A society for atheists, rationalists, secularists and humanists
Our new website has now officially launched! We're still working on it and there will be some more changes before September but for now I will talk about the changes that we have already made.
New features: we have a photo gallery! With photos from some of our best events over previous years that will bring back lots of memories for our long standing members, I know they did for me.
We also have the store launched now so if you fancy a t-shirt or hoodie then head over there.
Improved features: we've added an RSS feed for our events which you can find on our all new RSS feeds pagge which links to the new and easier, more memorable URLs.
We've rewritten the about us page and added loads of new information about the society. We've now got links going all over the place too to things such as our Facebook group and Secular Portal.
Indeed we have rewritten most of the site and updated all the page content to bring it up to date.
We're currently working on re-doing the website given that summer is upon us and we will have a fresh intake of students joining the society in September.
The new website will not really change design wise, we won't be altering the layout or design too much, we will more be playing with the content as that is the most important part after all.
The new site will focus on providing more information on what the society actually does and will feature a few more rich media sections too. We'll keep you posted on development.
First of all the provisional timetable for Rationalist Week 2008 is now online! This will probably change a bit as we haven't got into the full swing of planning meetings with the whole society yet but we have a complete timetable provisionally (not all of it has been announced yet).
Along those lines, our first guest speaker, Mike Lake has now be confirmed. Anyone who was here last year will remember Mike gave a fantastic talk back in April so it's great news he has agreed to come up once more.
More details will hopefully be coming soon. We will be having a meeting before the end of term for people wanting to get involved and if anyone is around over Easter there will be some planning meetings too.
Norm's talk on social evolution is now available as a video for the people that missed the talk - head over to the videos section of the website to watch.
We've run into some real downtime problems recently so we've now moved to a new, hopefully more stable web server. So major downtime should be a thing of the past.
Atheist Week is going well. If you have missed a lot of it - don't worry! It's all going on YouTube.
With that in mind we have now launched our new video library which lists all of the videos we have now uploaded categorised into various topics.
Head over to the videos page to check it out. There are plenty more videos from Atheist Week on their way.
The informational page for Atheist Week is finally online. It details the various events that are going on including the specific talks and other events, where they are, what time, etc.
I've now posted a page about the weekend away in November where we will be going down to London this year.
The page contains information about the weekend, an outline of the schedule (which we are still putting together) and a few other details on the trip. It will be updated as we get more information sorted.
If you haven't heard about the weekend away you're missing out - it's a bargain weekend in London, we have a train booked to take us there and back and accommodation right in the centre of the city.
It's open to everybody (though members get a big discount) so you can bring your friends along as all the A-Soc activites we are organising are optional.
I've just added loads of events listings. And I mean a lot! We've now got 14 upcoming events on the events page.
And this pretty much represents the events we are running in the first term. Some of them are for next term but then I haven't finished adding all the events we are running this term - there are still a few talks to confirm and I haven't added any of the socials yet.
When we said we had a busy year for the society planned, we weren't joking. I'm hoping this year will really live up to everyone's expectations so head over to the events page and take a look. If not, drop me an email and complain! :).
While this is probably fairly boring news, I'm going to post about it anyway :p.
The events page has now been tweaked so that it only displays the first paragraph of the events details. This is because previously it would display the entire details which could sometimes be an awful lot of text and it didn't display with any paragraphing - it was just one mass of text.
Now it just displays a quick description and you can click on the event name to get full details. The description has a [More] indicator if there is more text to be read when you view the full details of an event (which there almost always is).