What's Changed on the Site?

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Regular Updates

• The monthly calendar under the ACTIVITIES menu is updated by the church secretary frequently.
• Daily Bible Study under the HOME menu is updated late every Sunday evening/early Monday morning.
• Daily Scripture reading for Upper Room and home page is updated daily.

Recent Updates

• January, 2007 - Added new calendar
• January, 2007 - Added MAPIT to members address page.
• January, 2007 - Added more puzzles under HOME ~ GAMES ~ PUZZLES.
• January, 2007 - Added "Todays Calendar" and "Serving this Sunday" on HOME page.
• January, 2007 - Added Video Gallery Page under the Activities menu
• December, 2007 - Added sermons feed
• September, 2006 Added Birthday Calendar to the Home Page where birthdays are listed.
• September, 2006 Added links to Kids game and Local Obituary listings.
• February, 2006 Added Tell-A-Friend to the bottom of every page on the website. If you come across a page you think a friend would be interested in, simply click the link on the bottom of the page, enter your and your friends name and email address' and poof, an email will be sent to your friend with a clickable link taking them to the page you sent them.
• January, 2006 Added ability for any member of the church that has a username/password to create their own page on the website. If a Sunday school requests, I can create a user name for the class so that class information can be posted by class officers on the website.
• January, 2006 Added ability for any person to upload files to the website. If you have pictures you would like for me to add to the site, you can now upload them to the website instead of emailing them to me.
• Monday, October 17, 2005 Added RSS news feed to website.
• Saturday, October 15, 2005 Added pictures of Fall Festival and Children's Carnival.
• Friday, October 14, 2005 Updated HOME page to remove News Scroller and replace showing all news items on the page. Added UNC News Syndication items on HOME page on right side.
• Thursday, October 13, 2005 Updated Greeters schedule. Updated Nursery again.
• Monday, October 10, 2005 Updated Nursery and Usher schedules.
• Sunday, October 9, 2005 Added pictures from pumpkin patch.
• Sunday, September 11, 2005 Added "Bible Challenge" page under BIBLE STUDY menu item. Added UMC syndication link under HOME menu item.
• Saturday, September 10, 2005 Added pictures from church picnic.
• Saturday, June 18, 2005 Re-added search capibility to the site on bottom of each page and top menu.
• Sunday, May 15, 2005 Added confirmands join pictures.
• Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Added current local temperature on the sidebar. Mouseover temp to get more detail, click to get even more detail.
• Saturday, March 26, 2005 Added "Todays Birthdays" to news scroller on the home page.
• Saturday, March 26, 2005 Added site search with link on the menu and search box at the bottom of every page.
• Wednesday, March 23, 2005. Added drop down list on the sidebar that has link to every page on the site.
• Monday, March 21, 2005 Added dynamic proverbs to every page. Random proverbs will be displayed on every page.
• Monday, March 8, 2005 Added calendar to sidebar. Clicking on day will open up the day view to calendar for that day.
• Tuesday, February 22, 2005 Added 2nd floor on Church Tour under Visitors Menu.
• Tuesday, February 15, 2005 Rewrote the Send Message page under TALK TO US. It was still using the email server at GBGM.
• Monday, February 15, 2005 Added a test calendar under activities to see if anybody likes it.
• Friday, February 11, 2005 Changed MESSAGES menu item to TALK TO US.
• Friday, February 11, 2005 Added GIHN information on Ministries page under ABOUT US ~ MINISTRIES
• Friday, February 11, 2005 Miscellaneous cleanup throughout entire website standardizing headings and page look.
• Friday, February 11, 2005 Changes to the Hymns page to fix problems and clean up extra pages.
• Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Finally updating officers pages. Updated through trustees. Hopefully the rest by the weekend.
• Wednesday, February 9, 2005 Created new format for eNewsletter.
• Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Created eCard page with links to other eCards.
• Sunday, February 6, 2005 Due to refreshing the membership database, I had to modify the membership list to only include 1 letter at a time. A side effect is that the screen now loads quickly. You just have to click the letter for the last name.
• Sunday, February 6, 2005 Refreshed the online membership database from Church database.
• Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Added back offering sermons in MP3 format. Will still only provide 4-5 MP3 sermons due to space limitations.
• Tuesday, February 1, 2005 Finally updated some of schedules (Still working on acolyte schedule).
• Sunday, April 11, 2004 Added Easter Sunday pictures.
• Saturday, April 10, 2004 - Changed the left side bar to include graphic of the steeple.
• Friday, April 9, 2004 - Changed headings on some pages to use cross and flame. Converted schedules back to the listing format, instead of calendar format.
• Thursday, April 8, 2004 Moved website to new hosting service. This service gives me a lot more room to expand in the future.
• Sunday, March 28, 2004 Added a Spring scene to the wallpaper page.
