Saturday, June 14, 2008

New Church Website

The world is changing, there is no doubt about it! For the past few years our church has had a web presence; after all, in today's technologically driven world, it is simply a must. In an effort to keep up with the demand for information and to connect to folks as they are touring us before they ever show up at our door, we wanted to improve our site. While there is still much that can be done (and hopefully will be done in the future!), we have officially taken our first step and launched our new site design.

As many of you already know, when you work with a small to mid-sized church, your resources are limited. We have had to make use of programs that the webmasters have available to them, free space that our larger church structure provides for us, and free slide show makers, etc. In other words, everything is being done free and in house---a potentially dangerous combination! Although there have been space and other limitations and a learning curve that is practically vertical, in the end we think that we have come up with a more functional and informative site than we have had in the past.

I want to invite you to take a look around our new site...explore it fully...then I want to invite you to leave comments, kudos, constructive criticism, etc that will help us improve our site in the areas of functionality and communication.

Please keep in mind that we don't yet have the resources to go to a paid for pro web service that hosts and designs your site...with that in mind, if you have suggestions of things that can improve the site, we would be most capable of utilizing resources that are currently free (although we will explore ideas that require additional funding)...so if you can make suggestions regarding flash players, slide show producers, etc for our low cost budget, that would be awesome.

To check out our site, go to www.edomumc.org

Thanks in advance and blessings,

Russell

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