Wow! It has been a busy summer for us on the computer side of things in the Intermountain Division. Our primary task for this summer was to make more the website considerably more helpful for the membership. To this end, we re-organized and re-formatted most of the pages on the website to put the most important info front and center, and make it unnecessary to go digging through long documents to find the right information. We’re also committed to keeping out-of-date info off the website going forward!

 

The biggest changes happened in the Membership and Disciplines sections, as well as the front page. If you’re working on becoming certified, or you’re new to PSIA, take a look around through those sections; there is lots of very useful information there that can tell you exactly what you need to do to achieve your goals.

 

Our other big project was to rebuild the event calendar from scratch. The main reason was to make it more efficient for the office staff to get the calendar set up for the season, but we were also able to add many features to make it easier for members to find the event they’re looking for. Events are displayed similarly to the old version, in a color-coded monthly calendar. By clicking on one of the discipline names or opening the “Filter Displayed Events” link, it is possible to show only events pertaining to a certain discipline or based on other criteria, including the location where the event is held. The individual pages for each event should be much more helpful than they have been in the past, as well.

 

We also moved our web and email services to a new server, which allows us more direct control over our systems, as well as reducing our costs for this by approximately 75%.

 

All in all, we hope that these updates make life easier for all of the members this season and into the future. If you have any feedback on ways to further improve the website or the calendar, please feel free to send them to the division office, or you may contact me directly at webmaster@psia-i.org if you prefer.