December 2015

MQHR Website Committee Meeting 12-20-2015

Members present: John Mitchell, Tony Kernan, Jim Fritz, Otto Pichowski, and Joseph Groves

Tony opened the meeting with prayer and a reading from Luke 3:15-18.

First item on the agenda, was discussion of the menus and what should go under them.  Jim suggested that there should be a link on the homepage to the service opportunities' index page.  John suggested that we shouldn't have the mega menu for the service opportunities, and should just link the service opportunities to the index page for the service opportunities.

Tony updated the homepage to include a link to the service opportunities on the home page.

John suggested that the news menu should be a menu under the "About Us" menu.  He also suggested that the "News" menu should then be changed to "Homilies", since homilies are the most visited page on our old website.

Tony and John agreed that the bulletins should be under the "About Us" menu.

John suggested that the minutes for the parish committees should be under the pages for the committees instead of the "News" menu.  John also suggested that any items under the "News" menu, should only be items that are currently happening.

The committee agreed that the meeting minutes for each committee will go under that particular committee's page.

Tony removed the "News" menu from the navigation menu.

Tony suggested we create a link to the daily Mass schedule under the "Mass times" page.  The committee also suggested having a link to the holy days of obligation on the page as well.

The committee agreed to put information about Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration under the "About Us" menu.

The committee agreed that all internal links on the website should open in the user's existing window, instead of in a new tab.  The committee also agreed to make all external links open in a new tab.

The committee agreed to include the funeral guidelines on the website.

John suggested we should have a link to May Queen's school and to the Diocese's website.  Tony updated the website to include both.

Committee agreed to put a link under the "About Us" menu to external links.  The committee agreed to discus the external links at the next meeting.  The committee agreed that we currently have too many.

The committee agreed to fix the issue of the daily prayer not showing up on the website for certain browsers, to store the txt for the prayer on the website's server instead of Dropbox.

Edward was able to fix the translate bar issue on mobile devices, by updating some of the styling on the website.

The next item Tony suggested the committee should review for the website,  is the material we have migrated to the website and it being aligned with the committee's style guide.

Jim suggested that the style guide should be updated, and then he can go back through the website to make sure it is consistent with the style guide.

The committee agreed to move the pdf files from Dropbox to the new website's server.

Until the next meeting, the members of the committee are going to look at their sections and make sure they match the style guide.

The group agreed to schedule the next meeting for January 17th, 2016.

last updated 01/02/2016