Sprint to the finish

Meeting with Communications Committee went well today. 

Mom took the staff bios and uploading the newsletter articles as blog entries.  She sent out an email later that blogging is easy (and sounded excited about it).  Hopefully getting our site to display blogs is just as easy. 

Ted's taking responsibility for all the photos and creating the flickr site.  He'll be recruiting Charlotte.  Ted showed us some of her photos of the church - I loved the one of the green window shutter against the white pargeing of the church, held be a black wrought iron "shutter holder".  We've got to find some way to use that shot - it's just too good.  Honestly, I'd print and frame it. 

My idea to use a thumbnail of the church mouse for the "Tell us what you think" section may be foiled by the fact that our mouse is pretty... ratty.  I don't know how someone managed to sew his eye back on, but it looks like that's what we're dealing with.  Maybe a profile shot of his "good side" will do the trick. 

Janet is giving appropriate access to everyone and creating the email addresses.  She's also putting on her Worship and Music hat to create some pages for our bells and voices.  I'll be figuring out Feedburner.  Once we have the blog created it'll give me something to play with.  Of course, I should use this blog to play with - that's why I made it, right?  I'm also going to do the Camtasia website tour, which hopefully will create itself once we have the site up and I figure out how Camtasia works.  Pretty sure that's what I used to make the Stewardship slideshow/movie, although the screen capture with narration is a slightly different animal.  I'm sure it'll be fine.  I should ask Greg if he has a good microphone I can borrow.

We got writeups back from Christian Ed, Social Ministry, and Shepherding.  Need to find Angela's bag of pictures - actually, it probably makes more sense for Charlotte to get it and load everything onto the flickr site.  Tomorrow's task should be to edit the writeups we got (as necessary) and upload away.  This 30-page limit thing is a bother.  40-page is going to be a bother too.  I need to count and see what can be done to consolidate, but I think we're going to be in the 50-60 range to start easily. 

I came across this link to a prayer card from Generation Church that I thought was pretty cool:

http://generationchurch.org/pdf/gc_prayercard.pdf

Trying to find the link I had (someplace) to some church that had a really nice bio section for their staff.  Pretty sure at some point I wrote up some questions we could use.  Might want to find that too. 

• Favorite scripture
• Favorite bible character
• Favorite hymn
• Special Zion moment

Joanne asked for a high-res image of the Mission 300 logo.  Hopefully the folks at Costco can do something with the pdf I gave her.  She's thinking of making a 3x3' poster for the Martin Luther room (I think). 

Got the Z favicon working!  That's pretty cool - now I need to edit it so there's a transparent background instead of the white.  Still pretty dang cool.

Before I do anything with editing the content we got, I need to write up my feedback on the design.  The logo needs help, the font in the header doesn't work in bold.  I like the footer, but the rose window coloring doesn't match well.  Not sure if the interior page layout will scale to match the amount of content on the page.  Need to check on the spacing of the sitemap text if we spell out "Christian Education Building Usage Info".  Need to ask Jim how the Directions/Service Times drop-down is going to work, and whether we can edit it later or if it's something he needs to hard code in.  Space after Listen Now before /. 

Okay, the rest will have to wait till tomorrow.  Time for bed.