| TAYLOR POND YACHT CLUB |
TPYC Lessons
Taylor Pond Yacht Club is a sailing club, founded by adults who built boats, sailed them, and taught their children to build and sail.
We’ve been teaching sailing to young people and some adults for over 80 years. Our young people have gone on to be lifetime sailors, be selected for college sailing teams, run one Olympic sailing qualification campaign, buy ocean going boats and cruise far and wide.
As our membership changes from time to time it is good to make sure we all know what a special opportunity our sailing lesson program is for kids 8 through 18. This year that opportunity is even more special because we have a nationally recognized sailing program director with decades of experience teaching young people: Mike Horn.
TPYC offers lessons in sailing, swimming, and tennis. Lessons are held from late June through mid-August and are open to both members and non-members. Sailing lessons are available in 2 week session blocks. Children can sign up for one, two or all three sessions. There is a bonus session without charge in August that is open to all students from prior sessions. See the schedule link and sailing flyer below for details. Some scholarship assistance is available for sailing lessons. For More Information or questions email lessons@TaylorPondYachtClub.com or call/text 207-200-1660
TPYC also offers a program called Kids Discover Sailing (KDS). This is an introductory sailing experience for young children aged 7-8 to try sailing before signing up for longer classes. It runs June 19-23. If you’ve never sailed, you may want to consider this answer to the question of “why sail?” by TPYC member and lifelong sailor Peter Garcia.
Swimming and tennis lessons run from June 26 through August 11 at particular times and days. See the schedule link below for details.
Website themes control the following elements of your website:
- Master layouts
- Default colors, shapes, and shades
- Default site background and background image library
- Text style choices in the content editor (e.g. Heading 1, Heading 2)
- ArtText choice in the content editor (e.g. Site title 1, Page heading 1)
- Customization options that appear on the Colors and Styles screen
- Menu location (vertical or horizontal) and whether the menu is static or dynamic (fly-out)
- Orientation of the log in form gadget (horizontal or vertical)
- Matching visual styles in online forms
You can, at any time, switch to a different theme. You can choose from a number of professionally designed themes in a variety of styles and colors.
Theme examples
Bookshelf and Whiteboard themes
The Bookshelf and Whiteboard themes are fully responsive – aka mobile friendly. Sites that use Bookshelf and Whiteboard themes automatically scale their contents to fit properly on different sized screens, including mobile devices.
Whiteboard is the default theme assigned to your site when you create a new account. The Bookshelf theme has a simple but modern design featuring rounded edges and shadows. It was designed with library and teacher associations in mind, but can be used by any type of organization. The Whiteboard theme set is a simpler version of the Bookshelf theme set. There is more white space, and no shadows or gradients. The gadget styles are simpler, with fewer styles to choose from. It makes for a great starting point for a fully customized yet responsive site.
The colors and styles used by these themes can be fully customized from the Colors and Styles screen.
Fiesta and Blueprint themes
Both of these sets are series of themes designed for business and trade associations but can be used by any type of organization, particularly if you want to take advantage of their "sticky placeholder" feature. Using this feature, you can place a menu or logo within a non-scrolling area at the top of the page or within the sidebar, and it will remain in position as you scroll through the rest of the page. The Blueprint theme set also features a Promo text style with a transparent background and drop shadow that provides a clean yet dramatic effect when placed on top of background graphics.
Two approaches to theme design:
Customizable gadget styles vs more gadget style options
versus
Clean Lines, White Space, and Dark Impact theme sets were designed to be very flexible by allowing you to change the color of every gadget. You can change the gadget background, font, titles, and link styles, and choose from gadget styles that you can customize yourself. The Treehouse theme set uses a different approach. While we do not give you the ability to change the colors of gadgets, we do provide more then 30 prepared styles to choose from. This way, you can be sure that your gadgets share the same look and feel. Which way is better? That is for our customers to decide. We see that both customization approaches are popular, so we will use both in our feature themes.