YANA back in business

[Guest guest]

I was wrong. When I said I was closing the

Experiences pages of the Yana site for new

entries or updates of existing entries I thought that everyone would transfer

their stories to the myProstate site (http://www.myprostate.eu/

) as I suggested they should. This site seemed to me to be superior to Yana and I thought it an ideal solution.

Turns out that, seemingly, very few people agree with

me. Only about 5% of the men who shared their stories on Yana

have transferred to myProstate and a number mailed me to say they found the

site antiseptic, impersonal and too hard to load. A greater number mailed me to

thank me for my past work and, whilst they said they understood my decision,

said that they felt that Yana was a very

valuable resource and that it had been very helpful to them.

So …… my conscience pricked, my batteries

recharged, I have decided to open the flood gates again, while still looking

for another solution for the future. From today the site will operate as it has

the past. New stories can be added by going to http://www.yananow.org/JoinUsForm.html

and updates submitted by going to http://www.yananow.org/UpdateYourStatsForm.html

I am hopeful that there will be a better, more

effective, less labour intensive solution in the future. Jim, a man far more

knowledgeable than I, has mailed me with some excellent suggestions – and

he says that he and his son should be able to help me. I am sure that, from

what he says we will be able to get to a position where Yana

will be refurbished as YANA-2, maintaining the essence of the current site but

making it easier to find information and contribute your experiences.

Jim makes a very important point when he says:

<snip> This is the way I would

think you would want to develop a YANA-2 – first draft a somewhat

detailed proposal (written in MS Word – with pictures of proposed

screens, etc.). A small group of folks …….. would exchange these

documents on how the new site would look and operate – add comments

– revise the spec – etc., until a detailed plan existed.

<snip>

That was essentially what we did in developing the

basic site that grew into Yana and I’d

like to do the same thing again. So if there is anyone who would like to be

part of this process – it will not be onerous and will not require any IT

knowledge – just a view on what PCa men might find useful – please

mail me, off list at yananow@...

and let me know.

All the best

Prostate men need enlightening, not frightening

Terry Herbert

- diagnosed in 1996 and still going strong

Read A Strange Place for unbiased information at http://www.yananow.org/StrangePlace/index.html