MQHR Website Committee Meeting - 8-09-2015
Members present: John Mitchell, Joseph Groves, Tony Kernan, Otto Pichowski, and Jim Fritz
Meeting opened with prayer and discussion lead by Tony.
Tony reported he is continuing to update the slides, homilies, and daily prayer on the website. John mentioned that we have missed a few homilies and that the hits on the homilies are going down.
Jim reported that all the broken links and changes in the Time and Talent Directory are updated.
Otto mentioned that his blog has had a few people comment on his blog.
John handed out information on changing our website and our website hits being down from last year. July's web hits were down 20% from last year. It will cost us $50.00 a month and $12.00 a year to go with eCatholic to host a new website for us.
Walter told us that the Communications Committee has a budget of $1,000.00 a year. The next step for us is having the Communications Committee approve the funds for the website. If the Communications Committee approve the funds, the Web Committee would then have 3 months on eCatholic to start bilding the new website and decide if they want to proceed with using eCatholic.
The new website on eCatholic would be able to use version 5 of their content management system, which will allow us to make our website mobile friendly. With the new website we would also have unlimited storage.
The Web Committee looked at some examples of websites built with eCatholic.
Web Committee discussed before starting, that there needs to be a commitment to work on the website from the Committee before proceeding. The results from the discussion were: Tony was elected in as the new Website Committee Leader. Edward and Joseph agreed to help build the website. Jim agreed to help with testing and migrating information from the old website to the new website.
From the commitments, the committee agreed to take this motion to the Communications Committee. John will be contacting Jill and Ron about the motions.
Next meeting is scheduled September 13th @ 7:00pm.
Meeting was closed by John leading the group in prayer.
ADDENDUM:
Tony & John met with the Communications Committee on August 17th where our request for funds to support the development of a new website for the church with eCatholic.com was approved.
last updated 08/19/2015 jm