• Sunday, March 28, 2004 With the reformat of the home page, added a quick link to the daily event calendar.
• Sunday, March 28, 2004 Modified Home Page to remove scrolling banner that may of been causing problems with our MAC users. Hopefully it will be useful in the new format.
• Wednesday, March 3, 2004 Linked to page that explains "MAKE AUMC HOME" on Left Side Bar.
• Monday, January 26, 2004 Added Archdale UMC Wallpaper under the HOME menu.
• Monday, January 19, 2004 Added NEWS email group for the church. This group will receive the church newsletter via email and any other important news about church happenings. Follow the link on the Newsletter, or go to the SEND MESSAGE page under the MESSAGES menu.
• Friday, January 9, 2004 Finished updating all Officer/Committee/team pages for new year.
• Thursday, January 8, 2004 Updated Council Page for new year.
• Wednesday, January 7, 2004 Added STREAMING format for sermons so that entire sermon does not have to be downloaded before it starts to play.
• Wednesday, January 7, 2004 Loaded sermons for 12/28/2003 and 1/4/2004.
• Wednesday, January 7, 2004 Updated Acolyte Schedule. Updated Nursery schedule and converted to new calendar format.
• Tuesday, January 6, 2004 Loaded January Newsletter.
• Thursday, January 1, 2004 Changed color scheme back from holiday colors.
• Wednesday, December 10, 2004 Changed color scheme for holiday seaon.
• Sunday, November 16, 2003 Finally got last weeks sermon up. Sorry for the delay.
• Friday, November 14, 2003 Started using new calendar format. Let us know if it's OK.
• Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Removed UMW Activities and What's Coming Up from Activities menu. It is more acurate to maintain all events in the church calendar. Currently working on a new calendar format. Hopefully available within a couple weeks.
• Wednesday, November 5, 2003 Loaded November Newsletter.
• Tuesday, November 4, 2003 Updated acolyte schedule. Updated Front Porch Callers Schedule and converted to new calendar format.
• Monday, October 13, 2003 Added "Called to the Ministry" article from the Archdale-Trinity News. Located under About US ~ Pastors Corner ~ The McKims
• Monday, October 6, 2003 Added Cokesbury Virtual Bookstore. Purchases made through our church link earn our church money from Cokesbury.
• Wednesday, October 2, 2003 Loaded October Newsletter.
• Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Added an arial view of the church property under the Visitors menu item.
• Monday, September 29, 2003 Added a bunch of pictures in the photo gallery over the weekend. Modified the menu bar deleting the Leadership menu item amd moving the items under it (Staff, Pastors Corner, and Officers) under the About Us menu item.
• Monday, September 22, 2003 Using a different website link to view scripture on the Daily Bible Study page under the Bible Study Menu. This site shows scripture using NRSV instead of NIV.
• Sunday, September 21, 2003 Added a couple pictures in photo gallery, added sermon from last Sunday 9/14.
• Monday, September 15, 2003 Added simple jigsaw puzzles for a little fun. Under HOME menu, then Puzzles.
• Friday, August 29, 2003 Added a "Remember me next time" check box on the signon screen. If checked(Your browser must accept cookies), you will be automatically logged on everytime you visit the website on that computer. To disable, either Logoff, or delete your cookies.
• Tuesday, August 27, 2003 September Newsletter is up.
• Sunday, August 24, 2003 Added 30 Days of Prayer link on left side bar. It's the prayer card for September.
• Saturday, August 23, 2003 Converted Greeters Schedule to use new calendar format.
• Friday, August 22, 2003 Added site map on left side bar. Miscellaneous fixes including sermons not playing. Please let me know if you find something that doesn't work.
• Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Conversion to new format.
• Wednesday, August 13, 2003 Changed Acolyte Schedule page to use new calendar format. All Schedules and church calendars will eventually be converted to the new calendar format. Will also allow Sunday School classes to set up calendars for their class that can be maintained by a class officer.
• Monday, August 11, 2003 Added Adult Sunday School class pictures. Under "About AUMC" menu, SS CLASSES submenu.
• Monday, August 11, 2003 Moved the physical location of pictures of sermons to another ISP. This will allow me to keep more pictures and sermons on the web site without exceeding GBGM's space limitation. There should not be any visible changes.
• Saturday, August 9, 2003 Added link for prayer request on Home menu. Prayer requests will be sent to the church office and the pastor.
• Friday, August 8, 2003 Modified ticker on the home page so that it can be stopped/started and change the speed that messages are displayed.
• Thursday, August 7, 2003 Added 8/3/03 Sermon.
• Monday, August 4, 2003 Changed date for Take-Two Sale from August 23rd to October 25th.
