You may have thought our developers had fallen off the edge of the world as there have been very few noticeable changes to systems recently.  However, they have indeed been beavering away with things behind the scenes.  Unfortunately, many of these were long-overdue structural changes to the software, as well as much needed maintenance (which, I am sure, isn't much interest to you).

However, I am pleased to say that these improvements to the 'back-end' will help us roll out important enhancements in the future.

Here are some changes to the site that are a taster of what's to come!

New Drop Down Menus

After nearly 8 years of use, we have retired the old horizontal tabbed menu format to navigate around the site.  The old menu, although great in its day, had limitations to what it could do plus it made navigating to different pages sometimes cumbersome.

The new menu structure allows you to quickly and simply navigate to different areas of the page without have to go "via" another page.  It means swapping from the bank ledger to the envelope allocation screen is now ONE CLICK away instead of the two or three.

The drop-down menu will be improved overtime with the ability to add to a favourite menu, to navigate even easier.

New Style Template

You will also notice that we have changed the look and feel of the software also by changing the headers, footers, style of the inner pages and the colours.  All these changes are not just for cosmetic reasons (although we do like playing around with fancy colours and images).

They not only help us standardise our customers' software templates but will allow us in a future update to give you the chance of selecting your own colours and styles to use while entering your information.  So if you don't like orange then change your system to red!

This all helps with the interface and ensuring our software is as easy to use as possible.

Other Improvements

1. Envelope Labels:  Labels can now be printed out for all parishioners within your parish.  So, if you want to complete a mail merge for all parishioners then you can simply print out the labels.  You can of course just generate for envelopes as well. 
2. Lock out:  The locked out screen did not always provide a message that you were locked out but instead simply said you were logging out.  We've corrected this.