The new diocesan website was launched on Wednesday, January 14th, 2015, and the initial feedback has been positive. The website is very much a work in progress and has been developed and designed so that it may continue to expand in order to serve the parishes of the diocese and all who visit the site.
The focus of our diocese is parish growth, parish health and parish development and the website design has been created with that in mind. Bishop Melissa Skelton’s vision for the Diocese of New Westminster is that this diocese become known around the Anglican Communion and beyond for learning, listening, teaching, liturgy and development of parishes.
Currently, content for the worship and liturgical resources sections of the site is being developed and those responsible for more recent programs like the Practitioner Groups (Interim Ministry and Membership Growth), Adult Formation Resources and Indigenous Justice are in the process of creating and resourcing content.
Future design plans include: a video guide of the website available on the Welcome page, donation function, attractive headers and footers featuring the blue and yellow of the diocesan badge and contact forms custom developed for each website section.
Many thanks to the folks at Church OS: Matt Morrison, Natalie Brown and Luke Cowell for their enthusiastic, skillful and creative work on this project.
In the photo we see Matt and Luke on January 9th after a long afternoon’s consult with diocesan communications posing in front of screens displaying a lot of code.