Website Setup Overview

Our organization's domain is "contracola.org", and http://www.contracola.org/ links to our website.  In the interest of using free resources as much as possible while allowing the board members to easily contribute, we have reorganized our web setup, basing it mostly on a Google account, as outlined in this brief overview.

Our organization's Google account name is "contracola". The contracola password is not to be shared outside the COTMD Board and is changed periodically.

The Google account is used to access a number of services:

• GMail (email) - mail.google.com or http://www.google.com/
  
• Blogger (replacing former website) - contracola.blogspot.com (schedule, directions, dance info, dance announcements) and cotmdboard.blogspot.com (bylaws, minutes, board-related stuff) - these will eventually be named as subdomains of contracola.org
• Google Calendar (calendar) - accessible after logging into Google
• Google Docs (documents) - accessible after logging into Google
• Picasa Web Albums (photos) - accessible after logging into Google
• Google Groups (mailing list) - accessible after logging into Google

When another third-party service provider is involved, we set up a similarly-named account. And example is the service provider for our "Contact Us" form:

• Kontractr (contact form) - kontactr.com

There are/will be separate articles on how we use these various services.