As someone who works in web site design, I would offer that the ECUSA web site as it currently exists is pretty much fine.  Seems like an ill conceived use of resources…..

Except that “as it currently exists” today, July 8, is the NEW website design.  Looks good.  My pet peeve, though, is having to remember what the blue, green, yellow, and red banners mean on pages behind the home page.  The only way to know is hover the mouse over the banner and look in the bottom left-hand corner.  As for content, no comment.

Deck chairs, Titanic, etc., etc. . . .

“Easier navigation, better search functionality, and a more modern style”

Yep thats ECUSA alright!  Making “christianity” easer for everyone.

Gloria in SC

I did not like the redesign a couple of years ago, which replaced a Christ icon figure with smiling people.  I thought it was sort of a pander to the “you tube” mentality.  (This is a common feature of a lot of non-profit websites, esp. museums and churches.  The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has pictures of people looking at art on its front page, but you can’t really see the art.)

This is a significant improvement, and the those involved are to be commended.
Randall

Of course, I would love to open a church’s website, and at least see a verse of Sacred Scripture, and perhaps one of the following: God, Jesus, Christ, LORD, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.  ECUSA’s website has none of these.  Perhaps this will get “worked in” with the revision.

Wow, everyone has gone off the wall. I applaud ECUSA on their new web site (and also on the new carpets in their entrance hall), since no one else seems able to keep substance separated from silliness…

I don’t see the point of obsessing over the website design, when it functions as a gateway to pearls of wisdom like this:

On Christ:

Sometimes he [sic] is the Son of God; sometimes he [sic] is a prophet to this devastated world; sometimes he [sic] is just someone I can talk to. – Jim, Choirmaster and Organist, Texas

(I know, I shouldn’t criticize: “sometimes” being the Son of God is an improvement over the teaching of some of the clergy.)

And sells books like these:

The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Weapon in America

Antigay Agenda : Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right

Beyond Our Ghettos : Gay Theology in Ecological Perspective

Rubbish is Rubbish no matter how it is organized.

What was Jesus comment about the pharisees and whitewashed tombs?

Jim Elliott <><

Straining out a gnat, and swallowing a camel?
Whitewashed tombs?

I think it’s a good effort, certainly better than their last one.

Yeah right, navigation into the wrong harbor.

What *isn’t* there is darn interesting.  The “Seeker’s Center” used to be a good place to see a mueum piece Modalist explanation of the Trinity.  What a loss.  I think the last educated cleric must have got to the webmaster in the last year or so, for it was there til very recently.

Lipstick on the pig….
Intercessor

Kind of like the Vichy public relations campaigns of the 1940’s trying to convince the world they were the “real Free French,” much as TEC is the “Real Anglican presence” in the USA and everywhere the TEC flag is planted.

I’ll miss the old sermons of “Smoky” Magers and a few others from the archives. The last 5 years have been “great________;”  . . . a lot of “Pastor Niemoller’s” need to wake up.

Choose this day whom you will serve.

My blog reader (Google Reader) doesn’t show comments; you have to click on a link to see the posting itself.  Why is that relevant?  Because every so often I see “TEC does X” postings in my blog reader, where X is something utterly mundane.  And I know, before I even click on the link, that a large percentage of the comments will quickly jump into dyspeptic griping about what those ambassadors of Satan at 815 should have done to proclaim The One True Faith.  Such comments address the actual topic of the post in about the same way that Churchill supposedly made martinis: by nodding briefly at the vermouth bottle across the room, then turning his attention to the real object of his affection, namely the gin.

To give credit where it’s due, sometimes the barely-on-topic griping here can be imaginative and even clever (recall the hiking-in-the-fields scene in Saving Private Ryan, where Tom Hanks explains to his men how, hypothetically, he would gripe to his superiors about their mission).

I also know before clicking on the link that I’ll seldom have to read more than 5 comments to get to one of these barely-on-topic gripes. In this case, DeeBee didn’t disappoint, coming in at #3.

This is what gilding the toadstool looks like. LM

Whew, I was afraid my watch had stopped.  I was thinking just the other day that we were past due for one of D.C.‘s regular visits, in which he pops in to thank God he’s not like other men.

It’s certainly not off-topic to point out, pace #3, that no matter how pretty you make those deck chairs, the ship is still sinking.  Of course, some in TEC have an investment in it sinking, so any alarm would seem ‘dyspeptic.’

Anglicanum [#19], those who insist on dragging every conversation, no matter what the topic, around to their particular obsession, are generally regarded as bores. Sometimes they talk themselves, and each other, into believing that’s the price of being a prophet, but they should read what Deut. 18.20-22 has to say about wannabe prophets. Time will tell whether TEC is going down the tubes; we don’t need to be constantly reminded, at every turn, that in your opinion it is.

Good point #20; now, look in the mirror.

Phil [#21]:  <irony>I tip over my king, sir. </irony>  Actually, I’m well aware of, and try to contain, my own propensity along those lines.  It’s the main reason I don’t comment here as much as I used to — I seldom feel I have much new to say, and dread the thought of inadvertently being a bore myself.