A New Website!
by Jeff Stokes on 20/04/10 at 8:38 pm
I would like to firstly thank Worshipful Brother Rob Romanczuk for the previous iteration of this website for Detroit Lodge. We used as much as we could from the old site and ported it to this one so your efforts helped a lot to get things started here. Up to this point the website has served as a place to come and see what is currently happening with the Lodge, mostly event related, as well as view additional information. This functionality for this website will not change, but the way you interact with it will.
What we are trying to do here is expand the usability of this website and create a more interactive experience which should result in greater information flow. We have spoken to several Brothers (if we didn’t get to you, sorry but your input is still extremely important and relevant so talk to either myself or Tommy with ideas) and received input about what they would like to see in a website. We have also extensively looked at existing websites for all kinds of Masonic Lodges, both foreign and domestic. What they all have in common is staggering. Most websites are static pages with no clickability or real navigation. Most are outdated. Most are non-informative as to anything happening there save who the current officer line is, or more frequently just who the current WM is. Sadly, and honestly most are outright ugly and would give no visitor let alone actual members any real reason to stay on the page or visit frequently (if again.)
To this end we made a decision to not make this site non-informative, nonfunctional, aggravating, or ugly (we think.)
What we ask of the membership and visitors is to help nurture and create a community here. Let us learn about our Lodge and keep informed of current happenings. Let us learn about Masonry together. Interact with the content and leave your opinions. Interact with this website by creating your own content and sending it to one of us webmasters for display. There isn’t some criteria that we are going to judge any content you create against and not publish it so don’t be timid. If you are a member of Detroit Lodge, and have something to say about Detroit Lodge or Masonry or something philosophical or interesting to you, then yes send it to us, even if it’s just a link to something you find cool.
I would also like to credit some text on this site which is uncredited in post. Bro. Russell Spice and J. Smith both had information on either their websites or the 150 Epic Years of Detroit Lodge No. 2 book respectively, found in the current posts concerning our Lodge history and the Detroit Masonic Temple.
Happy surfing Brethren.
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