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Notes on the PresbyKirk Web Site

PresbyKirk is the official website of the Presbytery of Hamilton of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. As such, we desire to be a responsible source of information about the Presbytery of Hamilton and the life and work of the individual congregations within the Presbytery. PresbyKirk also includes a significant Library of Internet resources for the benefit of our Church constituency and for the use of anyone who visits our site.

The first thing that we must acknowledge is something that will be fairly conspicuous to anyone who spends any amount of time here. This is very definitely a work in progress. On the one hand that causes some frustration for both those maintaining the site and those using it. However, it is a part of our accepted vision that a web site is never really completed. It can always be improved upon, enhanced and expanded. We hope to live that part of the vision here at PresbyKirk.

As Canadian Presbyterian Church web sites go, PresbyKirk has a long history. In the course of the past decade the site has gone through a number of significant revisions. In the world in which it began PresbyKirk was quite magnificent. However, as web technologies and tools mushroomed we have struggled to look cool. Our most recent transformation (September 2007) again both refreshed our image and expanded our horizons. Though we are aware of so much that could be improved, we are quite delighted with what has been achieved.

PresbyKirk has from its beginning been designed and mainatined by people who were not web professionals. We have always been conscious of our technical limitations. This new face of PresbyKirk represents another change in platform. We have now moved to being a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) based site. The template for this site is not of our own creation. As the footers on the various pages indicate, the template was designed by Andreas Viklund of Jokkmokk, Sweden. Andreas is a very talented guy and his template design seems to suit our needs very nicely. We are grateful for his skill and generosity. This template was originally created in 2005 and then released in a revised version in 2006

From all reports our site should display well on all the major web browsers. If you have problems with it, please make us aware of them.

We are also indebted to Google for the use of their map technology and for a web tracking system called Google Analytics which runs behind the scenes to provide us with useful statistics that enable us to appraise and maintain the site.

The colourful PresbyKirk.com banner was designed by Harry Bradley, our recently departed (not from this life but from this Presbytery) Webmaster. For a further explanation read about the Web Committee.

Finding Your Way around in PresbyKirk

It had been our intention to create some sort of organizational chart to assist navigation on the site. However, the site design is so dynamic in its linking capacities that this is both difficult to illustrate and quite unnecessary. It is very hard to get lost on this site. You can connect to all the major pages on the site from the navigational menu on the left hand side of every page. Even the sub pages from those major pages have this same navigational menu on them. Also, you can go directly to any page in the PresbyKirk Library from the navigational menu on any other page. Movement on the site is really quite fluid.

You should also understand that any link on PresbyKirk that takes you to an external website will open in a new page on your browser. That means that you do not have to use the "Back" button to return to where you were. Simply close the page by clicking on the red x in the top right hand corner of your screen and you will be returned right to where you were in the PresbyKirk material.

Copyright © 2007 R.J. Bernhardt | Design by Andreas Viklund of Jokkmokk