Right now I'd settle for getting a District V Chartered Club link fixed.

The AMA link for Emerald City RC Club, in Georgia, reads as "http://www.goecities.com/emeraldcityflyers"

Link doesn't work because it should read GEOCITIES, not GOECITIES. It's a simple typo.

Been trying to get that fixed for over six months, to no avail. I managed to get all the other bad links for District V Chartered Club web sites fixed, but for some reason correcting an html typo appears an insurmountable problem.

You may be doing functional specs, but odds are better than even that you can find someone in Muncie capable of swapping two letters in an html link. Maybe.

The other Districts have an equal or greater number of bad links to Chartered Clubs.

If the Chartered Clubs' web site link pages cannot be maintained in good order, would-be visitors to those clubs have to resort to finding the club in the Chartered Club listing, elsewhere on the AMA web site.

As for functional specs, there has _got_ to be a way for Chartered Clubs to get club contact and web site data corrected without need for EC action. I know how that process is supposed to work, but the simple fact is that it doesn't. Yes, I know the staffers are swamped. Staffs are _always_ swamped. Nothing new there. No reason the task of reviewing District links can't be farmed out to the VP or one of the AVPs. Even better, give _them_ the ability to correct District-specific sections of the site.

It would be nice if the text for the buttons didn't latch onto the screen pointer until the pointer crossed another button. Sticky text is at least irritating, moreso if it obscures a button the visitor is trying to find.

The AMA Documents (PDF) links, under Member Services, need to be links to html pages, not .pdf files. .pdf files can sometimes take forever and a day to load, depending on the connection speed. It's not a burdensome task to convert a text document to an html document, particularly when the source documents have a low rate of change. Why force visitors to wait while Adobe loads, or worse, why force them to use Adobe when it is not necessary ?

There is a lot of basic AMA information not available on the web site. Case in point : every Fall we see innumerable rants about 'paying a full years dues for only part of a year', or questions like 'how does AMA pro-rate late year memberships for new members ? This kind of information needs to be presented as FAQs because the vast majority of web surfers are used to FAQs. Forcing them to read footnotes on a .pdf document wastes their time.

Ditto for insurance concerns. The number of questions regarding the actual insurance coverage for members is almost a universal constant. Sounds like an excellent candidate for a FAQ that addresses 'what if' scenarios.

'Other links' needs to be reworked from the top. Among other things, why does AMA provide links to aero clubs and personal web pages in other countries without also providing a link to the National aeromodeling organization in that same country ? It's nice to see a link to an Irish club, but where is the link to their National organization ? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question because I know the MACI link is there, it's just not on the same page with the link to 'Newbridge And District Model Flying Club', which _was_ the URL for that Irish club but which has been revamped into a personal web site that does not represent the Newbridge organization.

In short, the 'Other Links' section is a mess, pure and simple, and far too many of the links are either defunct or are not what they were when the link was created. A routine audit of links provided on the AMA web site would seem appropriate for inclusion in your functional specs.

You _did_ ask.