It's been a long time in the making, but the HMBA website has received a much-needed overhaul!
Our URL has not changed.
http://www.hmba.org will take you to the new site now.
We also have a FUNCTIONAL calendar. Note we have a few events on it already. The Town Run night ride on Wed 29 Jan is listed, as well as all the events surrounding the Annual Meeting in February.
I want the calendar to be a community-sourced project. I don't want to be the only person adding stuff to it. There are a few folks who have permissions already to create events right now, but if you are someone who regularly organizes group rides, I'd love you to get in touch with me. Send me a private message here and let me know your e-mail address. That way, I can add you as a contributor to the calendar and we can keep this baby full of events for 2014 and beyond.
There are a couple of really cool things about Google Calendars. For one, it allows you to export events into your calendar program of choice. I believe many calendars can import the whole thing, even. Also, when you create an event, you can provide specific lat/long coordinates for the location, or a street address. For a lot of our events where we meet at a specific trailhead, using specific coordinates works best (see the way I used it for the Annual Meeting events, especially the group rides). No more trying to give new visitors to Fort Harrison State Park bad directions to a particular trailhead! You can get the coordinates easily enough from Google Maps.
Check out the Trail Guide, too. It's going to be a work in progress, but in its current state, it provides information for most trailhead locations in the state, with links to find more info here in our forums or on external sites (where available). Eventually, I want to get detailed pages up for every trail (especially the popular ones and the destination locations) so the HMBA website becomes the go-to guide for trail information in Indiana.
I will be working with Paul to make sure that whoever needs posting or admin privileges on the new site will get privileges on the new site.
