Freemasons

When is the Grand Lodge website being updated?

I have had numerous enquiries from Lodge members all over Wellington as to when this will be updated and the lack of information on the website.

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Hadyn Nicholls PM
Homewood Lodge 447
Recruitment & Publicity Officer
http://www.homewood-lodge.net.nz
Wellington District Education Officer

Hi, thanks for your query.

The lodge website gets updated daily.
Mostly things behind the scenes ready for conversion of the existing microsoft access membership database to a web based solution.
This will enable lodge secretaries / members greater access to their membership information.
Also the ability to be able to submit changes to their details.

As to the lack of info, some specific examples would be really handy!

Thanks again
Regards
Jeremie Ryan (webmaster)

I was referring to the database information, sorry about that, just lots of Lodge guys appear to be unhappy about this having not been completed

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Hadyn Nicholls PM
Homewood Lodge 447
Recruitment & Publicity Officer
http://www.homewood-lodge.net.nz
Wellington District Education Officer

I know of of one request for a change in information on the website that was requested a while ago. I understand that priority is being given to the final solution rather than the somewhat time consuming task of manual changes as required by the current system.

This thread does indicate that the website is used and that the changes will be worthwhile!

I have an answer from a CAT team member - there is an approx completion fo this if around 6 or so months

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Hadyn Nicholls PM
Homewood Lodge 447
Recruitment & Publicity Officer
http://www.homewood-lodge.net.nz
Wellington District Education Officer

Hi Jeremie perhaps if you change the website much would you please inform me about it, because I run a New Zealand based search engine and I would like to keep the search engines index fresh to stop any bad links being found.
Our webspiders are working 24/7 to keep the index accurate and it consumes a heap of bandwidth to keep it that way. We presently have a searchable index of more than fifty million Kiwi webpages and another twenty million webpages that were indexed from websites worldwide so you can see the problems we face with keeping the index fresh.
A little help and assistance from webmasters can keep things working really well.
Running a working search engine is one heck of a task, upto 120,000 searches pass through it everyday because we also feeds two meta search engines in America and Europe with our search results, they pass queries they get on their search engines, through our servers to enable them to show thousands of results when they don't have a very large index themselves.
It is the way that things work today.

Heaps of regards
Brother Dave Andrews
From Lodge 133 Te Awahou