This site has been evolving almost on a weekly basis with ideas
of those both inside and outside of the congregation, since 1999.

Our initial website was created circa 1998 by our past president, Daniel A. Greenberg with the advice and assistance of Rabbi David Eligberg. In late 1999, our congregant, Gary Bergman, took the reigns and gathered content from every arm of the congregation. In the summer of 2008, a committee was formed to redesign the site from scratch. What we have today is the result of that endeavor with improved tree-structured menus, graphically designed by David Spivak of Design Solutions, and implemented by Gary Bergman.

 
The right panel, which you are reading now, contains the page's main content. Every effort has been made to make it easy for our web volunteers to concentrate their efforts in this section without having to be too concerned with the overall site structure.

If you look around this page, you will see many items that are common to all of our web pages, such as the icons and menus at the top and the footer at the bottom. These sections are defined in external JavaScript files that are invoked by just a few simple lines of code at the beginning of each page. The index on the left is similarly defined externally to content of the web page.

You will notice, throughout the site, that every page is classified by one of three possible color schemes: blue, green, or purple. Each color scheme has three index sections, corresponding to the main drop-down menus you see above (About Us, Prayer, Learning, etc.). These were developed using Tigra Tree Menu PRO and exist in separate JavaScript files for each color. blue_tree_items.js
green_tree_items.js
purple_tree_items.js
  red_tree_items.js
  (for the 404 page)

Every web page has a near similar set of JavaScript statements at the beginning which generate the common sections and define which color scheme and index trees are to be used. The details of exactly where and how the indexes are defined, is available on the site's maintenance page but, you can simply look at the HTML code of any page to see how these statements are used.

A single JavaScript "title" statement is coded in each page which specifies the color scheme, index  blue, green, or purple heading, index variable, and main heading. The following example is the actual title statement as coded in this page that you are now viewing:

<script type="text/JavaScript">
title("blue","About Us",ABOUT_US,"Communications: About This Website");
</script>

An easy way to create a new web page for this site is to find one that uses the same index and color scheme. Bring that page into your editor and save it with a new name. Then just change the title statement and concentrate on the content.

 
Before you can work on the content of a webpage, you need a way to download it to your computer for editing and publish the results back to the server. We have a unique Websharing System that provides a safe and easy way for our congregants to do this automatically.

This system provides automatic backups and ownership management to insure only one person at a time can be working on a specific page. There are no FTP FTP:  File Transfer Protocolcommands to learn and no log-in procedures required. Just specify the name of the page and, if no one else is currently working on it, it will be opened for editing on your computer. All that's needed is some basic knowledge of html coding. Lessons are freely available online or by contacting the webmaster.

Join our many volunteers who help make our web site a true Online Community.

 

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