2011 : SUMMARY OF THE YEAR (3/4)

13-12-2011

Analysis of the 2011 year, 26th year of our B.I.G challenge, under four chapters : the events, the evolution, the website and the material.

3) THE WEBSITE

What about the new website 2.0 that appeared last year ? Which approvements and problems to extract from this website ? Clic on "read more".

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Wouter De Ruyck, our webmaster, created a new website in 2010, still better than the previous one. The website challenge-big 1.0 from 2002 to 2007 was a static one. The website challenge-big 1.0+ from 2008 to july 2010 was a dynamic one. The website 2.0, since july 2010, is a dynamic community, with user-input.

Wouter decided to work with us differently and to give special periods of works with our association. He worked a lot in november, and now he'll also be busy at the end of december; but let's be careful that if we need some great improvement in the website, it sometimes requests a lot of time before having it really online.

 

1. The languages

The website is in 15 different languages : nl,uk,fr,ro,de,es,it,hu,cz,pl,sv,pt,sk,dk,si. There are normally official translators designed for each language and they can work when they want with a personal permission and new features to update the missing fields, the new pages and the FAQs. The result is not yet perfect. There are great differences between the languages, but if one language hasn't the translation, the english language appears per default in the page. We always need somebody for translating in slovenian and danish languages, with the target to give good company to the few members of those great cycling countries inside our dear B.I.G challenge.

 

2. The improvements

Just announced in those news a few weeks ago, you've noticed the several improvements already fixed and still under works. I'm sure that 2012 will begin with a website still giving more easiness, help and use than before.

3. Problems

The delay requested to fix a problem in the website is a real problem for the challenge but we're not a  professional enterprise, even if we do our best to seem like one. Some datas waits since a long time to be updated and revisited but the day by day work, in addition of the professional and familial business of our committee's managers, requests their whole time currently. We're always fetching to some good improvements, more mechanical and automatic, to give time to the committee to manage what the 4000 members are requiring. But it's sometimes hard to give satisfaction to everybody. It will be a good challenge to attempt this kind of insured and efficient management in a very near coming future, I think !


