I've been asked to provide feedback for upgrading our existing Parish website. It is located here.
As you can clearly see it looks horrible. I decided that it's better just to create a proof of concept rather than just say "this is what we need it needs to be a WordPress website", because finding examples of well-functioning Church websites using WordPress isn't exactly easy. StMatt's Waniassa uses one.
It looks like they've just used an off the peg theme and there's so much more they could do with it. Also do you really want to have your "Site Administration" link on there? Of course not!
I put together a proof of concept that implements the functions I think we are looking for. As I need to present this idea as a possible solution in a couple of days I would like feedback about what you think and especially if you have any further ideas of improvement that I've missed.
The proof of concept is here.
For reference here is my original list of requirements:
1. Intended to serve the needs of people on the outside.
2. So questions like: Where are you? Who are you? What do you do?
3. We will not in the first place be looking for a place to put rosters and parish contact lists or minutes of meetings etc.
I have taken this to mean that information categorized by (3) may still be relevant, but shouldn't be as prominent as promoting current events and basic introduction.
As you can clearly see it looks horrible. I decided that it's better just to create a proof of concept rather than just say "this is what we need it needs to be a WordPress website", because finding examples of well-functioning Church websites using WordPress isn't exactly easy. StMatt's Waniassa uses one.
It looks like they've just used an off the peg theme and there's so much more they could do with it. Also do you really want to have your "Site Administration" link on there? Of course not!
I put together a proof of concept that implements the functions I think we are looking for. As I need to present this idea as a possible solution in a couple of days I would like feedback about what you think and especially if you have any further ideas of improvement that I've missed.
The proof of concept is here.
For reference here is my original list of requirements:
1. Intended to serve the needs of people on the outside.
2. So questions like: Where are you? Who are you? What do you do?
3. We will not in the first place be looking for a place to put rosters and parish contact lists or minutes of meetings etc.
I have taken this to mean that information categorized by (3) may still be relevant, but shouldn't be as prominent as promoting current events and basic introduction.