The Dots have always been grateful to their loyal fans who have been an incredible network of information and resources... helping to spread the word about concerts, creating promotional materials, and being involved with updating news articles on the website!

And now we're running a "Web 2.0" system for legendarypinkdots.org, which of course, brings a lot of new challenges... and on the plus side, more opportunities for people to get involved with the Dots community. If you want to help this site be a more complete and accurate history for the band, contact Lisette.

Systems administration

Our current systems administrator is a volunteer who is busy and knows only enough to cause trouble :) ... so we can always use a spare hand from someone who knows how to maintain, upgrade, and secure a Joomla! site.

Editors / Contributors

Because we're using Joomla!, we can allow there to be many editors for the site. You don't need to know programming or PHP in order to correct errors or fix bad formatting in articles.

The interviews that currently exist on the site were imported "as is" from the old website. It would be great if someone could go in and format them so they look nice and then add links to the online version of the interview (if they still exist).

With an account on legendarypinkdots.org you can add missing reviews, interviews, tour information, etc.

Graphic design

The visual appearance of legendarypinkdots.org hasn't been customized very much... we are currently using the default Joomla! template. So we're looking for artists and CSS gurus to help us "theme" Joomla! in a way that looks less like a newspaper, and really brings out the style and character of the band. Our vision is of a dilapidated church, with ancient stone scaffolding... then bits of bright stained glass shining through depicting members of the band (sample concept).

There is a big difference between having a vision and knowing how to make it happen! So if drawing fantastical art or theming Joomla! is your bailiwick then we'd love your help...

Community involvement

Involving yourself in the non-legendarypinkdots.org sites is great too. Keeping vandalism off of the Wikipedia bio or enhancing that article is very helpful. You can add cover art and track information to Freebase, making that more complete. Or upload your photos of the band to the Flickr group. These sites all help keep the community that's been going strong since 1980 keep going!

Promotion

And of course, there's one really easy and most fun ways to get involved—by introducing your friends to the Dots music and taking them to concerts with you!! :)

Thanks to everyone who has been involved in the creation of this site. It's been a fantastic experience in collaboration, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what it becomes. Please don't hesitate to write if you have any questions or ideas about the site!

Sincerely,

  

Lisette Sutherland, Lighthouse Promotions