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10-12-2011 - 2011 : SUMMARY OF THE YEAR (2/4)
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21-11-2011 - BIG REVIEW 2012
15-11-2011 - B.I.G WEBSITE UNDER WORKS
08-11-2011 - THE IRON3 PRESIDENT GODFATHERIZED THE HERRENBERG
08-11-2011 - 2012 IS COMING
03-11-2011 - FREDERIC RAFOLS WROTE A BOOK
03-11-2011 - MARC METAILLER 25x
02-11-2011 - HEIKO LINNERT, A GERMAN GODFATHER OF POGGIO
02-11-2011 - AXEL JANSEN : 3 TIMES GODFATHER IN 3 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
21-10-2011 - MAXIMILIAN HARTH, THE YOUNGEST GODFATHER
21-10-2011 - CLAUDIU GLAJARIU:A SNOWY 2nd IRONBIG
19-10-2011 - TOUR 2012 UP OUR BIGs
18-10-2011 - GIRO 2012 UP OUR BIGs
08-10-2011 - LUIGI SPINA, TWICE GODFATHER TOO
08-10-2011 - BIGs IN UKRAINE
03-10-2011 - THE 1st SLOVAK IRONBIGMAM IS BORN
03-10-2011 - NEWSLETTER 03/2011 JUST ARRIVED !
18-09-2011 - REVIEWS B.I.G & CONTRIBUTIONS
17-09-2011 - THE IRONBIG HUNGARIAN GROUP IS BORN
14-09-2011 - IRONKOPPENBERG IN THE POCKET
11-09-2011 - LIONEL DAVID, COLOMBIERE\'S GODFATHER
11-09-2011 - ALFREDO RUIZ DE AZUA, ORDUÑA\'s GODFATHER
08-09-2011 - HE DID IT !
08-09-2011 - TO CATCH THE MOON
07-09-2011 - PH.DEMARS & T.FOX 2nd TIME GODFATHERS
06-09-2011 - DISPATCHING BIGS IN THE WORLD
02-09-2011 - Richard van Ameijden goes Iberia
30-08-2011 - Een Italiaanse Peetvader?
24-08-2011 - CLUB OF 500 ON THE WAY TO CLUB OF 1.000
22-08-2011 - SICILIAN BIGS
21-08-2011 - CURRENT CLASSEMENTS
18-08-2011 - MANEL GOMEZ MOLLET RODE 25 TIMES THE MONT CARO
17-08-2011 - THE CHAUDANNE FORT 25x ATTACKED BY MICHEL MENARD
16-08-2011 - IRONRAF
15-08-2011 - KEUTENGOBERG
08-08-2011 - ATTENTION ! Nrs 866-875 HAVE NEW RULES
08-08-2011 - CHALLENGE
07-08-2011 - VIKING TOUR : HONOUR FOR US
07-08-2011 - BIG CLOTHES : NEW ARRIVAL
01-08-2011 - NUMBER 9!
26-07-2011 - LADIES IN B.I.G
26-07-2011 - EFFORT DOESN\'T MEAN NO FUN
22-07-2011 - LAST NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
15-07-2011 - THE NEWSLETTER 2011/2 IS ONLINE
13-07-2011 - DRINK OFFERED BY MDS
08-07-2011 - MEET & GREET ON BAELACH NA BA
21-06-2011 - 3D TOURS, STREETVIEW & PROFILS OF TdF CLIMBS
17-06-2011 - THE FIRST CZECH IRONBIGMAN IS BORN
16-06-2011 - Videoreport of a 4-day trip to Villach Austria
14-06-2011 - FINAL RUSH FOR ERIC & ETIENNE
09-06-2011 - BIG Dreams
23-05-2011 - MEMBERS FROM BELGIUM : YOU\'RE WELCOME !
18-05-2011 - IRONBIG : KRZYSZTOF BUFNAL TWICE IN ONE WEEK
16-05-2011 - HUNGARIAN 2011 BIG-DAY FULL OF SUCCESS
13-05-2011 - SOMETHING TO SAY ? BIGSHOUT !
10-05-2011 - FIRST IRONPOLISH UP OXENHOPE MOOR
07-05-2011 - GIRO 2011 : A WINDOW ON OUR BIGs
05-05-2011 - IRON-MIEL GODFATHERED THE GULPENERBERG
05-05-2011 - SUMMER IS COMING : ORDER OUR B.I.G CLOTHES
03-05-2011 - RECORDMEN IRONBIG GROUP
29-04-2011 - NEWS OF PASSES & NEW PASSES
25-04-2011 - TOP10 : RANKING 04/2011
21-04-2011 - 25 TIMES A COW & A CALF
15-04-2011 - POST-MEETING OPERATION2525
13-04-2011 - ABC SPONSORTOUR WAS A SUCCESS!
05-04-2011 - THE FIRST NEWSLETTER OF 2011 IS AVAILABLE.
01-04-2011 - TERRIBLE CHANGES IN OUR CLIMBS
30-03-2011 - 1.000 DUTCH MEMBERS
29-03-2011 - Steven ROOKS joins ABC Sponsor tour!
28-03-2011 - They and what we can do
26-03-2011 - TOP10 CURRENT RANKINGS
23-03-2011 - THEY AND US
09-03-2011 - THE FIRST 2011 IRONBIG IS AN IRISH LADY
09-03-2011 - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ABC-SPONSOR
06-03-2011 - WEBSITE IN PROGRESS
02-03-2011 - OUR WAY
21-02-2011 - 2011 LOCAL MEETINGS
20-02-2011 - MORTIROLO VIDEO\'S
15-02-2011 - ABC Sponsors Tour !
07-02-2011 - PAY FOR GROSSGLOCKNER
30-01-2011 - COVER REVIEW 2011
15-01-2011 - MORE THAN 100 BIGs IN THE WORLD TOUR 2011
12-01-2011 - MONSTER ANGLIRU BACK IN THE VUELTA 2011
11-01-2011 - 2011 STARTED IN A HURRY !
04-01-2011 - DEADLINE 15/01/2011
02-01-2011 - EVOLUTION
01-01-2011 - 2011