The Communications Committee has started a project to update this website. This is a log of the actions to date, plus a list of actions requested but not yet completed. To suggest changes or to comment on anything else about the website, contact Julius Ariail by email: <julius.ariail@gmail.com>.
Completed
April 17, 2024 | Added a photograph of Deacon Sartin reading the Gospel to the Ministries page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
April 17, 2024 | Updated the diocesan youth programs link on the Links page, and deleted the entry about young adult programs until I can find an updated site. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/links-to-episcopal-internet-sites/
April 9, 2024 | Added office open hours of 9 am – 2 pm to Monday-Thursday on calendar.
April 9, 2024 | Added Sunday School to the calendar and set it to end on May 18. Added the same note to both Nursery and Sunday School to explain what happens when.
April 7, 2024 | Deleted the position announcement for the administrative assistant; put a placeholder “image not available” graphic on the staff section for administrative assistant; https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
April 3, 2024 | Edited the Holy Week schedule on the Worship page to include only the streamed services with their links and online bulletins (if available). https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/.
April 2, 2024 | Disabled the Holy Week schedule on both the home page https://www.christchurchvaldosta.org and the Worship page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/. Saved that page in case it might be useful in the future as a way to review those recorded services.
March 31, 2024 | Changed the banner image on the home page to Easter. https://www.christchurchvaldosta.org
March 28, 2024 | Changed the banner image on the home page to one for Maundy Thursday, palms on cross black and white https://www.christchurchvaldosta.org
March 22, 2024 | Replaced existing Holy Week schedule with a more complete one from today’s Friday Vineyard https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/
March 22, 2024 | Removed the online calendar from public view since it is not being updated. Referred calendar visitors to the home page static calendar display or to a recent newsletter. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/daily-word-of-grace/archive/news-2023-and-older/calendar/
March 17, 2024 | Added Jeri-Lyn Flowers’ new photograph to the Clergy & Staff webpage as Director of College Ministry https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
February 26, 2024 | Corrected a typo in the ad for admin assistant https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/ and https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/positions-available/
February 26, 2024 | Added Happening staff photograph from 02/25 to the Children & Youth page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/ministries/children-and-youth/ and the Ministries Guide page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
February 23, 2024 | Uploaded revised position announcement for admin assistant to these pages: https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/ and https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/positions-available/
February 21, 2024 | Added Ashes to go and Camellia garden photographs on the Ministries Guide page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
February 19, 2024 | Changed the banner photograph on the home page. https://www.christchurchvaldosta.org
February 19, 2024 | Added new photos of HEP luncheon and A/V streaming crew to the Ministries Guide page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
February 14, 2024 | Updated several areas on the Publications page — The Friday Vineyard, older Vineyard issues, Welcome Card. Added a new area for Parish Profiles and added links to August 2013n and August 2022. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/publications/
February 14, 2024 | Deactivated plugin WPForms-Lite to see if that was causing the bug in the Menu update function. At first glance, success. Wil keep it deactivated and try again later today and then tomorrow to see if this bug fix is permanent.
February 14, 2024 | Added the February 9 Friday Vineyard link to the 2024 News page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/news-2/2024-2/
February 13, 2024 | Deleted the Smart Slider 3 plugin that was causing the Menu function to work erratically. Deleted the slide show on the home page that had been active several months ago but was placed in the background after a new cover image was added.
February 6, 2024 | On the Clergy & Staff page, changed the title of one vacant position to “Administrative Assistant” and added a link to the position announcement and job description. Also added a new page, Positions Available, under Clergy & Staff, and put the Administrative Assistant announcement and description there along with another entry for the vacant Director of College Ministry position. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/positions-available/
February 1, 2024 | Added the Sunday Bulletin link for February 4, 2024, to the right-hand column widget section.
February 1, 2024 | Reactivated the Calendar page and made the experimental Google Calendar visible. Added notes that it is experimental only and how to get a list view from the calendar template view. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/news-2023-and-older/calendar/
January 31, 2024 | Added links to the images on the clergy/staff page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
January 31, 2024 | Moved the website copyright notice to the bottom of Widget footer #2.
