Welcome to our new website, established in May of 2015, for the Suffolk-Nansemond Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America!
Why did we port our old web site, formerly hosted at Google Sites for over 6 years, to this new website? Primarily because we were running out of storage space, but also because the layout of our old web site was badly in need of an upgrade.
Our new website is based on a blogging style layout which we believe will allow us to communicate better with our Membership and to the general public by being easier to navigate; further it should make for a more enjoyable browsing experience since photos are interspersed throughout articles rather than being buried in cluttered photo galleries. Another nice feature of our new website is that it is uses a responsive WordPress template which means it will automatically adjust to the dimensions of any device (desktop browser, smart phone, tablet, etc.)
Our new web site facilitates the posting of blogging-style summaries using hyperlink references to full-blown articles posted by other environmental/conservation-affiliated organizations such as The Wildlife Society, with the caveat that we must give proper credit for each article taking care to avoid plagiarism. Also, it provides an automatic RSS feed for those folks who choose to subscribe to our new website’s news articles using their preferred RSS reader, rather than manually checking our website for new content.
There are many other features and capabilities of our website that we have yet to explore. For example, we may choose to integrate our monthly Chapter newsletter with our website using hyperlinks in hopes of driving more web site traffic to our web site. Also, there are Facebook and Twitter social sharing capabilities that we have yet to enable, but may do so in the future.
Please contact the Webmaster at suffolknansemondiwla@gmail.com if you have any questions/issues with regards to this website.
Looking pretty good!