Marla Lecin Web Design Portfolio

The Barony of Settmour Swamp is a local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism. I have been a member of the group since 1983.

I first created a website for the group in 1996, and continued to update and expand it until I turned the job over to my successor in 2005.

The site conveys a great deal of information:

Basic group info (list of officers, calendar of events, directions to meetings, group zip-codes)
Research information (newcomers' info, links to historical research)
Settmour History (stories about the first 10 years, listing of past events, awards given to group members)

Features on the main page included a Search button and the Site Map, which worked via freefind.com.

Because the SCA tracks their dates from the year of its founding in 1966, the front page displayed "Today is (date), Anno Societatis NN." (Latin for "Year of the Society")

Most of the subpages on the site were "branded" with a standard left-hand column containing the group's arms and navigation links.

All subpages on the site had a top bar showing the "breadcrumb trail" that the user followed to get there. The user could click on any part of the trail to return to a previously viewed page. The bar also had links to the Site Map of all pages, and a Search function.