New Look for GFL Site
— Posted by Eric (April 11, 2007 at 3:57 pm)
After several weeks of consultation with Annie and John, I’ve launched a different look for the Generations for Life website. As you can see, we’ve added some pictures across the top of the page, a new banner, and a colorful “Main Menu”. We’ve also simplified the organization of our main pages (the permanent content, as opposed to the blog).
We hope that these changes will help to highlight our mission at Generations for Life of helping teens to become pro-life leaders by establishing pro-life clubs as their schools and churches.
I’m still working on the coding for some of the features of the redesign. The menus on the left side of the screen will be modified soon such that only the items for the current section (blog, Q&A, etc.) appear there, making navigation a little clearer. Other elements of the page may change a bit over the coming week or two.
Comments on the new design are welcome.
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Young Christian Woman says:
Doesn’t work in opera
Comment posted April 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Eric says:
Dear Young Christian Woman—Can you tell me more about the problem you’re seeing in Opera? Exactly what isn’t working or looking right?
I tested the site in Opera 9.02 and it looks just like it should. Can you tell me what version of Opera you’re using (look under Help–>About Opera to find version information).
By the way, John and I have been hard at work fixing some bugs that wormed into the system thanks to our changes. I apologize for anyone who has been inconvenienced by broken links. If you’re running IE5 you might be having some problems; you ought to upgrade to IE7 anyway (actually, you ought to switch to Firefox or Opera!), but I’m working on fixing those bugs too.
(The trouble is it’s hard to develop WordPress offline, as I usually would, since it’s a big database run program and I do not have our database on my local server.)
Comment posted April 13th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
God's Princess says:
I like the new setup. I hadn’t been blog-visiting in awhile and it was a pleasant surprise to come find the new layout!
God bless all of your work. And know that at least one person in this big wide world is remembering it daily in prayer.
Comment posted April 15th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Young Christian Woman says:
The pictures in the upper left go through the navigation bar and into the title.
I am using 8.something. I will download the newest version.
Comment posted April 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
lauren says:
Hi ya’ll.. it’s been some time. I found this on the internet and I found it interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPIWqdfBug
Comment posted April 15th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Rosie says:
sooo, what did Joe Scheidler have to say? why didn’t they show that? interesting that they only showed people that didn’t have an answer. Between a woman and her God? Why would God condone the murder of a child he created?
Comment posted April 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
John says:
Lauren,
A few weeks after this video first appeared online – almost a year before it was posted on YouTube — Eric and I posted comments on it.
His comments are here.
Mine are here.
Comment posted April 16th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Eric says:
Rosie: They didn’t show what Joe Scheidler had to say because the pro-abort videographer didn’t interview him, being intent on producing a propaganda piece meant to make pro-lifers look bad. If you scroll through the comments at YouTube, you’ll see a few from me.
But what does a video like this even prove, even if every pro-life activist were as unprepared to answer this question as those on this highly-edited video were?
Do you suppose every abolitionist had all the answers for what to do about former slaves should they be freed? As we’ve seen, the end of slavery led to decades of problems—would an inability to have foreseen those problems and their solutions have delegitimatized the abolitionist position?
Comment posted April 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Sunnyday says:
I like the new look and it works fine on Firefox.
Comment posted April 16th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Rosie says:
I figured they didn’t interview him.
Comment posted April 16th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
John says:
God’s Princess and Sunnyday –
Thanks for the kind words!
Comment posted April 17th, 2007 at 8:57 am
lauren says:
Hey!!!! you all are getting worked up for nothing. I never commented on the video. I think it was interesting thats all. Actually to be truthful I was quite surprised that many of the people featured were that nice. I figured they’d say Death penalty or something like that (but probably because this is a mostly catholic group, i guess not).. It’s a perfectly legitimate question though, what would you all do with a woman who has an illegal abortion?
You guys know better than me… what would Joe say?
Comment posted April 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
lauren says:
I read the comments as well in those links John.. i dont understand why the volunteers aren’t representative of the thoughts and feelings of the movement? Aren’t they really more representative than the leader? I think so.
Comment posted April 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Rosie says:
why ask? No one here will be making any laws any time soon. Whatever would be in place at the time should be what would happen. The real punishment doesn’t happen until we die though, and I imagine their guilt is pretty brutal.
Comment posted April 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm