The VSA website didn’t always look like this! We have archives ranging back to 2004, and it’s been slowly evolving over time. You can see bits and pieces of the website through this time portal here. Certain dates contain a “screenshot” of the website, which may have some functional links on them still!
2004-2007: The beginnings – or at least what we can find anyway. It was created by the president at the time, Nhu Nguyet Phan. Originally the eboard had a webmaster too, Loi Duong, who helped manage the website. Webmaster is no longer a current eboard position, but maintaining the website was passed down to secretary… which eventually turned into public relations… that turned into historian… that turned into media specialist!
2007-2008: According to our records, something happened but it looks pretty funky… it’s pretty much a wall of text.
2009: The website disappeared!? We’re not sure what happened here either.
2010-2014: The second version! It has actually stayed like this. for. four. years. Some tricky behind-the-scenes work resulted in a very buggy website that refused to be redesigned until it was finally resolved by the media specialist of 2014-2015, Ann Phung.
Fall 2014 – Spring 2015: The much-needed update that resulted in the (then) most recent version of our website.
Fall 2016 – Spring 2017: One of the co-VP’s, Matt Dang, put his CS major to use and clicked some buttons to install a new WordPress theme that is the website now. Back in Fall 2015 – Spring 2016, he also made a little tool on the website to view past newsletters as he was learning basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (not sure if it even works anymore though). There was also a little dabbling in PHP *shudders*. Those were the days…
A note to any future e-boarders reading this: It would be super cool to completely rebuild the website using some more modern tools. Although, I’m assuming that a big reason why we’ve stuck with WordPress all these years is because of it’s relative ease of use (even though I’ve experienced much frustration with it haha). But even if you just want to make some minor changes or whatever, feel free to email me if you have any questions about the website! I can’t guarantee that I’ll remember much, but I’ll try my best. dang.ma@husky.neu.edu
Also, if you make any big changes, make sure to follow the pattern and add a little description here talking about it in third-person!