Many years ago, I inherited the first Woodbridge Cuising Club website. Woodbridge Cruising Club is one of the most respected members only yacht clubs on the East Coast, being nearly unique in that it is truly independent and not specifically tied to a marina.
The first ‘replacement site’ created was intended to be reasonably similar to it’s predecessor which couldn’t be easily edited by anyone, requiring the user to make alterations directly to the SQL database – Not very pretty. I built a site using Adobe Dreamweaver and Contribute which provided a near WYSIWYG editing interface which functioned reasonably well for several years.
With WordPress moving from the worlds best blogging tool to the worlds most successful content management system (CMS) the additional functionality offered was something I couldn’t fail to present to the WCC committee as an excellent way to stay technologically up-to-date. They agreed to the update and woodbridgecruisingclub.org MK III was launched.
This website features full CMS using a modified premium theme and provides all the benefits of WordPress such as excellent SEO and also a membership system allowing members to view premium content such as their newsletters whilst still offering the casual visitor a wealth of valuable content. A calender system has also been used which allows a categorised calendar to be shown, allowing the user to see for example only social engagements or bar rotas.