WELCOME TO THE WEBMASTER'S PAGE
designed primarily to help United Church People in Newfoundland and Labrador  to contribute to our web site, but also to help all who log on to make the best use of their visit with us.

Send Your Document/File             Send Your  Photo         Your Own  Web Site        
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SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS
Our web site is informative and helpful because of the regular contributions to our site by officers and staff of East and West Districts and Conference, and leaders of District and Conference groups, and ministers and leaders in our congregations. The webmaster's role is to receive those contributions, design web pages for them, and upload them to our web site.

It is imperative, therefore,  that Chairs, Secretaries and resource staff of Committees, Divisions, Groups, congregation leaders, etc., make a conscious and regular effort to contribute items such as important announcements, reports of activities, breaking news,  and photos of group activities, etc, or any other items that would be of interest and helpful to our people, and therefore enhance communications in our Conference.

Leaders in local congregations are also invited to submit short and concise news items about their life and work. We also welcome photos of local churches and church activities.    

HOW TO SEND DOCUMENTS/FILES?
How can items be sent to the webmaster? The preferred method is through email attachments. Attach documents, files and photos to an email and send here.

HOW TO SEND YOUR PHOTOS?
If you have a photo of your church building on your computer's hard drive, forward it in an email or email attachment to our webmaster.  Click here to send your photos. 

Or mail your photo to:
Mel Ralph, 54 Moores Drive, Mount Pearl, NF, A1N 3T9.
Your photo will be returned upon request.
Please supply the name of person who took the photograph
Thank you.

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YOUR OWN WEB SITE
Congregations are also encouraged to put links to their own web sites on our site.  For examples of web sites in our Conference go to: www.newlabconf.com/Directories.htm   Congregations that are interested in having their own web site should read on:

HOW TO START YOU OWN WEB SITE
FIRST: Contact a web site server that hosts web sites and ask about what is involved in your setting up a web site for your congregation.

SECOND: Take out a paid or free subscription with the hosting server.

PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS:
The cost for a paid subscription is normally around $30.00 a month. Servers hosting web sites also charge an "installation fee". And you will be required to pay an annual fee for your domain name.  The hosting server will also give you a user name and a password.

FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS:
A free subscription is offered by some servers.  Check with your server which may offer up to 5MB of storage space. Log on to your internet server and look for information regarding a free web hosting, or do an internet search for free web hosting. 

Your current Internet provider may offer you up to 20 MB of free space. The drawbacks with that approach is that you won't have your own domain name and advertising banners would appear at the top of each of your web pages.  Some of those banners you might not want to have on your church site!

A free hosting service I recommend for churches is ChurchServe.com.

CHURCHSERVE.COM
www.churchserve.com, a Christian-based Web Hosting company offering  churches free quality website hosting, will  provide your congregation with a  free FTP account and 5 MB of free website space, and without any advertising or banners.   Heritage United Church , the Bloomfield/Musgravetown Pastoral Charge, uses the free hosting services of ChurchServe.com as does First United Church, Mount Pearl. Check out their sites and get started.

THIRD: Secure a webmaster and give him/her the domain name, the user name and the password. You may have to pay for the services of a webmaster, or you may have somebody in your congregation with web design skills.  Or pay to have an interested person trained as webmaster. You will need a webmaster who will keep your site fresh and current. Stale sites just float unobserved in cyberspace.

FOURTH: Sit down with you Webmaster and plan you site.

FIFTH: Instruct your webmaster to upload your web pages to your site.  And send your congregation into cyberspace!

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