INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

Launching of Club’s Official Website

The Design of Club Official Website is a long term project headed by the Information Technology Director Leo Goh Reebin. This project includes 5 different stages of planning, designing, developing, launching and maintaining the website.

The website is fully completed and equipped with the following information :-

1) Messages from Presidents & Past Presidents, as well as the Lions.
2) Information related to Leo program.
3) Club’s Information including history, BOD list and etc.
4) Contacts/Directory for key club members.
5) Projects Information including reports for all completed projects.
6) Calendar for all upcoming projects.

The launching of the website was held during the 2nd Anniversary Fellowship Dinner of the club to represent another meaningful achievement, and how far we’ve come in the past 2 years.

A special Flash Presentation was designed by the IT committee for the launching purposes. Lion Alex Yeap, as representative for Lions Club of KL Vision City President, officially launched the website by pressing the start button on the laptop prepared and then, the Flash Presentation started. The flash presentation included some snapshots on the major activities the club has organized in the past 2 years, the achievement during the Leo Forum, and of course, what the members are looking forward to in the time to come, and finally the official URL and the loading of new website.

The launching of the website indicates the completion of the project for the first 4 stages and the maintaining stage will be continuously carried out by the IT committee for the rest of the year by updating and renewing the information on the website on a regular basis.

The URL of the official club website is http://www.klperennial.cjb.net.

Screenshot of the website’s main page.

Lion Alex Yeap launched the website accompanied by Leo President Leo Chua Yee Kuan.

Renewal of Club’s Official Website

Our club's official website was launched in October 2004 during the club anniversary by Lion Alex Yeap, 1st Vice President of Lions Club KL Vision City, and has been operating for a total of 5 months. The previous version of website consisted the list of contents as below :-

1) Messages from Leo Presidents & Past Presidents
2) Information related to Leo program
3) Club’s Information including history, current BOD and past BOD line-up.
4) Projects Information including reports for all completed projects.
5) Calendar for all upcoming projects.
6) Contacts/Directory for key club members.

However, due to the increase of visitors and the numbers of comments we received from the members, Leos and Lions stating that the previous version of website did not content sufficient and updated information, as well as the various problems and difficulties they faced as a result of the lack of user-friendliness design.

A new IT committee was set up again to evaluate the above problems and then decided to renew the entire website by putting in more relevant contents, information and interactive features at the same time.

The IT Committee spent a total of 20 days from the beginning of February until 19 February 2005 to complete the website renewal. On top of the existing contents, the new version of website were added with new features and contents as below:-

1) Each club member will be given a personal email address '[email protected]' and can be logged in and sign up from the club website.
2) Search Engine for visitors to search for a particular info on the site.
3) Guestbook, Mini Poll, Message Forums & Online Chatroom to allow members and visitors to interact, comment and exchange ideas via the website itself.
4) Newly improved Calendar with all updated upcoming projects and schedule.
5) Photo albums to include all the past projects photos and to be shared among the members.
6) Site map to guide the visitors through the website
7) Messages from Leo Advisors, Lions President, DC Leos and District Governor.
8) Hall of Fame listing all the awards received by KL Perennial in the past 2 years.
9) Projects report rearranged based on different categories.

In terms of design, the brand new design with the concept color of grey toning was done with the user’s comfortability of eye sight in mind; using a less contrast of colors so that it wouldn’t causes the user to feel tired easily on a long hour surfing.

All contents and links on the site have also been located evenly by using tables so that the users would not find it messy to search for any information from the website. The new mouse over feature will highlight a particular link/text in dark grey background and changes the font color into white when it was pointed by the mouse cursor which will also directly enhances the users’ navigation.

We hoped that this renewal of website will not only be another effort from the IT committee to further building up the image of the club but also another large step of us moving towards the new era of information technology. With all the new interactive features we included, our website will be functioning as more than just web pages but actually a web portal for our members as well as the other visitors to get together, exchanging ideas and keeping themselves updated. And of course, even our members-at-large who are all the way in Europe or Australia can still be part of it and continuously being informed of the latest projects/activities from time to time.
Besides the objective of web presentation, we strongly believed that this new website will also be able to operate as a platform of unity to strengthen the bond between the old and new members in the club.

The completion of website renewal was officially announced by Leo President Leo Chua Yee Kuan on the 19th February during our club’s Chinese New Year Fellowship. The new website can be viewed online at :-

http://www.klperennial.cjb.net

Below are some of the screenshots from the new website :-