My new Assoc/Youth pastor Sherwin Rulloda just finished our new web page. I think he did a great job and it has a lot of functionality. What do you think? Have we missed anything?
http://www.marysvillenaz.org/
This is also a new URL. The old one had the world Nazarene in it which no one can spell and a dash.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
No comments on the website at this point, but if you haven't already thought of your old domain name...
I would encourage you to maintain ownership of your old domain name as long as reasonably possible. You want to prevent a domain squatter from grabbing it and using it for unsavory purposes... (which I've seen happen when churches allow domain names to expire).
I would keep it for a minimum of 3 years. For the first year, I would automatically redirect it to your new URL. For the next year, I would put up a redirect page that tells them the new address, and redirects them after 30 seconds. And for the third year, I would park it somewhere, completely disconnected from your new domain.
After that, you could consider letting it go.
$30 is pretty cheap insurance against a squatter immediately grabbing your domain.
Grace and Peace,
Jon Twitchell
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Thanks Jon, I had thought about the first year but not years 2 and 3. I think we will do this. We are having a little trouble getting control of our old domain. The folks that hosted the website also register the name. They do not give a phone number only an e-mail and they are not returning our e-mails. The web hosting portion ran out last week and we want to do a redirect but can't get them to respond. I think they know we are changing hosts and are not very interested in helping us.Originally Posted by Jon Twitchell
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I think it looks good. What platform is it being ran on? Just curious.
I like the welcome video, too. Well done.
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I like it, too Craig. In particular I like that it all can be seen on almost one screen without scrolling down to see more of the opening page (would be nice to make it all in one screen but that may be nit-picking). It appears to have everything on the home page that someone would come looking for. I might use drop down menus that carry the content of each section (About us, Ministries, etc.).
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You just need a bigger monitor/screenI don't have to scroll to see it all on my 15". What tiny monitor are you using?
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived. - Shane Claiborne
Uhhh, 13"... but it's set to a resolution that should be pretty compatible. Yeah, it comes closer to fitting on my 19" at home, too.
So, I'm nit-picking.
A quick look at the source.... It appears to be Joomla.
Code:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" > <Title>Marysville Church of the Nazarene</Title> <head> <base href="http://www.marysvillenaz.org/" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="keywords" content="joomla, Joomla" /> <meta name="description" content="Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system" /> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
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I think that is right. I remember Sherwin talking about this.
Ryan - Thanks for the commit on the Welcome video. We purchased that but we are thinking about seeking permission to do it over with our own people. It is pretty powerful but I think would be a lot more powerful if when someone visited they saw people from the video. It is on our video production "project" list.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Oh, I just assumed it was your people. I agree that it would be more powerful if it was your people, but yeah, still good.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived. - Shane Claiborne
Coming in late, but here's a quick take on it....
I like the look of the pages - great masthead of the mountains...
The slide show right in the middle of the page distracts me a bit -- it's hard for me to look at the other information because the slideshow keeps changing, drawing my eye back to it -- personally, I'd rather see text there - a word of welcome with a static photo representative of the congregation, etc.
Across the top there are tabs. You click on the tabs, and then go to pages with links to different pages on the site. It seems to me that making those tabs drop down menus that take you directly to the page in one click would work better than making the user click, read, and then click again.
I got fooled by the "Encounter, Connect, Serve" words in the masthead - I thought they were links
The "New Here" section is very good - lots of helpful information - could probably just move the address and map link to that section too
I'm not sure about the message the "Online Giving" links (two of them on the main page) convey to the visitor - that's a lot of emphasis on money for a person who's thinking about visiting the church (I may be just nitpicking at this point)
Anyway - it's an attractive site with lots of information. For what it's worth -- I'd rate it at "pretty good."
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