Mary Queen Web Committee 3 - 10 – 2014
Members present: Joseph Groves, John Mitchell, Ed Shuman, Tony Kernan, Otto Piechowski, and Jim Fritz.
Meeting started out with John Mitchell leading the group in prayer and a reflection over Mathew 4:1 -11.
Group then discussed having a banner on the youth’s webpage.
-Group considered if we have a banner on one page, should we have one on all pages.
-Group decided we shouldn’t have a banner on all pages. Only on those pages that may need one.
-John mentioned the possibility of having a changing banner on the youth page.
-Group considered if we should have a banner on the youth page, based on the responses we’ve got on it. Group decided to allow Edward to contact Angie to get some photos that pertain to the youth and create a new banner.
Group then got an update on Otto’s blog.
-Otto reported that John helped him set up his blog.
-He displayed his blog to the group at the meeting.
-As of right now Otto has multiple articles on his blog. He is already starting to receive comments on his articles.
-His blog is currently being mentioned in the bulletin and linked from the Mary Queen website.
-We hope to have his blog linked from Mary Queen’s Facebook page in the future.
Group then discussed whether any links to documents or external websites should open in a new webpage or tab.
-Group discussed if we should handle external website links different than document links.
-Group agreed they could see opening external website links in the same window versus documents.
-Comments were made that it is more standard for the user to click an external website’s link and not have it open in a new window. We also considered the user of the website, and we didn’t want to constantly be opening new tabs for them all the time.
-A suggestion was made that for documents, it is nice to have them come up in a new tab/window because it helps the user get back to where they were on the website. Group decided that this wasn’t really the case, since the user can just hit the back button on their browser. The group did note that when a document is brought up in the browser, the short cut for going back a page is disabled.
-Group agreed that in the future we are going to make all links open in the user’s current window.
-Group agreed to be consistent on the website and have all the old links that open in a new tab to be changed. Edward agreed to work on all the ones under ministries. Tony agreed to look over the following sections: Bulletins, Electronic Giving, Homilies, and Liturgy Schedule.
Jim agreed to record the homily for March 15 – 16th.
Group agreed on the next meeting to be on April 13th at 7:00 pm.
Meeting was closed in prayer lead by John.
last updated 03/11/2014 jm
