The St. Joan of Arc website, in its current incarnation, is now a year and a half old. Some Asian cultures believe a baby does not become fully human until 1 year of age. It was around stjoan.com's first birthday that we appeared to fully achieve website status. The website has become a depended upon part of the SJA community by a significant number of parishioners and former parishioners around the world.

Statistically, we appear to have leveled off in visitor usage, another indication of maturity. Use of our website is currently averaging from 250-300 users a day viewing 1200-1500 pages of material. Although these numbers may gradually rise over the next few years as more parishioners come online, our growth spurt from the early months appears to be over. Another sign of maturity is that visitors are visiting a wide range of sections of the website. As the amount of content has increased, viewers are clicking to the new regions of the website. Here are some of the features of the website that are popular:

• The Sunday Bulletin- the online version has everything the paper one does and more. The scripture readings are clickable so that you can read the daily scriptures online. We archive the previous 3 weeks of bulletins so that you can look back on something you missed. The bulletin remains one of our most popular pages.
• The Features Section- We currently have about 70 feature stories on aspects of SJA life and general interest. A new one is added at least every 2 weeks. It is here you will find some very good writing and photos that have won the website awards.
• The Audio/Video Highlights- Fred Vagle has collaborated with a group of people to produce weekly audio/video highlights of Sunday Masses.
• The Sunday Mass and Music pages- Who will be speaking, who will be singing in the future?
• Events in Review- Our attempt is to report on and photograph every activity at St. Joan of Arc. It is perhaps an unattainable goal. Our reporters have attended and reported on about 150 events in the last year and a half. Many more have gone unreported. We need more reporters; parishioners who are willing to put their name on a list with no obligation except to consider writing a report on an event you attend. If you would be willing to put your name on that list, visit this page for details.
• The online Calendar- Darlene Arbuckle in the office is working with our webmaster to make sure that the calendar on the website is as up to date as it can possibly be.
• The Staff page- All staff members have email now and you can find their address at the SJA staff page.
• The Sunday Readings- are online and archived for one week.
• Upcoming Events- a description of all upcoming events at SJA.

We also recently switched webhosting companies in an effort to improve service and save money. Our current contract hosts all of our pages, including the audio/video and provides unlimited email boxes for staff for about $35 a month. All of the labor by the webmaster, reporters, photographers, and web designers is volunteered. In the last year, we have added an online contribution link that has raised some money for the church. We hope to make this website a no-cost effort by opening a small Stjoan Store online to sell archived music and homilies.

Starting in May, we began offering online registration for many programs and services. You can fill out the Shared Ministry form, sign up for the nursery or religious ed programs and register for SJA events requiring registration. You can even contribute online via a secure transaction webserver here.

Currently our webteam numbers over 70 parishioners with a need for more especially in the area of webreporting. Fifty seven members of our team have signed up for reporting on events and feature stories. They have not been able to keep up with the pace of events at SJA. Because the webreporting job is a no obligation, do-it-when-you-can opportunity we probably need close to 200 parishioners signed up to cover every SJA event. Please consider adding your name to our list. About 20 parishioners have a digital camera and are on our webphotographer list. We could use more people here also. We have 6 parishioners on our team who have adopted a section of stjoan.com and are maintaining/updating it. You can see who is on the webteam at this page.

Jeff Rholl is the volunteer webmaster for stjoan.com.

The St. Joan of Arc website has evolved over its last 20 months and will continue to evolve to meet the needs of the community. If you have suggestions for how to improve the website, visit the online comment page. Thank you for visiting www.stjoan.com.