NEW CFO WEBSITE: MORE INFO

[Ted Floyd]

Hello, Birders.

The deed is done. Bill Kaempfer mentioned a moment ago the CFO website switchover, and it has happened. The plug has been pulled. The CFO website you're all familiar with, http://CFOBirds.org, is no more. It was wonderful in its day, but we've moved on. CFO's new online address...drumroll please...is:

http://COBirds.org

The site presents tons of updated content, tons more brand-new content, and many exciting new functionalities. In the next few days, we'll highlight some of the "special attractions" of the new site. For now, here's a conceptual overview:

1. All CFO applications (Colorado Bird Records Committee, Colorado County Birding, and the CFO website proper) are integrated so that one login works for all.

2. The site is designed to render well on a smartphone, tablet, or old-fashioned laptop monitor.

3. Nearly all of the content from the old website has carried over to the new site. We'll talk more about this later in the week.

4. New content and new functionalities include an events calendar, trip reports, online county listing, password-protected access to the journal Colorado Birds, and a lot more. As with point #3, above, we'll talk more about this in the next day or so.

You might be wondering: How did this happen? Who did it??

Good questions. The website redesign was approved and overseen by the CFO Board of Directors. The actual heavy lifting was performed by Ann Johnson, an Iowa birder with AJEndeavors, LLC, a web application development country. All BoD members have been involved to some extent in troubleshooting, beta-testing, and content-generating, with David Gillilan serving as Lead on the website redesign. Going forward, David will continue to oversee day-to-day management of the website. Huge thanks to Ann and David, as well as to those who laid the foundation: Brenda Linfield, Mark Peterson, and Rachel Hopper. Thanks also to Jim Beatty and Doug Faulkner for providing much conceptual guidance along the way.

Enough of my jibber jabber. Go check out the new website:

http://COBirds.org

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado

P.s. Humongous flock of Snow Geese over Boulder a bit earlier in the day.