[DeTomaso] New PCNC Web site

[msm at portata.com]

Efforts are underway to rebuild the POCA web site to provide more
services to the POCA community.  To do so, POCA has brought in new
technologies and tools to develop the site and maintain the content.  As
with any good design and implementation project, the new parts needed a
test mule to make sure that everything works together as intended.  At
the request of the POCA president, the PCNC web master agreed to use the
PCNC web site as the test mule.

The test was successful, and as a result, PCNC now has a new web site.

www.PanteraClubNorCal.com

Though the old PCNC site looked good and had up to date content, the new
site has several advantages. 

* The new site can to be updated directly by PCNC people without
specialized tools or skills.  This removes the web master as the
bottleneck on updates which allows him to spend his time on other things
like making pithy comments on the De Tomaso forum. 

* The Events section now is much more robust and flexible.  There are
more event details, venue information, and maps.  There is on-line event
registration.

* The old club store which had been just a list of products on a web
page is now a real on-line store with catalogues, inventory control,
shopping carts, on-line payments, and other goodies.

* The current PCNC Newsletter as well as the 10 year archive of
Newsletters is on the new site.

* The links in the Links section are updated.  The Contact section is
now visible to only registered and logged-in users to better protest
privacy.

* The PCNC eNews which is currently handled with manual processes will
soon be managed and sent from the new site.

Give the new web site a try today!


Mark McWhinney
PCNC Web master