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Website Documentation
Site Map
Some day the entire list below will be a separate file in case a user
(or the webmaster) gets lost.
This is the master plan for how the website is set up.
It will list all the HTML files that one can read from the web address (i.e. the menu).
It will list all the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files to change how things appear.
It will list the Javascript (JS) files that are available.
It does not list the so-called content of the site.
- About Us will basically be the first file a user will see when she gets into the website
- Welcome should contain a nice welcome letter from Sudduth
- What's New is where the announcements go
- Our Mission will list the vision and mission statement of the parish
- Our History will contain a short history of how the parish came to be.
- Contact Us will contain contact info (duh?)
- Directions is very important. It will tell you how to get to the church.
- Ministries
- Daily Worship Schedule will contain a schedule of when services are.
- Server Schedule will contain a quarterly schedule with the warning that it will not be up to date
- Our Pastoral Staff will contain pictures and bios of each member of the pastoral staff.
- Our Lay Leadership will list names of the vestry. What will follow this will also be the names
of the Music Minister, Parish Administrator, and Sexton, and other relevant folks.
- Sermons will have an archive of past sermons
- Community: each part of our Christian Ed program will get its webpage.
- Outreach: likewise each of the activities below gets its own webpage.
- Links will list links to Christian resources that may be useful. A bulleted list will suffice.
- Scripts
- date.js is the code for listing the date which is displayed above the pic of the church
- menu.js is the guts for the dropdown menu. Leave this file alone. Change the next 2 if you want to customize.
- menu_items.js lists each of the entries in the dropdown menu. There is no limit to the depth with which you can go down.
- menu_tpl.js sets the size of the menu widgets.
- menu.css and stjohn.css are CSS files that set the appearance of the site.
menu-blue.css, menu-red.css, menu-green.css and the like are alternative
versions of menu.css to change the appearance of the website wrt liturgical season. Simply
copy the desired version into menu.css to change the appearance.
Unfortunately, I have not yet figured out how to handle Christmas and Easter since the
liturgical colors of gold and white are not exactly easy to make look good.
- Img is a directory containing all the pictures. To save space, do not upload PSD files.
The template for this webpage has modified somewhat the template from Tigra Menu v2.0 - Demo 6,
which was designed by Soft Complex.
It is available free of charge.
It contains a Javascript dropdown menu.
For the record, see the directory entitled demo6.
History
Numbered List looks like this (keep it here so that you can test a CSS):
- Bonnie Turner designed and maintained the previous version of the church website.
- On May 2007, Alan Wong designed the version utilizing as its base code Tigra Menu v2.0 (Demo 6).
Call this phase of the website's developement: Tigra.
It also uses Cascading Style Sheets and Javascript code. The Javascript code powers a dropdown menu.
Future Changes
For the next phase of the website, I would like to make it dynamic.
Many commercial websites like amazon.com, newspapers, and so forth are dynamic like this.
You would need to use Apache, PHP and MySQL to generate the website from the server-side.
Some reasons for doing this is to have extra features: we could run a blog, store the information that
the website is trying to display in the MySQL database, run an email list, allow
portal customizations like MyYahoo, and so forth.
Ideally, this website should allow someone to log in from a browser and "maintain" website by upgrading
certain content such as announcements and all that.
Before we chase this down, ask Phil Turner what the ISP will let us do.
We need to know: what operating system is running server side? whether it already
has Apache, PHP and MySQL? Whether the ISP will let you install such?
ECCLESIA
"Ecclesia Structure and Goals" sets up an overall plan for the many activities performed by our church's ministries
- Evangelism and Outreach
- To bring the gospel to the unreached and uncommitted in our parish and the greater New Haven and university communities
- To promote and support the spread of the gospel in the world
- To help visitors and newcomers assimilate into the church
- Activities: Alpha, Special Events (e.g. Author's Roundtable), Newcomers Task Force, Inquirers Class, Missions
- Care
- To encourage the well-being and spiritual maturity of everyone in our parish
- To enable healthy relaitonships in marriages, families, friendships and the congregation as a whole, as members of the Body of Christ
- Activities: Pastoral Counseling, Women's Ministry (Bible Study), Men's Ministry, Small Groups, Monday Night Bible Study, Spiritual Direction, Fellowship (Coffee Hour, Special Parish Gatherings)
- Community service
- To serve the needs of our neighborhood and larger community as a place of hospitality
- To help meet the physical needs of the poor in the greater New Haven area
- Activities: Toddler Tunes, Cofee House, Clothes Drive, Light & Peace, Food Pantry, Discretionary Fund
- Leadership development
- To strengthen existing leadership ministries
- To provide opporutnities to develop and mature as new ministries of all ages
- To equip leaders for the work of ministry and service
- Activities: Vestry, Interns & Seminarians, Task Force/Committee Leadership, Support for Clergy, Ministry Heads Colloquium (meeting 2-3 times a year)
- Education
- To offer Christian education for all ages and levels (fully staffed)
- To provide adequate space for all of our educational activities
- Activities: Adult Sunday School, Chidlren's Sunday School, Youth Group, Kid's Club, Confirmation Classes, Literature & Materials (Parish Library)
- Stewardship
- To fund fully all of our personnel, building & program needs
- To develop resources for both short- and long-term goals
- To educate the congregation in principles of stewardship
- Activities: Stewardship Task Force (Annual Giving/Annual Drive, Capital Giving for the Undercroft Project, Planned Giving), Special Fundraisers (Tag Sale, Plant Sale, Craft & Bake Sale)
- Inspiration
- To provide Spirit-inspried worship, vitality and refershment, and biblical preaching
- Sunday Worship: Celebrants, Liturgical Assistants, Music (Choir, Communion), Altar Guild, Greeters & Readers, Prayers of the People, Acolytes
- Other activities: Children's Church, Special Events (Advent & Lent Quiet Days, Retreats)
- Administration
- To establish fully-funded and fully-staffed church office
- To give ongoing, efficient financial oversight
- To develop and maintain a balanced budget
- To develop and maintain building and grounds
- Activities
- Office & Personnel: Staff Oversight, Communications (paper & electronic, website)
- Building & Grounds: Undercroft Construction Oversight Team, Maintenance & Upkeep, Lawn & Garden
- Organizational Oversight: Clergy & Vestry
- Financial Oversight Committee: Treasurer (Payroll and Accounting; part-time accountant), Collection (Counting and Deposits), Investments, Designated Funds, Budget
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