Church Website

[deejmer]

Here is my latest project for a local Church.  http://www.wgpc.orgThis was a fairly large project, over 80 pages of content and a few modules implemented:
Front End User Management
Form Builder
Polls Made Simple

Training was a big deal on this, and I made some video tutorials that I'm getting ready to share back to the wonderful CMSMS community?  Think folks will be interested in this?

Let me know what you think folks!

[thingzzz]

Well Done,

Nice and crisp. Admire the design aspect.

Did you design the layout and css yourself? What do you use for inspiration?

I just completed my first site in cmsms. I find it really hard to redesign the layout as it works great in the demo layout

I was going to make a screenshot tutorial for my client who is totally novice to computers, But yeah a video tutorial would be great help to this community.

It might inspire me to create a few tutorials myself, just like you have inspired me to go and make my site more eye-candy

[deejmer]

So yes, I did find "inspiration" through another open source design a woman somewhere in Europe had out on the web....it was called "Red Pepper" but thats all I remember.  I changed it a lot, but the guts are definately there.  I like to use oswd.org to look for insipiration as there are many fine CSS-based templates.  Most you can use however you want and can customize them from there.  I also tend to create sites from scratch as I'm a web designer (no developer) by trade.  I'll be posting other work here as I use CMSMS more and more.....

As far as the tutorials, I uploaded them to JumpCut (a YouTube like deal), so I will share them somehow....I just need to make them public and organize them in a way that people will get use out of it.

[erajis]

Love your implementation of cms on this church site. Beautiful work.

[dlpirl]

Great work!  We'll be working on a church website next -- our second site using CMS MS , so am interested in your implementation. You didn't mention the Calendar module. I am guessing its the CMS MS Calendar module. Is it?

[deejmer]

yes, its the CMSMS calendar module.  And actually, I'm working with another member to test his implementation of a recurring event designation which the church I built this for sorely wants.  So keep your eye out for that as it may come in handy.

[dlpirl]

Come in handy?! No kidding! Recuring events are essential! Actually, having done a church website using Easy phpCalendar, its very hard for me to go with the CMS MS Calendar mod, since its so much less functional -- not only does EPC have recurring events, but color coded event grouping, AJAX hover popups, etc. Its really hard for me to take a step backwards just to avoid a separate login for the calendar. I would love to be able to devote some personal programing time to bring the cmsms calendar up to that level, but that's not a realistic possibility right now.

[pshouse]

How did you implement the "back" and "home" button that show on some pages, but not others?
I think you didnt use different templates for different pages, but just coded some script in one template?
Did you use custom tags? Would you share basic code or idea?