Discussion items--stuff to talk about or figure out:
How to move links to the links archive?
Found they have to be manually copied. Pages and modules can be moved, and announcements can be manually copied pretty easily, but links have to be handled manually. The only exception is copying the whole links module, which we haven't tried.
Rocketry pictures on facebook--there is a White Pines UMC facebook page, Mike Halifax and I are admins for it (and Amanda Williams--I'm hoping she'll post a profile picture). In looking for pictures to post to it, all I really found handy were rocketry ones so I posted some of those. Is that ok?
Yes, it's fine--these are all pictures we took so there are no copyright issues, etc.
The CHAOS group asked for a way to count people hitting individual web pages, especially the main CHAOS page. The logging isn't working (I opened a support ticket with webhost4life to try to get them to fix it, but no luck so far). What other options do we have?
The webhost4life folks did a restore and got this working. The CHAOS page is high on the hit count list, but then Patsy has been updating it a lot.
Donation link on the web page--Jeff may look at doing this through vanco services (update--they're expensive, how about Paypal? Do we still want to do this?).
Paypal also charges for business accounts. We don't want to do anything that has a cost associated with it.
Decide what pages on the web site can be archived to clean things up. We had planned to check page visit counts, but that's not working right now.
The page visit counts are working again now. For the last few days, which is all we have, the CHAOS page, the Home Page, and the sermon page are the top pages. Patsy plans to move some of the links to clean things up.
Revise Weekly Worship Leaders and Support Teams web form was on the agenda before--what needs to be done with this?
It's no longer used, as we have reduced the number of people serving and standardized the schedule, let's hide it for now.
Discuss the role of laptop operator and use of laptop/projector in worship (ongoing discussion).
Figure a way to store and share photos--google group? Snapfish now has something called group rooms, has anyone tried it yet? How are we (mostly Patsy) dealing with the problem now? Picasa has a 1Gb(?) limit. Most sites without limits have no security. Any ideas? How many Gb of images do we have now?
A number of different people have stacks of CDs. Smilebox movies are useful. We didn't find any other (cheap) solution.
Figure out what to do with the different groups and how to promote them. So far we have multiple google groups, at least one yahoo group, a group on facebook, and probably some stuff on photo sites and cafe press. I just created a blog on Google's blogger.com, which ties the URL whitepinesumc.blogspot.com to my name and probably means only I can post to it. That might be a bad thing since we might want Pastor Jeff or someone to post to it. Do we want to keep a list of these groups? Do we want to put links to them on the web site? Jeff has a blogger.com blog of his own, and he has copied the blog on the whitepinesumc.org site to it so it's in both places. Other items from this deferred to next meeting.
Set next meeting--we had moved to the second Monday of the month since the praise team wanted to rehearse music on the first Monday, unfortunately there are conflicts with the second Monday too. Next month things will be different because there probably won't be room in the new Welcome Center for the Praise Team to rehearse.
We will try for the first Monday next month again.
Action items--stuff to work on:
Fix all the web pages that turned orange.
Done.
Update our worship time/location on the UMC web site--Jeff is working on this
Checked umc.org, it's fine. It would be nice to include another zip code.
Put our mailing address in the contacts on the web page. Perhaps the PO box should be used--Jeff working on this.
Done.
Put a copy of the peanut allergy information that includes the name and a printable copy of the original document in the subscribers area of the web site.
Eliminate the telephone2 column from the contacts (or use it) if possible
Need 6 master logos--colored side by side, colored tree logo over, and tree only (versions--black and white, white background, and transparent background)--not done yet, though we have the black and white ones. Jeff will talk to the sign company when we order the new signs so on hold until then.
Need smaller versions of these logos, with multiple colors, that can be sized smaller for the web site (on hold as above).
Calendar logo not working - look into changing the logo size and possibly changing our web hosting for the logo, images work best if they are on a white background and are no larger than 200 pixels wide and 110 pixels high--on hold until we get hosting that can supply the logo.
Revamp the directory page
Make the directory info easier to find
Move the pictures to another page?
Move the leadership info to another page?
Update the online directory--ongoing, updated 10/13/08
Clean up Thunderbird on Welcome Center desktop--ongoing
Need to make sure work email addresses are out of MembershipPlus and Thunderbird. We probably need to keep a list of them (like a do not call list) since they keep creeping back in.
Check web site for other problems, there are lots
Google group--Patsy set one up, Charlie needs to confirm his ID. :)
Add more links to quick links, test web site without javascript.
Many updates to brochures, flyers, and other advertising material--Patsy is doing great on this stuff! Ongoing.
Check on mobile version of web site, see swerve.lifechurch.tv (the old version of dotnetnuke had a way to make some modules not show up on mobile devices, not sure if the new one does--any announcements about worship cancellation due to weather should certainly show up!)
Make it possible to click for directions using the map on the web page, perhaps by replacing it with an embedded google map in an iframe (note that not all browsers support iframes, javascript, etc.)
Hide the Weekly Worship Leaders and Support Teams page.
Check the Meijer Rewards information.
Clean up/archive unused links and pages on the web site.
Test the monitors at the Welcome Center.
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Charlie, as always, excellent work in documentation and organization. I think this will be a good collaborative approach to our Web Team work.
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