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A Brief Intro
As you may have realized, HAAS has, among other things, a web page. And not only does it have a web page, you are looking at it right now! Now, while some anime clubs might be okay with their web page being just a crappy-looking online flier, we here at HAAS think we can do better than that. We have the people, we have the talent, and one day we might get off our lazy rear ends and do it. ... And well, we are working on that. How are we working on it? Well, we plan on having polls you can click and vote for. We also are going to be trying our darnedest to keep the front page updated with the latest HAAS events. We also maintain The Plank, which is the newest message board we've got rockin' and rollin'.
But we decided that well, that wasn’t enough, so we have rants, reviews, fanart, and fiction pages as well. And not just for our own folks to send us to post. Because if we just did that we would never get anything. Which means we’ll have stuff from both local and not so local contributors. And because otaku like to dress up, we will even have a cosplay page. And if the mood strikes us, you might see even more stuff. Which you probably will. ^_^
Who are these people?
Bob the Milkman (Uber-Webmaster and Leet Skills #1) - Bob is was the head of this operation. He coded the previous site with his supah leet skills(tm) in php, XSSI, html, CSS, and others. Since he has abandoned us for the lovely city of Atlanta (our loss is Georgia's gain), his involvement with the site mostly consists of keeping Amy from making the site esplode as her skillz are approximately four years out of date. Bob's favorite anime series are FLCL and Read or Die, and he will kill anyone who thinks otherwise.
Amy "Roundelais" Newson - When Bob flew the coop, Basil looked around for other capable web-people. Seeing none, he saddled Amy with the responsibility of updating the site weekly, figuring that if he did so she'd at least change the dates on the events column once a month which is better than some of our previous web-lackeys had done. Somewhat addicted to the strike tag, Amy enjoys randomly rearranging some of the less-well-traveled portions of the site since those are the places where people are less likely to notice her mistakes. Her current plans include updates to the Fandomonium sections, which she has woefully neglected since the site upgraded to version 5.0.
Basil Berchekas III (President of HAAS, Graphics Junkie) - Well, since he's the President... needless to say, he gets a plug anyway. Actually he's the graphics junkie of the site and is was the main content editor for a lot of the sections Now Amy just runs amok. Basil also moderates the forums.
What did we use to make this wonderful web page? • Joomla! - For the main site we use Joomla!, a Content Management System which also happens to be Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License. According to them: "Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable." • phpBB - Our forums use phpBB, which according to them is "a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites."
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