Website for South African Military Engineers
Pixelwave Web Design has recently embarked upon a new website design project for South African and Rhodesian Military Engineers.
The website is intended for access by serving members of these regiments and more importantly as a contact point for retired engineers. It’s requirements as a community website therefore makes this project an ideal candidate for a forum based website that will allow members to post and reply to each other in topic based threads. In addition to this there will be a set of hoto galleries that will allow the administrators to add images and photos at will. If required the software used to drive these photo galleries will also allow individual members to have and maintain their own photo albums.
Login and membership details will be integrated throughout the site, and in addition to adding images and posting in the forums members will have their own personal profiles and will be able to send private messages between themselves.
I have had little to go on design-wise, just the regimental colours, so will keep the design clean and easy to use. Once the basics of the website are in place I shall be instructing the administrators on its use and providing support while they attempt to get the online community up and running. In general terms, community based website can be difficult to get off the ground as they tend to need a certain base level of membership to make them attractive to other members. However in this case, the proposed membership is a very distinct set of individuals all of whom will have similar experiences that they wish to share, so hopefully there should be a good base from which to develop a community website.
