As some of you have noticed, we've had a few problems with the website this year. Because of a problem that originated at the end of last school year, but was not noticed until the start of this school year, we have not been able to update certain pages on the site. After looking into the problem, we decided that rather then throw more time and money at the problem we would begin transitioning to a new website.

You may have noticed the somewhat unified appearance of the site. Some pages, this one for instance, look like they don't fit with the rest of the site. That is because we moved the dynamic portions of the site to the next version of the software that runs the site. With that change we hoped to buy some time while we did some behind the scenes work to prepare for the new site.

Some of you have been involved in the card-sorts and wire-frame evaluations that have helped us decide on the navigation and layout of the next site. We will soon be presenting that information to a company who will help develop a theme for the site.

Follow Lincoln Lutheran on Twitter for the most recent school information.  You don't have to have a free Twitter account, but if you have one, you can choose to have announcements sent to you via text message.

Take a short survey to help decide where items should be on the new website menu. No experience needed.

Instructions are included with the survey. Basicly, you will be given a menu and a set of questions like, "How would you find Mr. Ziem's email address?" You drag that question onto the menu item where you think that answer should be. There are no wrong answers.

Here's the link to the survey: http://websort.net/s/347161/

Because of our recent website problems, we've been slowly moving things over to the latest version of the software that powers our website. One of the benefits of running the new software is that we can provide information in new and exciting ways. Twitter.com is a micro-blogging site. Think of it as a way to provide very short updates to people who are interested in what's going on in your business, organization or personal life. These updates can be viewed from Twitter's website (which isn't really any better than viewing them on Lincoln Lutheran's website), from your cellphone, and in a few other ways. Twitter is a free service. If you're interested in trying it out, sign up for an account at Twitter.com and follow lincolnlutheran.