A Note from the Webmaster

A Note from the Webmaster
6/1/11

It's been nearly a year since the new FNCA website went live on 6/11/10. A few first year stats: With over 4,000 visits this past year, the site averaged 360 visits per month with a peak last August of 461 and a low this past April of 304. The most popular pages in descending order are: Session Info, FNCA NEWS!, Summer Camp, About the FNCA, Photo Pages, and --- during May, June, and July, of course --- the Registration page.

© Ian Woofenden 2011Over Work Weekend 2011, I spent nearly 43 hours sitting in the Dole Wing doing website work: updating and improving pages, adding lots of historical All-Camp Group Photos, swapping in some new photos in a few places on other pages, etc.

One exciting new website feature that took me lots of time is that the FNCA map is now interactive! Mouseover items on the map and the name appears. Click on them and a page opens with a brief description, maybe a little history (if I know it!), and one or more photos of the location.This involved creating 27 new pages for the website!

Our webhost, my son Jason, was regularly found sitting next to me on Work Weekend evenings fixing glitches in the system as they came up, doing some formating changes (including the new green background), solving various formating problems, and providing excellent tech support (including finding a free site for making the interactive map).

You can read about all the website changes on the What's New on this Site page. (There's also a small link to it on the Home Page a little below the picture of the Main Building.)

Also brand new on the website this year (thanks to FNCA treasurer Bob Perry) is online registration which, as I write this a month after registration opened, has already been used by a significant portion of campers.

We've come across a cache of very old camp records dating back to the earliest days of the FNCA, so you can look forward to seeing a whole bunch more historical photos, early history, and fun old stuff on the site. Look for future announcements about it on the What's New on this Site page.

That being said, I'm still looking for camp photos from other sources (meaning YOU!), especially older photos from the 1960s and earlier. If you have old FNCA photos that you'd be willing to have included on this site, I would love to see them. You can get them to me in several ways:
1. Bring them to camp.
2. Scan them and email them to me at the email address at the bottom of the page.
3. Put them on Facebook so that my lovely wife, Nancy Little, can access them. You can either put them on your page and let her know, or else join the FNCA Facebook page or the FNCA Cool Kids! Facebook page and post them there. Be sure to tell me they're there!
4. Mail them to: P.O. Box 463, Haydenville MA 01039. If you select this option, I promise to take excellent care of your photos and if you'd like them returned, I'll pack them carefully and mail them back to you after I scan them or bring them to camp this summer if you're planning to attend.

If you do send photos, I'd like any information about them you might have including: the year the photo was taken, who took the picture, names of people, places, and relevant things, and so on. As much info as possible, basically. On the other hand, if you don't know (or don't have the time), I'd be very happy just to get the pictures.

There are some very specific photo images I'd like to add to specific pages on the website:
(* = fairly current photos only)
1. a good close up of Alice Vigerstad
2. photos of all the various camp committees*
3. handwork done at camp
4. inside the boys dorm*
5. the Board of Directors*
6. morning chapel*
7. just Senior Flames*
8. a picture of someone with their sponsor*
9. salad bar*
10. Sales Table*
11. people on the beach (Saco, not ocean!)
12. whole families (Guius, Richardsons, Perrys, Doles, Phinneys, etc., but not Woofs... I've got lots of those!)
13. multi-generational photos of all kinds
14. campers napping
15. all-camp group photos for years we don't have on the All-Camp Group Photos page
16. Laird Cabin- rear exterior and a full gamut of interior photos
17. Boston Cabin- full gamut of interior photos
18. Perry Cabin - full gamut of interior photos
19. Lawrence Cabin- rear exterior and full gamut of interior photos
20. Twitchell Cabin- rear exterior and full gamut of interior photos
21. Murdoch Cabin- more better exteriors and full gamut of interiors
22. Chalmers- more better exteriors and more interiors
23. Tool Shed- interior and inside of door
24. Bray Cabin- more better exteriors, full interiors
25. Taft Cabin- interiors
26. Claxton Cabin- interiors
27. Goddard Cabin- exterior entrance, full interiors
28. Faxon Cabin- exterior from the lawn, full interiors
29. Perry Wing- full interiors
30. Girls Dorm- full interiors

If you have any of these or any just plain terrific photos of camp you'll let us use, please get them to me via one of the methods listed above along with the name of the photographer and the year the picture was taken (if known) for copyright purposes.

If you have any additions, deletions, corrections, updates, suggestions, etc. of absolutely any sort for this website, please send them along to me at the address below.

Thanks everyone for making the FNCA so wonderful!

Your friendly FNCA Webmaster,
-Trevor
trevor@trevorthegamesman.com

P.S. I want to thank Dave Keating (lead proofreader), Jason Greenwood, Beki Phinney, Nancy Little, Jon Cousins, and Emily Woofenden four ther excillent prooffreading skells.