[Hidden-tech] posting to hidden tech , web-site rebuild question

[Al Ladd]

Not sure if this is the way to post or not. Please let me know how to 
post if not.

I'm a board member and lessee of the Valley Community Land Trust, a 
small residential and conservation land trust in Franklin County, MA 
--http://vclt.org/ .

Our web site is currently hosted by Wild Apricot, a platform oriented 
towards non-profit membership organizations. It's strength is membership 
management, with auto processing features that would be valuable for an 
organization with many members. We have only a half dozen or so paid 
members, and so member management can be done manually with little 
effort. We'd like to get the vclt.org site on a less costly platform (WA 
is $40/month $432/yr). I've started the job, adapting to a Wordpress 
platform. I have some web experience, having built the site for my 
livelihood-producing woodworking business, and for the Crafts of Colrain 
--  http://craftsofcolrain.com/ (yearly open studio event) , which I'm a 
member of. I built and maintain these with Expression Web. I thought for 
the new vclt.org platform Wordpress might be easiest to let others 
takeover down the road, and I might even be able to adapt membership 
management plugins so we'd not lose any functionality from the Wild 
Apricot platform, but manual membership management would be fine for at 
least  a few years . We do need to password protect some content to 
members only, and allow public access to the rest. Wordpress seems to 
allow this easily.

I'd like confirmation  of my plan for building here: 
http://stage.alladd.com/wp/   , on a "stage" appended to my woodworking 
site, and then relabeling when ready to make the change. The different 
url structure of Wordpress vs. a more conventional structure as built 
with Expression Web , and Wild Apricots  more drag and drop build 
platform leave me uncertain I can easily convert the stage site to a 
live one, and so I want to be sure I'm on the right path before I go too 
far. Any wisdom form the experience of this community would be much 
appreciated! Thanks!

Al Ladd, Colrain




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