Development Link & Training
Good morning Denise & Fr. Gregor,
We have reached the point in development at which we share a link to the development site with you.
Training Sessions
The first training session typically takes ~2 hours and is done remotely via a screen share program. We will send over the meeting link and phone number in a later email.
During the training sessions, we go over:
- How to edit the homepage content
- How to edit the footer
- How to edit the menu
- How to create/edit inner pages
- How to create/edit posts
- How to create/edit image galleries
- How to create/edit online forms
Since this can be a lot, we break the training down into two sessions:
Session 1: Editing the site basics
Session 2: Editing the additional site features & answering follow-up questions
This is completely up to your learning pace and how much you feel comfortable covering at once.
Development Site Link
Something to keep in mind is that the site is not quite completed yet, with the largest thing being mobile responsiveness. That said, it is best to look at the development site on a desktop computer, rather than a laptop or smaller screen. Mobile development/responsiveness is something that the developer completes after the training so that he can update any changes along with the original development!
There are some other big items that we are still working on, such as:
- Link under News Section on Homepage
Other than that, if you see anything that alarms you (design or functionality), please let me know and we can address your concerns.
Development Site URL: Church: https://matthew.diocesanweb.org/ and School: https://matthew.diocesanweb.org/school/
Please let us know what dates and times (CST) work best for the training or if you have any other questions,
Cody Armock
Web Content Specialist, Web Department
Denise Petty
Hi Cody!!!
So exciting. Can’t wait to look.
I am free Monday 12/13 and Tuesday 12/14 from 8:30-1:30CST
Would either or both of those work??
Thanks,
Denise
So exciting. Can’t wait to look.
I am free Monday 12/13 and Tuesday 12/14 from 8:30-1:30CST
Would either or both of those work??
Thanks,
Denise
Cody Armock
Hello Denise,
Here is the meeting information for next Monday:
Diocesan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: First Training | Matthew (Glendale Heights, IL)
Time: Dec 13, 2021 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88312034665
Meeting ID: 883 1203 4665
Call To Join Audio by Phone
+1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 883 1203 4665
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
Here is the meeting information for next Monday:
Diocesan is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: First Training | Matthew (Glendale Heights, IL)
Time: Dec 13, 2021 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88312034665
Meeting ID: 883 1203 4665
Call To Join Audio by Phone
+1 312 626 6799
Meeting ID: 883 1203 4665
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
Denise Petty
Look forward to it!
Have a fantastic weekend,
Denise
Have a fantastic weekend,
Denise
Cody Armock
Hello Denise & Fr. Gregor,
In the training today, you talked about getting the Calendar set up on the School's homepage. Normally, we do this through a Google Calendar and I am imagining since you do your emails through Google that you would do your calendar through it too.
In the training today, you talked about getting the Calendar set up on the School's homepage. Normally, we do this through a Google Calendar and I am imagining since you do your emails through Google that you would do your calendar through it too.
Here are instructions on how to make your Calendar public and how to get the Calendar ID, which is what we need to put it on the website.
Make your Google Calendar public:
- In the Google Calendar interface, locate the "My calendars" area on the left.
- Hover over the calendar you need and click the vertical three dots.
- A menu will appear. Click "Settings and Sharing".
- Under "Access Permissions" check "Make this calendar public".
- Make sure "See all event details" is selected from the dropdown.
Obtain your Google Calendar's ID:
- In the Google Calendar interface, locate the "My calendars" area on the left.
- Hover over the calendar you need and click the vertical three dots.
- A menu will appear. Click "Settings and Sharing".
- In the "Integrate calendar" section of the screen (near the bottom), you will see your Calendar ID. It will look something like "abcd1234@group.calendar.google.com" or abcd@gmail.com.
Let me know what the Calendar ID and we will add it to the website.
Thank you,
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
Denise Petty
Thanks!!!
Denise Petty
HI Cody,
I went in and edited all the school staff members. Basically added photos and corrected a few things. Also removed and added. Could you please take a quick look and let me know what you think?
Thanks,
Denise
I went in and edited all the school staff members. Basically added photos and corrected a few things. Also removed and added. Could you please take a quick look and let me know what you think?
Thanks,
Denise
Cody Armock
Good Morning Denise,
I just went in and change the alignment of the Staff from Top to Center so it had more of their faces in the frame. Other than that, it looks good.
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
I just went in and change the alignment of the Staff from Top to Center so it had more of their faces in the frame. Other than that, it looks good.
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
Denise Petty
Thanks Cody Will continue my editing.
Fr Gregor Gorsic
Dear Cody and Denise!
