by Bill Magargal

Last year about this time the Tech Team announced a project to refresh the appearance of the US Servas website to make it easier and more intuitive to use. We are happy to announce that their efforts are bearing fruit.

The initial work was spearheaded by the marketing and SYLE teams under the leadership of board member, Tys Sniffen. They sought out and commissioned a web developer to redesign the Home page, SYLE page, and streamline the Servas page banner, menu, and footer. The new pages are much more attractive, plus they contain a lot more information. Here is a link to the new Home page if you want to take a peek. The SYLE page is also much cleaner looking and it too has a lot more useful information (see SYLE).

In addition to the screen layouts, we are streamlining the menus. In the "About Us" menu example below you will note that there are four items in the "About Servas" submenu. Previously, these were listed under the cluttered "About Us" menu. Also, the 4th item on that menu is Board of Directors where visitors must be logged in to see the submenu items, otherwise they can only click on it to see photos and small blurb about our current directors. The "Board Business" menu choice will take logged-in members to a page with board minutes, and actionable items like the merger vote mentioned in the (March 2025) issue of Open Doors. The election items will only appear at certain times of the year when appropriate.