Canberra Community Support Website

Thank you, Sammy…
I will continue to make improvements where I can !!!

The changes you’ve made are a vast improvement. Well done.

Hi, Bourke…

Thank you for the Support !

Actually… The Site has been on the internet since July 2005… and I have made numerous changes (hopefully ‘improvements’ !) in that time !

I might just mention that I am long-term ‘unemployed’… and the website is one of my ways of giving back to the Community… I also spend several hours per week ‘volunteering’ for a Community Organisation !

Whilst I am happy to accept the ‘criticism’ in this Forum… and use it to hopefully make further improvements to the Site… it is worthy of mention that since August 2006, there have been 41,840 Visits to the Site… (both National and International)… and currently, in excess of 30 percent of the Visitors are adding my Site to their ‘Favourites List’ for future reference !
Not bad for someone who has never had any formal training in website design !!!

Hi Tom,
Good on you. What some people don’t understand is that the community sector, and all the vital services it provides, survives because people like you are doing all they can to help others. While top-knotch web design creds are nice, we don’t all possess them, so we do what we can. Good on you for taking the above criticism so well! Best of luck for your project.

I like the Volunteering section. I don’t live in Canberra anymore although frequently visit still.

In the past when I was living there I was always interested in finding out how to Volunteer because with my job I get a lot of time off so this site would have helped.

HI Tom

You’ve passed web 101 anyway – which says don’t get offended by rude comments made by strangers.

Hi, Folks…

Thanks for the Comments… particularly the ‘Constructive Criticism’.
I’ve made changes to the appearance of the Site, so that it isn’t so hard on the eyes…
and you will note… NO MUSIC !!!

As for other similar websites on the internet… I might just mention that some of the Organisations that are represented on my Site, don’t have websites of their own… and as such… the webpage they have on my Site is all they have, for now !

Please feel free to keep the comments coming in… not too technical though please, because I am self-taught as far as website design is concerned… and if you get too technical… I probably won’t understand what you are meaning !

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the post and thanks for putting together the website – the information looks good but I agree with some of the comments (sans the nastiness) that the presentation is a bit ugly. Perhaps some of your critics might volunteer some help with the site’s issues.

I’m very sorry Tom. You have your heart in the right place, I’m sure. For that, you get my thumbs up.

But you’ve created yet another website to replicate information which exists in other places, which is also quite well known.

Your site sucks dogs balls, seriously, it’s a nightmare on the eyes. It’s bad.

It’s hard to read, not database structured and honestly looks like it’s straight out of 1995. I shudder at static html when searching.

The truth may hurt, but unless you take such honest feedback on board, your site will sink simply beacause it sucks.

why is that music even there

Because amateur web designers think it adds something to the product. In reality, it takes away.