WEBSITE UPDATE
When I rediscovered the forministry.com java-based website builder for churches the other day, I realized that it might be a solution for a problem that I've been pondering for a few years. How can I hand off our church website? I've been maintaining it since 1996 and it has grown increasingly complex over the years. I'm not a true techie but I know my way around the html world and there is no one else in the church with that much experience. So I took the plunge and moved the entire website over to the forministry.com system as an experiment. Even the least-geek should be able to work with it there. And it looks pretty good.

Overall I am impressed with their java-based system. However, there are a few glitches. If the server becomes busy a transaction can stall out. And it occasionally happens but not enough to be overwhelmingly frustrating. I know that they are working on that issue. Also there are some compatibility problems with the Mozilla-based/Netscape browsers. The end result isn't quite as clean there. But it is more than functional. So I'm going to assume that most readers are using IE and go with it for awhile. Take a look. There are still a few more things I want to do with the graphics but the concept is there.