January 31, 2024 | Added the January 26 Friday Vineyard to the News 2024 section (had forgotten to do it on the 26th). https://christchurchvaldosta.org/news-2/2024-2/
January 28, 2024 | Replaced photo of 2024 Vestry members with a new one that includes everyone. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/vestry/
January 24, 2024 | Moved PMO and Preschool out from under Christian Education and into subcategories under Ministries
January 24, 2024 | Added a photograph of Cursillo to the Christian Education – Adult page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/christian-education/adults/
January 24, 2024 | Added a photograph to the Donate page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/donate/
January 24, 2024 | Added a new footer area with the Episcopal shield and the seal of the Diocese of Georgia along with text saying that we are a parish church in the Diocese of Georgia. As a footer area, this will show up on every page within the website.
January 23, 2024 | Added a banner photograph to the Worship page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/
January 23, 2024 | Updated the map displayed on the Location page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/directions/
January 22, 2024 | Fixed several spacing errors on the home page that made too much white space appear.
January 22, 2024 | Corrected a typo on the College ministry page.
January 22, 2024 | Fixed a bug that was causing the menu to appear in several inappropriate places.
January 22, 2024 | Added photographs of the Vestry members as of December 2023 and January 2024 to the Vestry page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/vestry/
January 22, 2024 | Added new photograph of children and attendants in nursery to the Children and Youth page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/ministries/children-and-youth/
January 21, 2024 | Fixed a bug that was preventing the menu area from showing up on tablets and smartphones. https://www.christchurchvaldosta.org
January 20, 2024 | Added diocesan summer camp information to the Children & Youth page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/ministries/children-and-youth/
January 20, 2024 | Added a sidebar to the Privacy Policy page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/archives/privacy-policy-notice/
January 20, 2024 | Added a sidebar to the History page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/archives/history/
January 20, 2024 | Attempted to add a sidebar to the Recordings page, but could not figure out how to do that given the amount of information on that page. Will try again later. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/recordings-2/
January 20, 2024 | Re-edited the Dave Clark Habitat page to eliminate duplicate photographs and add sidebar panel @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/habitat-for-humanity-dave-clark-house/
January 19, 2024 | Moved the Donate page to the Divi text plus sidebar default format @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/donate/
January 19, 2024 | Added Evening Prayer at 5:30 pm Mondays to the Worship page. Need to add description of Evening Prayer. Deleted Holy Eucharist on Wednesdays @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/
January 19, 2024 | Changed color of links in footer areas from gray to blue
January 19, 2024 | Reformatted the Clergy and Staff page into a 2×2 grid design @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
January 19, 2024 | Added “St. Nicholas Visit” to the list of special events in Christian Education – Children and Youth
January 19, 2024 | Updated the content of the Ministries Guide page @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
January 19, 2024 | Added Cursillo to the Adult education page @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/christian-education/adults/
January 18, 2024 | Fixed the bug that was preventing links displaying in color in the Sidebar widget.
January 18, 2024 | Inserted new draft text on Ministries – Christian Education – Adults page.
January 18, 2024 | Inserted new draft content on Ministries – Christian Education – Children and Youth page,
January 18, 2024 | Converted these pages to the Divi text plus sidebar design: Sunday School, Episcopal Youth Community (EYC), Vacation Bible School, Parents’ Morning Out, Preschool Program. Deleted old content on Sunday School, Episcopal Youth Community (EYC), and Vacation Bible School pages.
January 17, 2024 | Changed the Divi programming on the Worship page to use the sidebar module.
January 17, 2024 | Added the new Friday Vineyard header that incorporates the new church logo design to the webpage with the links to the 2024 Friday Vineyard issues.
January 17, 2024 | Changed the programming on the Web maintenance log page to use the Divi templates.
January 16, 2024 | Added link for the church’s Instagram account to the bottom of the home page. Links for Facebook, YouTube, and the recordings webpage are already there.
January 16, 2024 | Added photographs and OCR image to the College page.
January 15, 2024 | Added Fr. Weidman’s “welcome” message to the home page. Redesign of home page still pending.
January 14, 2024 | Deleted the old content on the College page and added new text content. Waiting on a set of image files to be added there next.
