Archive for July, 2005

Users vs email subscribers vs USMTA members

Monday, July 25th, 2005

It’s a little confusing, but there are distinct differences between being a USMTA:

Registered User (Allows you to add comments to the blog posts here).
Email list subscriber (You’ll receive alerts via email.)
Member (You join the USMTA by submitting your contact information to us.)

As of today we have 23 users and 64 email subscribers. I’ll check with […]

Photos wanted

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I’m looking for headshot-type photos of the USMTA board members to add to the About Us page… like this one of Dale Malasek and Geoff Aaron that I took at the US World Round in Duluth in 2004 (see the People album).
Contact me or attach a comment here.

A new association for motorcycle trials

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Hi, I’m Dan Brown of the Trials Training Center, one of the instigators of this new association. Welcome to the website of the US Motorcycle Trials Association (USMTA). I hope everyone who enjoys this great sport will take some time to see what this is all about and then consider joining the USMTA […]

Membership form ready

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

We now have a membership form on the Membership page.
Membership categories are:

individual member (free) 
sustaining member ($)

Once we get your info, we’ll be in touch.

Committees page

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

We’ve added a Committees page to the site, with details on these committees:

Directory committee
Club resource committee
Publicity committee
Trials Expo committee

Create a caption

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Who are these guys? (click the photo for a larger view)
What is the geezer on the left saying to the geezer on the right? What is the one on the right thinking?
Attach a comment to this blog post with your caption and you might win an all-expenses paid trip to learn how to attach […]

Boring sitestyle. Borrrrrrring.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

We’re temporarily using a canned WordPress template for the sitestyle/theme while we get the more important pieces of the site in place. Boring, I know.
So don’t get your eyeballs too attached to this blue/gray/white theme. It’ll change.
In the meantime, learn how to do splatters. It’s not boring.

eSubscriptions

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

We’ve added a section to the sidebar: eSubscriptions.
You can use a newsreader to subscribe to our RSS feed.
Or you can subscribe to our USMTA e-announcement list and get an occasional email alerting you to recent posts to this weblog. This is what the form looks like:

Founding members

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

We’ve added a section to the sidebar, listing the USMTA’s founding member organizations and the links to their websites.

New pages

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

We’ve added a Contact Us page, an About Us page, and a Membership Page. Those pages are all accessible via the sidebar.

Blogsite - Coming soon

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Watch for blog posts from the USMTA executive committee… real soon now.

Dan Brown, Trials Training Center
Brad Baumert, Zip Express

Shan Moore, Trials Competition

We (Wigley and Associates) will be gradually be putting up the rest of the site over the next month or so.