The Church’s new website is up and running at LDS.org. Nice clean look–though I had to look in the index for the stake and ward website portal. Other than that, so far, I like it. Take it out for a spin.
Update 1/31/07 8:10 a.m. In response to my email feed back on the Church’s website about their new look, I received the following email:
Church Global Service Desk <feedback@ldssupport.org>
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8:00 am (3 minutes ago)
Right now stake/ward websites can be found in About The Church. We are working on a redesign to make it be found more easily. Thanks for the feedback.Sincerely the LDS.org Portal Team
In response to the following email:
I really like the site; but, I think you should have included a direct link to the stake and ward websites on the front page as there was on the old front page. I’ve posted about the new site on my blog here. A few people have commented. You may want to see their comments as well. You can read them here:Category: General Feedback
So it appears there will be something that will make the link more user friendly.
January 30, 2007 at 8:04 am
Hopefully the frontpage will be tweaked to add a stake and ward portal link. My main complaint with the old site was the search engine. I like the new one much better.
January 30, 2007 at 11:46 am
The front page has a stake and ward portal link. Go to the first “about the church” link and look at the last choice in that row.
January 30, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Michael beat me to it.
January 30, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I also think the “Stake and Ward” portal should be on the front page. All-in-all the site “look & feel” is much improved, but the navigation has suffered. It feels less like a web and more like a tree; navigating between branches/leaves is impossible as far as I can tell.
January 31, 2007 at 6:40 am
Sherpa & John: I agree. I did find the link; but, had to use their search function to find the stake and ward web links. I would never have guessed to look in the portion of the tree where they have located it. There should be a front page direct link, as there was on the old site.
Michael and Dan: Thanks for your input on where the link is. It’s not really a “front” page portal as the old website link was. Many folks are used to finding the ward or stake webs sites from that link. Now it’s gone there will be additional searching required.
I’m the administrator in our ward for our ward’s web site. I’m going to do an email broad cast to our ward members, who are signed up for the site to provide them with this link. We have maybe half our active members actually signed up with their confirmation date and member number–so it’s a constant work in progress trying to educate members about the ward website, how to get there, and what benefits it offers.
February 5, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:
http://www.americanlegends.blogspot.com
If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.
Thanks,
David
May 16, 2013 at 11:18 am
Touche. Great arguments. Keep up the great effort.