I'm just catching up here on these emails this morning -- I am very excited to see the progress happening on the school and broader parish websites. Does the website page exist and/or is there a construction preview of it ready for us to see how it will work for the "launching page" (or "landing page" - I don't recall the proper nomenclature!) when we go live? Namely, what will happen first if people type in St. Matthew Parish or St. Matthew Parish School? Did we plan that both URLs would be first directed to a "landing page" with the only choice being either Parish side or School side? That was part of the initial discussion some time ago, I recall. In other words, if someone in the future will type in "stmatthewschool.org (http://stmatthewschool.org)" will it go to the landing page first or directly to the school home page, and the same for the broader parish website, if someone types or clicks "stmattehwchurch.org (http://stmattehwchurch.org)" will it go first to the landing page or directly to the parish home page?
Another question I have: are the training sessions being recorded? It looks like after a quick glance on these email exchanges that there has been one training so far, I'm assuming Session 1: Editing the Site Basics. If this first session was not recorded, maybe Denise, you could summarize the key learning points and takeaways on the Site Basics, and if we could we arrange that all future sessions be recorded, if possible? We will follow your Diocesan.com specific guidelines and requirements on sharing these training sessions, of course. Live training is best, no doubt, but with schedules being what they are (not even considering we're in "Christmas mode"!) I think it would be advisable to be able to view these training sessions at times that would be more convenient.
I am thinking about who on the parish side needs to be trained, and for now, I think it is myself and Chris Wolgat and, of course, Denise.
There are of course other staff and parishioners who could benefit from this training, I'm sure, but right now, it seems that I would want to keep a few key people trained first. In the future, staff like Christian with Music/Liturgy and Dcn. Lindsey and his wife Donna would be important to train on keeping calendars of Liturgical Ministries up-to-date, Laura with Hispanic Ministry should be able to navigate the page(s) she as Coordinator of Hispanic Ministry would coordinate, Christine with the broad spectrum of Faith Formation and Youth Ministry (down the road), etc., but those would be more targeted people with targeted pages on the website. This is my vision of how this should operate in the future. Chris Wolgat is our bulletin editor and overall parish secretary, that is why I want to start with her and, of course, with you, Denise, for your expertise and the possibility of doing internal training as our local, in-house website expert. Again, that is my vision moving forward.
Another question I have regards forms and filling them in for MailerLite email service. I have purchased for the entire parish and school family the $15/month subscription for MailerLite (the upto 2,500 subscribers level). I believe migrating/moving the email lists from the school's previous free MailerLite account to our broader-parish MailerLite account is now complete -- Denise, you can verify that. I would like to phase out (not necessarily delete yet!) the school free MailerLite account and strictly use the paid subscription account for both parish and school. I believe Denise has access to the new broader-parish account, and all website forms for signing up for the school, the alumni, for school news and as well for parish news future emails should all be going into the bigger, paid MailerLite account. Any questions about that, please direct them to Denise, unless she needs me to access MailerLite myself.
These are my initial thoughts and comments as I explore these communications between our website development team and the "construction websites". Again: very, very exciting! Thanks for the great work thus far! Shalom and joy and good health for all!
In the living, loving, giving and caring Hearts of Jesus and Mary and Joseph,
Fr. Gregor
I'm just catching up here on these emails this morning -- I am very excited to see the progress happening on the school and broader parish websites. Does the website page exist and/or is there a construction preview of it ready for us to see how it will work for the "launching page" (or "landing page" - I don't recall the proper nomenclature!) when we go live? Namely, what will happen first if people type in St. Matthew Parish or St. Matthew Parish School? Did we plan that both URLs would be first directed to a "landing page" with the only choice being either Parish side or School side? That was part of the initial discussion some time ago, I recall. In other words, if someone in the future will type in "stmatthewschool.org (http://stmatthewschool.org)" will it go to the landing page first or directly to the school home page, and the same for the broader parish website, if someone types or clicks "stmattehwchurch.org (http://stmattehwchurch.org)" will it go first to the landing page or directly to the parish home page?
Another question I have: are the training sessions being recorded? It looks like after a quick glance on these email exchanges that there has been one training so far, I'm assuming Session 1: Editing the Site Basics. If this first session was not recorded, maybe Denise, you could summarize the key learning points and takeaways on the Site Basics, and if we could we arrange that all future sessions be recorded, if possible? We will follow your Diocesan.com specific guidelines and requirements on sharing these training sessions, of course. Live training is best, no doubt, but with schedules being what they are (not even considering we're in "Christmas mode"!) I think it would be advisable to be able to view these training sessions at times that would be more convenient.