• Monday, August 4, 2003 Added Link to Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network(GIHN) on Links of Interest Page on Home menu
• Thursday, July 31, 2003 Added 7/27/03 Sermon.
• Monday, July 28, 2003 Added Sermons submenu under Pastor's Corner on Home menu. Requires RealPlayer.
• Saturday, July 26, 2003 Loaded August newsletter. Using new format. Please let me know if you see any mistakes.
• Thursday, July 24, 2003 Added pictures from the Hawaiian Luau for UMYF at Parsonage on July 13.
• Sunday, July 20, 2003 Added pictures from the UMW Ice Cream Social held tonight.
• Thursday, July 17, 2003 Changed so a new Bible verse will appear on the home page each day.
• Monday, July 14, 2003 Modified staff page to use new photos, still waiting for a few photos though. Removed "We Celebrate" pages from activities menu which were not receiving any traffic and were hard to keep current.
• Wednesday, July 9, 2003 Added Watermark of church on miscellaneous pages under "About AUMC" and this page.
• Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Added a link on the Home menu to E-Cards.
• Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Updated schedules
• Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Added Link to NC traffic cameras under "Links of Interest"
• Monday, June 30, 2003 Added pictures to Photo Gallery of the welcome dinner for the McKims.
• Sunday, June 29, 2003 Miscellaneous changes on pages under Staff menu to reflect new minister and other positions.
• Sunday, June 29, 2003 Got July newsletter loaded.
• Sunday, June 1, 2003 Confirmation Sunday pictures in photo gallery.
• Wednesday, May 28, 2003 Got June newsletter loaded.
• Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Created "New Pastor" page under the home menu.
• Monday, May 8, 2003 Finally got May newsletter loaded.
• Monday, April 21, 2003 Added Easter Sunday pictures under Activities ~ Photo Gallery.
• Monday, April 21, 2003 Modified Daily Bible Study page to include all weeks for the quarter so you will always be able to see the study material when I neglect to put the current week on the site.
• Friday, April 18, 2003 Added pictures from the Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, April 13.
• Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Updated the scroller on the home page to allow expansion so you can see all messages at once.
• Monday, March 3, 2003 Updated daily bible study late. Sorry.
• Tuesday, February 27, 2003 Added more Confirmand and Birthday Party pictures (On February 9) to the Photo Gallery. Thanks Mary John for the pictures.
• Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Added Confirmand and Birthday Party pictures (On February 9) to the Photo Gallery. Updated confirmand pictures under Confirmands Sub-menu under Activities menu. Thanks Gene Shaw for the pictures.
• Friday, February 7, 2003 Fixed problem where receiving error "Must Supply Record Key or Name to view a record!!!" when trying to view member records.
• Sunday, February 2, 2003 Uploaded the February Church newsletter and updated the activities page for activities in February and March.
• Friday, January 31, 2003 Added a Site Activity page under the Home menu. This page lists the number of times and the last access date of pages on the website. It will give you an idea of what others are looking at.
• Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Updated the Daily Bible Study page under the home menu to open up scripture in a new window. Also, updated so the current day scripture is highlighted.
• Monday, January 13, 2003 Added a Forgot Password link on the members sign-on. Username and password will be e-mailed to your e-mail address.
• Friday, January 10, 2003 Added Print Current Display under members section to print address list. It will print what is currently displayed in the body of the page. The print appears to work in Netscape 4.7, Netscape 7, Mozilla, and IE 5.5.
• Thursday, January 9, 2003 Moved New Members to ACTIVITIES menu under the new We Celebrate sub-menu.
• Thursday, January 9, 2003 Moved Guestbook, Add Event, and Webmaster comments to MESSAGES section.
• Monday, January 6, 2003 Added a "Printable Address list" under the Members section.
• Thursday, January 2, 2003 Added a "Continuous Hymns" link on the Hymn sub-menu to play all Hymns. Working on making it randomly play the hymns instead of doing the same order every time.
• Thursday, January 2, 2003 Fixed a major problem where Hymns would not play on any browser. Not sure how long it wasn't workings. Hopefully fixed some issues where Hymns would not play using Netscape or Mozilla.
• Wednesday, January 1, 2003 Added January Newsletter. Back to PDF format.
• Tuesday, December 31, 2002 Slowly updating schedules for 2003. In the process, I am removing phone number from the schedules and creating a link to the member database to view phone numbers. The reason for this is so that members phone numbers are not broadcast on the web.
• Thursday December 12, 2002 Updated Schedules: Acolyte Schedule thru March 2003, Homeless Shelter thru December 2003.
• Thursday December 12, 2002 Converted Church Council/Pastor-Parrish (under STAFF menu)pages to remove phone numbers and add link to address database for each individual. Since the address database is maintained by the church secretary, it will be more accurate.
• Monday December 9, 2002 Added pictures from Childrens Program and Santa visit on December 8.
