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Well, as promised the new web site design for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)<\/a> has been rolled out late today just in time for the start of the General Assembly<\/a> meeting beginning on Saturday.<\/p>\n

My first impression is very positive.  It has interactive media on the front page, a nice clean feel at the top, and good navigation links.  It is a bit more cluttered at the bottom of the front page.  A little checking shows that the front page style is not propagated throughout the site — There is a new style that differs from the front for the GAMC<\/a>, and the OGA pages<\/a> still retain the same look and feel as they did yesterday.<\/p>\n

As for URL’s there is a new system that seems logical as far as I have explored it.  Previously a web page was a subdirectory of the pcusa.org address.  Now it is a subdomain of the site.  For example, the General Assembly page was www.pcusa.org\/ga219<\/a> and it is now ga219.pcusa.org and the OGA was www.pcusa.org\/oga<\/a> and it similarly is now oga.pcusa.org.  For simple cases like these two the old addresses forward.  However, more complicated cases do not follow this rule:  www.pcusa.org\/research<\/a> does forward, but not to research.pcusa.org but to gamc.pcusa.org\/ministries\/research<\/a>.  And not everything forwards — a lot of my previous links are now broken.  For example, the documents I linked to earlier today are still generally valid links, although one is now broken, and the nice index page for comparative statistics is gone!  There is now a resource page that lists each table seperatly.  That may take some time to get through.  And one other inconsistancy — if you want to get to the current GA it is ga219.pcusa.org as I mentioned above.  All the previous GA’s are oga.pcusa.org\/ga216<\/a> , or whatever GA you want.<\/p>\n

The one other feature of the web site is the quick and easy access to the store<\/a>.  (And while advertised as a ministry of the GAMC it has its own subdomain and is not under the GAMC domain.)  I would also note that the other arms, like the Presbyterian Foundation<\/a>, PILP<\/a>, and Publishing<\/a> appear to retain their old styles. (And when I typed “investment and loan program” in the search it returned a very plain page with the styles stripped out or invalid.)  Also the new search is not nearly as useful.  The previous one returned a ministry arm, committee or office link at the top if it matched your search above the usual list of documents.  Now you just get the documents listed out.<\/p>\n

I’ll keep looking but it will take a little getting used to.  And I don’t know how many of the items I mention above are bugs and how many are features.  I’m sure there is more testing and patching to do so I look forward to the continued work.  And I’ll start looking to fix all my broken links…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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