{"id":7510,"date":"2006-07-31T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:33:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:33:54","slug":"5062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/07\/31\/5062\/","title":{"rendered":"New Look for Enhanced Covenant Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 31, 2006) &#8211; Visitors to the Evangelical Covenant  Church website will notice a change in appearance sometime within the  next 12 hours as we move from the current website design to an enhanced  and expanded version operating on more powerful servers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A new Covenant website has been under development for the past several  months, notes Don Meyer, executive minister of Covenant Communications,  which is responsible for the Covenant website and Internet services on  behalf of the denomination.<\/p>\n<p>The new website incorporates content management technology that allows  individual ministries and offices to update certain content in their  respective portions of the website, instead of requiring all changes in  content to flow through just one or two individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The new website includes a number of new features, including a job  postings area that includes available positions for denominational,  conference, and local church ministries. (Churches desiring to post  positions should contact <a title=\"Heidi Griepp\" href=\"mailto:webster@covchurch.org\">webster@covchurch.org<\/a>.)  Another feature certain to be popular with users is a first-ever  Covenant-wide events calendar that over time will contain the most  comprehensive list of denomination and conference events available.<\/p>\n<p>For those desiring a fast track for contacting individuals in  denominational offices, a new staff directory will prove helpful,  including email addresses and telephone numbers for all staff arranged  alphabetically and by department.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have desired a more complete listing of local  Covenant churches and information about those churches, which is  especially helpful when making travel plans that include visits to  Covenant churches along the way. The new website includes a home page  for each local Covenant church containing basic location information.  Links to an individual church\u2019s website are provided if they have been  made available by that church. Churches desiring to add information to  their new directory home page may do so by emailing <a title=\"Heidi Griepp\" href=\"mailto:webster@covchurch.org\">webster@covchurch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An improved search function is incorporated into the new website with a  search window built into every page. Also new is the ability to conduct  searches for content in the Resources section without having material  from the rest of the site included.<\/p>\n<p>Those desiring to print out material or email items to friends will find  the new \u201cprint this page\u201d and improved \u201cemail this to a friend\u201d tools  of value. Visitors also will be greeted on the home page with a new  scripture of the day feature.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most visited area of the website \u2013 the daily online news  report \u2013 will now be available to local Covenant churches, conference  offices and others as a news RSS feed, which will allow those ministry  areas to position content from the denomination\u2019s daily online news  report on their respective home pages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese enhancements and the many others to be found in the new website  reflect the hard work of a number of people over the past months,\u201d Meyer  observes. \u201cA special note of appreciation is due Heidi Griepp, our  Internet Services manager, who has led the new website development  effort, with tremendous support from our Information Systems specialists  Troy Caldwell and Greg Neumarke. And, we are deeply appreciative of the  efforts by members of Team Glue, which includes representatives from  every ministry area and offices in the denomination. It has been a  tremendous team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feedback is encouraged, especially from the various departments,  offices, and affiliated institutions, but also from the thousands of  individuals who use the website each day. Comments should be directed to  <a title=\"Heidi GGriepp\" href=\"mailto:webster@covchurch.org\">webster@covchurch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=7510&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 31, 2006) &#8211; Visitors to the Evangelical Covenant Church website will notice a change in appearance sometime within the next 12 hours as we move from the current website design to an enhanced and expanded version operating on more powerful servers. 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