Hello everyone!
A brief update on some changes to the website, and other news.
Front Page Changes
You might have noticed (how could you not?) the spiffy rotating news gallery on the front page. Hopefully this will highlight important announcements etc.
Speaking of announcements, two items to bring those more to the top of the heap: Announcements now has its own menu tab, and its own place in the gallery on the front page. (If you have something for the website, Announcement or otherwise, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and please leave me at least four days to post it).
New Logon Request Form
I've revamped the method by which you can request a logon ID and password. It's now a form which does not require that you have an email program on your computer.
Church Member Contacts Through the Website
Slowly I am adding to the list of people that you can contact through our secure, "never shows the email addresses" website forms. If you would like to be included in this project to make it easier for us to contact each other, please use my form to send me an email. Please note that if you have your email on the website already, unless it is a @uuwinnipeg.mb.ca address, I will make a contact form for you and remove the email from the web article.
The benefits to this system:
- By default email addresses are always hidden so this is a much safer method of making emailing each other available on/from the website (rather than posting the email address directly, which can produce unwanted advertising email, or, "spam").
- You can have access to emailing any member from any public computer, even at the library.
- If your email address changes, I only have to update it in one place, so the possibility of "old" and incorrect emails lingering on our site is eliminated.
- If you go to a UU conference or other event, you can point people you meet there to this site in order to contact you, rather than handing out your emails.
My goal is to have all our membership that uses email on this system by the end of 2012. Let me know what you think of this initiative.
Tag Cloud
We are starting to add "meta tags" or "keywords" to each article, to populate the Tag Cloud (in the right or left sidebar). Click on a keyword that interests you and see other articles that share the same keyword. Please note that this is not the same as the search bar, at the top right of the site banner, which is by far a better tool for searching for content on the site.
Upcoming Store
This spring we will see a store on our website, featuring our fabulous sweatshirts, some books and CDs, and of course our rockin' new chalice jewelry, unique to us in all of Canada the world. Stay tuned!
Peace,
Karin
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