{"id":1,"date":"2015-03-25T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/03c2320.netsolhost.com\/\/sniwla\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-06-04T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:52:46","slug":"hello-world-welcome-to-our-new-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/hello-world-welcome-to-our-new-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello World! Welcome to Our New Web Site!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our\u00a0new website, established in May of 2015,\u00a0for the Suffolk-Nansemond Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America!<\/p>\n<p>Why did we port our old web site, \u00a0formerly hosted at Google Sites for over 6 years,\u00a0to this new website? \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0new website is based on a blogging style\u00a0layout\u00a0which we believe will allow us to communicate better with our Membership and to the general public by being easier to navigate; \u00a0further it should make for a more enjoyable browsing experience since photos are interspersed throughout articles rather than being buried in cluttered\u00a0photo galleries. \u00a0Another\u00a0nice feature of our\u00a0new website is that it is uses\u00a0a responsive WordPress template which means it will automatically adjust to the dimensions of any device (desktop browser, smart phone, tablet, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Our new web site facilitates the posting of blogging-style summaries using\u00a0hyperlink\u00a0references to full-blown articles posted \u00a0by\u00a0other environmental\/conservation-affiliated\u00a0organizations such as The Wildlife Society, with the caveat that we must give proper credit for each article taking care\u00a0to avoid plagiarism. \u00a0\u00a0Also, it\u00a0provides an automatic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed<\/a> for those folks who choose to subscribe to our new website&#8217;s news articles\u00a0using their\u00a0preferred RSS reader,\u00a0rather than manually checking our website\u00a0for new content.<\/p>\n<p>There are many other features and capabilities of our website that we have yet to explore. \u00a0For example, we may choose to \u00a0integrate our monthly Chapter newsletter with\u00a0our website using\u00a0hyperlinks in hopes of driving more\u00a0web site traffic to our web site. \u00a0Also, there\u00a0are\u00a0Facebook and Twitter social sharing capabilities\u00a0that\u00a0we have yet to enable, but may do so in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the Webmaster at <a href=\"mailto:suffolknansemondiwla@gmail.com\">suffolknansemondiwla@gmail.com<\/a> if you have any questions\/issues with regards to this website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our\u00a0new website, established in May of 2015,\u00a0for the Suffolk-Nansemond Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America!<\/p>\n<p>Why did we port our old web site, \u00a0formerly hosted at Google Sites for over 6 years,\u00a0to this new website? \u00a0 Primarily because we were running out of storage space, but  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/hello-world-welcome-to-our-new-web-site\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}