• Tuesday December 3, 2002 Added ability for church staff to post a message that will appear on all web pages. Such as cancellation of events due to inclement weather.
• Monday December 2, 2002 Added December Newsletter. Used html format instead of PDF.
• Sunday December 1, 2002 Added pictures of Prayer Partners making advent wreaths.
• Tuesday November 19, 2002 Added "Request Username" to the Login page under the MEMBERS section. This will allow Church Member request a username so they can view the church mailing list online.
• Monday October 7, 2002 Added sign-up for AUMC E-Mail Prayer Chain. Link on Home page.
• Sunday September 29, 2002 Added pumpkin patch ad. Link from Home page.
• Saturday September 28, 2002 Added pictures from Fall Festival and first day of pumpkin patch.
• Thursday September 26, 2002 Added pictures of unloading pumpkins.
• Sunday August 25, 2002 Added pictures from Youth rafting trip on New River in West Virginia.
• Friday August 21, 2002 Added "Dear Pastor" on Home menu under Pastor's Corner. Allows anyone to ask the pastor a question.
• Friday July 26, 2002 Added pictures from Day 4 of Vacation Bible School on July 26.
• Thursday July 25, 2002 Loaded August Newsletter.
• Wednesday July 24, 2002 Added pictures from Day 2 of Vacation Bible School on July 24.
• Tuesday July 23, 2002 Added pictures from Day 1 of Vacation Bible School on July 23.
• Monday July 22, 2002 Added pictures from UMW Ice Cream Social on July 21.
• Saturday July 20, 2002 Changed the scroller on the Home page. The other scroller was causing undesired effects in Netscape 6.2.
• Saturday July 20, 2002 Modified music page to use Windows Media to play music. Opens in a new browser so you can continue surfing the site while you listen.
• Tuesday July 16, 2002 Modified footer to include a counter for the number of times the page has been read.
• Monday July 15, 2002 Created a visitor info section under the Home menu. Moved "A Message from the Pastor" to this section and added a "Church Tour" to show visitors where things are. Other items will be added to this section soon.
• Saturday July 6, 2002 Standardized the footer on every page to include church name, search capability, date page updated, acknowledgement to GBGM for web space, and Contact Church link.
• Tuesday July 2, 2002 Added Guestbook to site. Hopefully visitors (members or not) to the site will register so we know they were here!.
• Thursday June 27, 2002 Added members section. Currently used for administrative purposes but will eventually provide a password restricted area for church members and staff.
• Monday June 10, 2002 Added pictures from Western NC Conference at Lake Junaluska.
• Sunday, June 9, 2002 Added search capability to site.  Located under Miscellaneous category under the Home menu.
• Monday, April 29, 2002 A brand new look. Changed church logo, background colors, etc.
• Monday, April 29, 2002 Added Graduate form to allow graduates to notify the church office via e-mail.
• Sunday, April 15, 2002 Added Youth Ministry Purpose Statement under the Youth Menu.
• Sunday, April 15, 2002 Added "Couch Taters" ad under the activities menu.
• Friday, April 13, 2002 Added HELP link at the top right side of the page.
• Monday, April 2, 2002 Added Children's section to the Youth menu.
• Friday, March 15, 2002 Added new link on the Links of Interest page
• Sunday, February 17, 2002 Added New LENT menu item.
• Tuesday, February 12, 2002 Added new photos to the photo gallery.
• Tuesday, February 6, 2002 Changed Beige background to blue/w cross and flame watermark..
• Saturday, February 2, 2002 Modified layout of staff page to fit on one page.
• Friday, February 1, 2002 Added Monday Night ad at startup.
• Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Added new Igniting Ministries Logo on Igniting Ministries page off the Home menu.
• Monday, January 28, 2002 Added Arrow graphic to mark whick side menu item you are selecting.
• Friday, January 25, 2002 Added Dabbs Baptism pictures in photo gallery.
• Sunday, January 20, 2002 Added About the United Methodist Church under the ABOUT AUMC menu.
• Friday, January 18, 2002 Added LINKS of INTEREST under HOME menu.
• Thursday, January 17, 2002 Added new UNITY class to the Sunday School class list under the ABOUT AUMC menu.  Also added the Unity class email address to the Message Center menu.
• Monday, January 14, 2002 Redesigned menus.  Removed CHILDREN and What's Cooking menu items and moved contents to the ACTIVITIES menu.  Added MUSIC(was automatic) and SEPT 11(Moved from HOME menu) menu items.  Added SCHEDULES menu items.(moved from ACTIVITIES menu)
• Monday, January 14, 2002 Added Daily Devotional(Upper Room) under the HOME menu.
• Monday, January 14, 2002 Added What's Changed Menu item on home menu.
• Late August 2001 - Archdale United Methodist Church Website brought up.