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Web Page Development

 A few pages on web page design with ideas to consider:
http://www.pcusa.org/pcusa/ctr/ctrwebp.htm      Web Hosting Policy for PC(USA) Web Site
http://www.pcusa.org/pcnet/chweb.htm#resources  How to make a church Web page               
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm		Web Page Design for Designers - Home Page   
http://www.webtemplates.com/design.html 	Indigo Storm WebTemplates: Web Design Tips  
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html 	Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Alertbox May 1996) 
http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html/		HTML Made Really Easy                       


One philosopy on web page design is:
1)  Determine what info do I want to convey and to who 
2)  Determine who will my readers be
3)  For internet readers use the outlined info method with lots of links.  
Not much on long paragraphs until several tiers down.  
4)  Keep pages short with limited graphics to speed up loading and to 
facilitate printing.  Many readers may have older computers with less RAM
and slower printers.
5)  Use lowest common denominator software techniques to insure the least 
frustrations for my readers even with the oldest browsers.
6)  Be sure pages are easily viewable by readers with 14" screens.
7)  Remember that routine maintenance of data is time consuming so design 
the site for maintainability to the level acceptable to the maintainers.  
(Too many links to outside sources are hard to maintain,  See Bethany's Other Web Sites page
as an example of a maintenance nightmare.)

One method to create new monthly pages easily. (Ie. for Agenda and 
Minutes.) Using your favorite Word Processor (Ie. MS Word)
-Type up this month's document
Using Netscape - Communicator - Composer
-Open Netscape to any page
-Select Composer in Communicator pull down in top tool bar
-Open a New Document on the left side of the Composer tool bar 
-Create a New Page from an Existing Template 
-Find the appropriate template using Chose File (Templates have the header 
and footer info and the generic title for the type of page you are creating.)  
(See spm_temp.htm for a sample template.)
-In a sepearate window open this month's document with your word processor  
-In your word processor select Selct All from the Edit pull down from the tool bar
-Do a CTRL-C to copy all that has been selected to the buffer or notepad
-Move to the page your are Composing and select with your mouse all the old 
stuff that you want to take out
-Do a CTRL-V to paste in the word processing data and delete the old stuff
-Move up and down in the page and make sure it looks ok
-Select Save As from the File pull down and name your file with an appropriate 
name.  (ie. spa9902.htm for Sacramento Presbytery Agenda for 2/99)
-Enter an appropriate window title where it asks for the page title 
(ie. Sacramento Presbytery - Agenda 2/19/99 Fremont)
-Exit Composer
Note this method looses the Meta Tags for Keywords that I placed in the template, 
but this is not critical unless we think these pages need to be found via web 
search engines.

Create the link to your new page on your page of links.  (Ie. On your 
Agendas list page.)
-Open Netscape to any page
-Select Composer in Communicator pull down in top tool bar
-Select Open on the Composer tool bar and Open the page you want to edit 
(Ie. The agendas page that has all the links to the various agenda pages.)
-Put your cursor on the start of the top link and hit return (You now get a 
new spot to put your newest link.)
-Type in the new Link Name (Ie. 02/19/99 Fremont) and highlight it with your cursor
-Select Link on the Composer tool bar and enter the filename of the file you 
just created (Ie. spa9902.htm)
-Make sure the new link looks lined up with the rest.
-Close and save the document
-With your browser (Ie. Netscape) go to the file that has the links and check 
the new link to be sure it works.

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