January 12, 2024 | Deleted the older “Our Latest News” sidebar area and replaced it with a new sidebar area with direct links to the Friday Vineyard issues.
January 10, 2024 | Restored the Sermons page to the Resources – Archives area. This has sermon texts and audio recordings from Fr. Perkins, Fr. Pace, Fr. Johnson, and others.
January 10, 2024 | Deleted the page with a link to the Vineyard blog format in Resources – Archives area
January 10, 2024 | Restored the Dominican Republic mission trip information to the Resources – Archives area.
January 10, 2024 | In the Resources – Archives area, added several older resources including Fr. Perkin’s congregational messages, the livestreaming manuals (all obsolete), the page of “helpful links” (needs to be extensively redone), and the link to the older Vineyard issues that has a bug in it (cannot delete)
January 9, 2024 | Added “Sunday School” draft page to Ministries – Children and Youth
January 9, 2024 | Added ” Under Revision” note to Ministries – Missions – Get Involved
January 9, 2024 | Removed Ministries – Missions – Dominican Republic from visible menu
January 9, 2024 | Removed Ministries – Missions – Youth Mission Trip from visible menu
January 9, 2024 | Created this maintenance log page
January 7, 2024 | Moved the Calendar page to a top-level menu item
Requested
COMPLETED 02/13/2024 | January 31, 2024 | Fix the bug that prevents me from changing items in the Menu section using the slider function.
COMPLETED 01/28/2024 | January 25, 2024 | Add the new Stephen ministry to the Ministries Guide page. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/about-us/ministries-guide/
COMPLETED 01/31/2024 | January 24, 2024 | On the clergy and staff page, add active links to images. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
January 24, 2024 | Need some new photographs of personnel on the Clergy and Staff page https://christchurchvaldosta.org/clergy-and-staff-2/
January 24, 2024 | Add code to change mouse arrow to pointing hand when hovering over linked URL or image.
COMPLETED FOR PHOTOGRAPH 01/23/2024 | January 23, 2024 | Need a photograph on the Worship page, Also need a text description of Evening Prayer. https://christchurchvaldosta.org/worship-services/
COMPLETED Added to side widget area | January 23, 2024 | Add a link to the Sunday bulletin somewhere on the website.
January 23, 2024 | Add more photographs of activities to the Ministry Guide page.
January 22, 2024 | Reduce the number of top level menu items.
COMPLETED 01/24.2024 | January 22, 2024 | Add the Episcopal shield to the home page to go along with the new logo.
January 22, 2024 | Consider hiring a professional website design company to redesign the entire website.
January 22, 2024 | Reorganize the History page, perhaps with a series of cascading drop down menu options within that page.
January 22, 2024 | Add an invitation “to join us for worship” on the home page above the current headline photograph.
January 20, 2024 | Add a sidebar to the Recordings page
January 20, 2024 | Move links on the History page to a standard blue color.
COMPLETED 01/20/2024 January 19, 2024 | Resize images on Dave Clark – Habitat page @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/habitat-for-humanity-dave-clark-house/
COMPLETED 01/20/2024 January 19, 2024 | Decide better placement for Dave Clark – Habitat page @ https://christchurchvaldosta.org/habitat-for-humanity-dave-clark-house/
COMPLETED 01/18/2024 January 17, 2024 | Change link colors in Sidebar module
January 12, 2024 | Add a sidebar module to more webpages
COMPLETED 01/19/2024 January 10, 2024 | Requested new content for Sunday School, EYC, and Vacation Bible School pages
COMPLETED 01/16/2024 January 10, 2024 | Requested updated content for Grace Café page
COMPLETED | January 10, 2024 | Redesign home page – have one main image at top, delete slide show images?
COMPLETED 01/15/2024 | January 10, 2024 | Add Fr. Weidman’s welcome message to the home page
COMPLETED 01/10/24 January 10, 2024 | Delete the Vineyard Newsletter page under Resources – Publications – a bug is preventing deletion by me?
COMPLETED 01/10/24 January 10, 2024 | Check out the Resources – Archive page — old writings from Fr. Perkins? How to make visible again?