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Agenda:
Report
on Diocesan E-mail
lists and list management;
web redesign;
web trends
Web Update
Web Workshop
Diocese/Parish Webmaster Support - Should we develope
a webmaster listserv - Should we create a Tips for Webmaster
page - This would include the District webpages
Subdomain Management - Formalize - Improve communications
between Diocese and the Host
the Newark listserve,
Michigan's group forums,
convention post evaluation,
Microsoft Access.
Web
Workshop:
About 5 or 6 congregations registered and consultants.
We need copies of Dreamweaver for MAC. Regisrations
are coming in.
Web
Page Redesign:
John said that we've got a start. Susan is going to
go through the menu to make sure everything is covered
and the words for the cruciform. Russ pointed out that
the window floated the words and shifted according to
the size, so John will put them on an image. After this
last read-through we'll be ready to go. Susan wanted
the cruciform words for the outsider. Susan commends
the Diocese of Michigan site for reveiw. No one on the
staff other than Paul has seen the previews. The decision
was to make sure that everything is in place before
the rest of the staff sees it.
There
was a discussion of making a spreadsheet of all of the
pages and where they are. It may make it possible to
eliminate some pages without losing the content. After
we've got the green light from on high we can use a
template and a bunch of us will be able to help port
the stuff in. The left column menu will all be the same
on all pages. Our next meeting would be the kick-off.
Webmasters
Russ says that there are 2 types of web masters. We
need to make some things available to help them out.
We could build a web site for the webmasters to provide
resources. This would include the district webmasters.
Tips, stuff we've learned....expand what is already
there and make it more visible and user friendly. Russ
will do it. John says it is useful and ought to branch
off the java menu off communications.
We
may want one or 2 e-mail lists for webmasters to communicate
with them, additionally so that folks will need to check
the web. One list should be sufficient. It should go
under communications.
Subdomain
Management
No one but Steve knows how to do it. It needs to be
centralized and someone needs to keep a list of all
of the passwords. Jan recommended that we keep the file
of passwords, etc on-line so that it won't get lost
in someone's computer crash.
Agreed:
e-mail and e-mail list management comes out of Episcopal
House; subdomain managment is Russ (as he takes it on
from Steve).
Contribute
is available. We need a little seminar. It will be then
possible for us to train staff to update pages without
ftp. 2-3 hours workshop. After Easter.
Access
Nina is looking at what Michael sent out about Access.
Russ has used applications based on Access. Michael
also gave a copy to Gerry Hazel, who worked at a University.
Michael and Johanna have read through it and they will
not be meeting with the person for a week or so. Russ
wants to talk with the Parish Soft first, because he
says we may not need both. They may have another solution
that is ready off the shelf today and not have to do
the development. Meanwhile, Russ will look at the Access
proposal.
Convention
There is a planning meeting at the end of March. We're
moving to a new hotel. John mentioned the request for
4 projectors next year. (Parsippany Hilton)
Diocesan
E-mail
Someone called megapath and blacklisted our e-mail,
so cpg had to call megapath and have the blacklist removed.
Johanna thought about having cpg just handle the e-mail.
Some isp's may think that cpg is a spam sender and may
be blocked. One criteria is volume of traffic. They're
testing not using megapath. Rick Peete said he thought
Microsoft Exchange might be more trouble than it is
worth.
Listservs
There is another discussion list - Louie's list. Things
on newark@epicom seem to be quieted down. Down the road,
there are ways to handle this, but it would have some
cost. We could set up a domain and then contract with
databack to manage any lists you wanted to have for
that. It is about $600/yr per list. We could have a
newarkcom.org and have whatever we want.
Michigan's
Group Forums
John checked them out. They've created a subdomain and
they've got chatrooms. "Powered by phpbb"
Lynne was talking about having something like this.
It is running on their server - edomi Susan will put
that in her pipe.
Web
Trends
Susan is working with Dennis.
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