hi Jamie! Thnx for the update! Geo...
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| Posted: Sun May 17th, 2020 08:15 pm |
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Steve Sherwood AFCA Member 
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I appreciate the work you are doing. Thank you.
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| Posted: Sun May 17th, 2020 08:23 pm |
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Steve Butler AFCA Member 
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Thank you for keeping us aware of what’s going on and your efforts are greatly appreciated.
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| Posted: Fri May 22nd, 2020 09:31 pm |
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David Allen AFCA Member
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Jamie, thanks for the information and for the work you are doing on the website!
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| Posted: Sat May 23rd, 2020 12:01 pm |
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Mel Lagarde AFCA Member 
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Jamie Thank you for the update. Mel
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| Posted: Tue May 26th, 2020 05:02 pm |
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Chris A. Campbell AFCA Member 
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Jamie, Something worth mentioning... When I signed up and used my real name there was already a prior Chris Campbell so had to add an initial. Would imagine that I was not the first person to run into this and as new members join they may find themselves backing out when they cant use their name due to another's prior registration. May be an area to look into going forward.
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| Posted: Thu May 28th, 2020 03:54 am |
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David A Cherry AFCA Member 
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thanks Jamie ....Looking forward to seeing the newer format, I agree ..slow incremental changes are best... Last edited on Mon Aug 10th, 2020 03:38 am by David A Cherry |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11th, 2020 02:30 pm |
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Gary Buchanan AFCA Member
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Thank you for your work and effort.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16th, 2020 10:56 am |
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James Pinette AFCA Member
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thanks jamie
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17th, 2020 10:32 pm |
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Steve Cunningham Administrator 
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You volunteers are going to have to work harder! Don’t forget to use the AFCA Board Jet. Thanks for all your hard work!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27th, 2020 01:21 am |
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David Hoatson AFCA Member 
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When searching for members, it’s silly to have them sorted by first name. Being mostly white people, there are like 100 people named Tom.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27th, 2020 02:00 am |
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Don Tener AFCA Member 
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David Hoatson wrote: When searching for members, it’s silly to have them sorted by first name. Being mostly white people, there are like 100 people named Tom.Yes I agree. I will never understand why it is not alphabetical by last name.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16th, 2020 12:38 am |
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Richard Daugird AFCA Member 
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Sounds good, anything I can do to help?
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