After months of experimenting with different looks and different coding methods, I finally changed the page layout to make the navigation menu a horizontal bar between the page heading and the page content. I quite like this look, although I want to clean up some of the coding behind the scenes. There was a bit of scare just before I updated the web site when I found that Internet Explorer 7 did not separate the menu items at all, unlike Firefox, which I used for my own testing. I still have not seen this layout on Internet Explorer 6, so I just have to hope it looks all right. Maybe I can check that at the weekend or on Monday.
One major benefit of moving the menu is all the extra space that became free on the left hand side of each page. I have turned that area into a "side bar" and posted various brief notices in it. I am not yet convinced about the look of the sidebar, but functionally I think it helps. At least it let me follow Ollie's suggestion to highlight the Sunday morning service time.
The other major change is that Pastor Bruce now has his sermons on a blog, to allow (encourage!) people to post comments. All I have done on the church web site is to provide a link to the blog (and explain that the blog is actually on a different site).
I do hope this helps start moving the church web site into becoming a channel for interaction, not just a one way flow of information.
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I looked at the new layout in IE 6. Sory, but it looks bad! The sidebar text overlaps the main body text.
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