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- Cubfan
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Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 8 months ago
- Decided to drop Catalyst into my church site and I like it a lot. Used to be Vortex, and we needed a refresh.
  
  Still have a few quirks to work out, but I've only been at this for a few short hours. Check it out and pass on the comments:
  
  www.wesley-umc.com
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- Cubfan
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- OK, it's pretty well finished now. The staff and members really like the white-space when compared to the boxy look of the typical CMS template. We lived with Vortex for over a year, and it was time for a change.
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- JEM
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- Nice Job!!
  
  What are you using for the slid show in the inset?
- Thanks,
  jim
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- Cubfan
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- That's Monoslideshow, which was introduced with Bentobox Dark, I believe.
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- foteck
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- Nice job. I really like it.
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- godfuel
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- nice! migration
  
  I also am using this however am having trouble with J1.5.3 and allvideos revisited plugin. Are u using Joomla 1.0.1x of 1.5.x? and did you have any troubles with allvideos plugin??
  
  thanks in advance for anytips!!
  
  keep up the Good Work!
  
  Steve
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- Cubfan
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- I'm using Allvideos on Joomla 1.0x. Don't have the guts to jump to 1.5 because of Community Builder among other things we're using.
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- Carolyn Whiting
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- Great site! Very inspirational, both in design and content. I've come back to it several times while designing my church site.
  
  I have a question about your audio. I am totally ignorant on audio files and would prefer to remain that way Tell me, how do you get the entire service in 13mb? My is running about 80mb and too cumbersome. Are you using LeBlanc's podcast? I would like to use sermonSpeaker but I think my files are just too big.
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- Cubfan
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- We're using an MP3 ripper that takes the audio off the DVD. I forget the name but I'll find out (a volunteer posts the audio and video). I encode the MP4 podcast file into flash for the front page using Adobe Flash Encoder.
  
  The podcast program we're using is called Loudblog, and it's in a wrapper. It's simple, and I've customized the template quite a bit. Works great.
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- C. Richard Gillcrese
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Re: Church Site redesign with Catalyst

Posted 16 years 7 months ago
- Hello,
  
  Fantastic Job!
  
  I am attempting to design my church's site as well, and we want to incorporate some audio/video. Question: For your general video editing are you using a Mac or PC and what software are you using? (imovie, Final Cust, Premiere, Vegas, etc) Also are you using Adobe Flash Encoder to encode the audio as well as the video? Does LoudBlog encode the video? Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Would you mind sharing the template that you customized?
  Thanks in advance!
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