PARDON OUR GROWING PAINS!  THE NEW WEB SITE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.

No doubt if you are a frequent visitor to the Presbyterian Church of Los Gatos web site, you've noticed our whole new look.  Cheryl Sharpley, a freelance web designer who lives in Los Altos and is an active member at Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, has just redesigned our web site.

With the help and cooperation of our Pastor, Rev. Mark Burnham, Publications Coordinator Shirley Harned-Kelley, and Music Ministries Director Michael Gibson, the site has been reorganized and reordered, using our teal-navy-brown spire-among-the-trees logo as color inspiration.  The navigation has been tucked away in a cascading menu system that fits at the top of each page.  Hold your mouse over each menu item and each will expand both downward and sometimes sideways to show you more pages available in that part of the menu.  A link to the home page and the site map is located on the bottom of each page, just in case you get lost and need help finding your way home.* 

And some of you may have bookmarked favorite pages from the previous site.  For the time being those pages have been archived and are still available online. You can see the former site by going to: http://www.pclg.org/archive/index.html .  Other favorite archived sites may be Shoestring Theatre, or The Kirkin' o' the Tartans.

Among some features new to the web site are:

• a Youth page, with breakout pages that feature Youth photos and "from the Youth Director"
• a Meet the Staff page with bios and contact info all on one page
• a Going Green page that will highlight our church efforts to be earth-friendly
• a featured Covenant Group page -- this month it's the Fireside Group -- we hope to have pages on all the fellowship groups soon.
• an In Memoriam page to highlight those in our church family who have been reunited with the Lord

A web site is a constantly changing, living directory, guide to, and record of the life of our church.  And while this one is still being tested and fine-tuned, we hope you will let us know what works and what doesn't.  We all want the site to be clear and navigable and welcoming to those within and outside our community of faith.

with questions, comments, concerns.

*Speaking of finding your way, this is 2008, so the site doesn't say "click here" or "click there" . . . we assume users know that something underlined is a link to another page or item on a page.  Similarly the images that change color or form when you mouse over them indicate that clicking on them will take you to a linked page or paragraph. Use that mouse.  Click away.  Enjoy.  You can't break anything by exploring!