Welcome visitors and club members. This is the quasi-new website. It's not as finished as I would like for it to be, but arkansasdirtriders.com is pointed at it, so let me try to explain what you can (and can't) do at the moment.

First thing, you will need to register. This can be done here. Once you have registered I will assign ADR member status to you as soon as I recognize you. If you choose the same username that you used on the old bulliten board system it will be easy for me to give permissions.

Next are the currently working features. There are new forums. We have the same categories as before and if you are a member you will be allowed access to the member forum as well as the general, buy/sell, and announcement forums. A very handy feature of this software is if a message is posted to the forum is very important (an announcement, or some breaking news) it can easily be placed on the front page as well. I will give the ability to do this action to those who ask for it, and I'll try to explain how to do it (don't worry, it's very easy).

During the construction of this website this story will be kept sticky on the front page so that everyone will know what to expect.

First of all, let me explain what this is exactly. This website is "powered" by Drupal. Drupal is a content management system, created specifically for powering community-based websites. This is the reason I chose this free software.

There are several things people have asked for, and some things that I wanted to make available as well, so I'm going to try to bring them all in. Here is the big list in no particular order:

• bulliten board system
• user photo albums in progress
• user submitted content and comments
• trailhead locations using google maps in progress
• events calendar

Except for the trailhead locations portion, all of the above exists as modules for the system I am using. So basically I have to download them, install them, and configure them to fit our needs.

Additionally I will need to hone the look of the website so that it doesn't look exactly like all the other drupal powered websites. I'm employing Todd to create all the graphics (which should be very few).

Finally, there needs to be some explanation about each portion of the site for the users. What I mean is that each section (e.g. forum, photo album, etc.. ) needs to have instructions for use, guidelines, rules etc.

One more thing, please respond to this post in a comment with ideas and questions, this way I can keep them organized in one spot and everyone else can see them.