Author: Jan Klán

Dear parishioners, dear visitors
welcome to the new website of the Mariánské Lázně parish.

The new look is based on the graphic style of the parish designed by my sister Martina¹ partly already in 2021. From the same year you can also read the parish newsletter in a new format. The primary colour is blue with complementary gold, the Marian colour with the liturgical color of celebration. Different shades are also the colours of our town.

However, the current design of the website preserves the basics of the previous one, which was the first ever on the farnostml.cz website online since 2014. Most of the elements of the website layout have been preserved, including the main navigation menu in the page header, the basic font and format with the right sidebar with changes in events. However, over the 10 years of our website's operation, not only have current graphic trends changed, but technology has changed as well. The majority of internet sessions are via mobile phones, so even on mobile phones you can now see the full main menu, something that modern web design approaches have enabled for several years.

I would also like to draw your attention to the user-friendly page with notices in PDF, but only computers are still the best able to handle these. Every Sunday around 7 o'clock, new notices are displayed right inside our website (or available for download) and there is no need to be redirected outside.

Foreign visitors, I believe, will appreciate the English version of our website, which is now available.

And since the website is supposed to serve you – parishioners and visitors – Martina and I would like to ask you for feedback on how you like the new look and what you would like to change; what information should be moved, what is missing or what looks cluttered. In the questionnaire (available only in Czech, but feel free to fill in a message in English), out of the five questions, one is also dedicated to the newsletter (published only in Czech), which was changed two years ago.

And if you don't like the new style yet and it's making your job more difficult, you can go back to the old style for at least a few more months by clicking the last button in the main menu on the top right. After switching to the old style, the site will flicker a bit, but it has and will have all the current information in it.

I wish you a good Easter holiday.
Jan Klán Jr.

parish webmaster

1. Martina Klánová graduated in Graphic Design and is currently an animation student at UWE Bristol. ↩︎