Unto the Populace of Lochac and the Known World does Baron Sorle Maknicoll, Lochac Webwright, send greetings.
It’s Alive!
The time has come, and the ages have changed. The website hosted at https://lochac.sca.org/ has changed to bring Lochac into the more modern current middle ages. This site is more mobile-friendly, and update-friendly. This should make it more useful, and allow for more dynamic content in future, making it more relevant.
Please update!
At this time, I would like to suggest you check any bookmarks or links you might have had to the site, or pages on it. lochac.sca.org.au does not work any more, lochac.sca.org/lochac will redirect you to the correct page, but should no longer be used.
Links to the regnum, calendar, groups guide, etc might need checking.
This update has been a long time coming. We started using WordPress as a multi-site installation in 2012. Since that time, we (the Masonry Team) were focusing on helping group webministers have easily updated content through WordPress which enables those without web development skills to run websites. The Kingdom website, as complex as it is, was always going to be a difficult task to change, and so it languished for some time.
Thanks!
That this project has now succeeded is thanks to a number of people.
Firstly Master Nicodemus Novello, not just for his work behind the scenes making the switch between old and new sites while keeping the same address. He worked out ALL the logistics for ensuring that our other sites can still be accessed after the changes that result from that. He was also instrumental in making sure that the groups and baronage pages still work.
Secondly, Baron Karl Faustus von Aachen (more commonly known as Eric the Fruit Bat) who created the SpreadEx plugin that makes the Regnum work, and then coded the formatting of the subsequent list to what I requested – including many small changes and other larger direction turns along the way.
Finally, to the many people who offered suggestions and commentary when we were finally ready to take this project public. Even when suggestions were counter to what we were trying to do, or when they contradicted someone else’s suggestion, they were all appreciated. This is not my project, I was just the person shepherding it to completion … the Kingdom of Lochac website belongs to the entire Kingdom of Lochac, and so it was important to me to get feedback from the Kingdom of Lochac. For those who thoroughly went through every link, or even if you just looked at the part that mattered to you, thank you. Many of you will notice that things you suggested did end up eventuating. For those ideas that I didn’t adopt, there were good reasons, and it didn’t mean that your contribution wasn’t valued.
What’s next?
This is not the end of the updates to our web presence, of course, but those will likely be smaller and gradual now that the platform is set to make it happen.
In service to the Crown and Kingdom of Lochac, always.
Sorle, Lochac Webwright.