Les Simons will help you (Les@SalemLutheranGlendale.org). Most of the pages on the website were written by Les and nearly all the pictures were taken by him. But he can attend only a small number of the total ministry activities of Salem Lutheran Church. And he may miss yours.

    But you can fix the omission! If you want to add a page to the website, let's do it! Call or email Les with your questions.

    Some suggestions that inform our page development include these guidelines. We try to keep things simple with short paragraphs. A photo or two, when possible, or a drawing will add significant impact.

    (If you have a digital camera, you can email the images to Les [warn him first so he will expect them]; if you have "prints," give them to him at church on Sunday and he will scan them and return them to you the following Sunday undamaged. Les will decrease the image quality slightly to speed-up page downloading. He will adjust the large images so that they will be no wider than 500 pixels and small ones are uniformly 250 pixels wide. See other Salem webpages for examples such as Walk by the water )

    Check your spelling and examine your grammar. Have a friend read your submission (Fresh eyes often see writing from a different perspective and can make helpful suggestions.) and then email it to Les. If you do not have a computer, write up your article and he will transcribe it for you. Or give him the information (written down) and he will compose the article from your input.

    Most often we use only first names when we talk about Salem members on the website (exception: professional staff) because we frequently know who, for example, Cara is in the choir or who Joel is among the ushers. And we always substitute the church phone number for home phone numbers and we replace private email addresses with church ones.

    Single events often work well on a single page. Ongoing programs, where additional activities may be included later, often should be designed as a front page so that additional pages can be added later with links from that first page.

    Your page will be part of the ministry from Salem to the whole world. Treat your submission with caring responsibility -- but do submit it. One of beauties of Salem's website is that anything can be changed, fixed, updated, deleted, or added almost immediately. God bless our ministries together.