I am thinking about who on the parish side needs to be trained, and for now, I think it is myself and Chris Wolgat and, of course, Denise.
There are of course other staff and parishioners who could benefit from this training, I'm sure, but right now, it seems that I would want to keep a few key people trained first. In the future, staff like Christian with Music/Liturgy and Dcn. Lindsey and his wife Donna would be important to train on keeping calendars of Liturgical Ministries up-to-date, Laura with Hispanic Ministry should be able to navigate the page(s) she as Coordinator of Hispanic Ministry would coordinate, Christine with the broad spectrum of Faith Formation and Youth Ministry (down the road), etc., but those would be more targeted people with targeted pages on the website. This is my vision of how this should operate in the future. Chris Wolgat is our bulletin editor and overall parish secretary, that is why I want to start with her and, of course, with you, Denise, for your expertise and the possibility of doing internal training as our local, in-house website expert. Again, that is my vision moving forward.
Another question I have regards forms and filling them in for MailerLite email service. I have purchased for the entire parish and school family the $15/month subscription for MailerLite (the upto 2,500 subscribers level). I believe migrating/moving the email lists from the school's previous free MailerLite account to our broader-parish MailerLite account is now complete -- Denise, you can verify that. I would like to phase out (not necessarily delete yet!) the school free MailerLite account and strictly use the paid subscription account for both parish and school. I believe Denise has access to the new broader-parish account, and all website forms for signing up for the school, the alumni, for school news and as well for parish news future emails should all be going into the bigger, paid MailerLite account. Any questions about that, please direct them to Denise, unless she needs me to access MailerLite myself.
These are my initial thoughts and comments as I explore these communications between our website development team and the "construction websites". Again: very, very exciting! Thanks for the great work thus far! Shalom and joy and good health for all!
In the living, loving, giving and caring Hearts of Jesus and Mary and Joseph,
Fr. Gregor
Denise Petty
Good Morning Father!!!
You have had more caffeine or Wheaties than me today! :-) I am currently signed in and making edits this morning after my great training yesterday from Cody. Made notes below....
Have a great day!
Denise
You have had more caffeine or Wheaties than me today! :-) I am currently signed in and making edits this morning after my great training yesterday from Cody. Made notes below....
Have a great day!
Denise
Denise Petty
Good Morning Father!!!
You have had more caffeine or Wheaties than me today! :-) I am currently signed in and making edits this morning after my great training yesterday from Cody. Made notes below....
Have a great day!
Denise
You have had more caffeine or Wheaties than me today! :-) I am currently signed in and making edits this morning after my great training yesterday from Cody. Made notes below....
Have a great day!
Denise
Cody Armock
Hello Denise and Fr. Gregor,
Unfortunately, your notes/edits, Denise, were not brought into Basecamp, so I am unable to see what was commented on, but I can make some brief remarks.
Once the sites launch, the landing pages will be on each site. We can make them look identical to one another, so it seems like one page, but there will be one for the school and one for the church, but they will not go directly to either of the interior homepages right away. It is hard to explain, but I know what you are saying. Basically, if they type in the Church's domain stmatthewchurch.org or the stmatthewschool.org url, they will go to the landing page where they can go to the Church or the School from there.
The trainings are being recorded and Denise has access to those. I will record the next training over Forms and Envira Gallery too. It seems like Forms won't be used too often with MailerLite, which we may have to go over a bit too and how to integrate that into the site.
Denise, please send me the information (First and Last Names and Emails) for those that need user accounts right now and the access level (Just Church, Just School, both, don't need access to menus or theme settings and just need access to their pages, etc.) and I can get those made.
Thank you,
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan
Unfortunately, your notes/edits, Denise, were not brought into Basecamp, so I am unable to see what was commented on, but I can make some brief remarks.
Once the sites launch, the landing pages will be on each site. We can make them look identical to one another, so it seems like one page, but there will be one for the school and one for the church, but they will not go directly to either of the interior homepages right away. It is hard to explain, but I know what you are saying. Basically, if they type in the Church's domain stmatthewchurch.org or the stmatthewschool.org url, they will go to the landing page where they can go to the Church or the School from there.
The trainings are being recorded and Denise has access to those. I will record the next training over Forms and Envira Gallery too. It seems like Forms won't be used too often with MailerLite, which we may have to go over a bit too and how to integrate that into the site.
Denise, please send me the information (First and Last Names and Emails) for those that need user accounts right now and the access level (Just Church, Just School, both, don't need access to menus or theme settings and just need access to their pages, etc.) and I can get those made.
Thank you,
Cody Armock
Web Department, Diocesan