Church website provider
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- Philip Smith
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Hi everyone,
I've been working on this site for a couple of weeks now and I'd like to go live with it in the near future.
www.churchwiz.com
I am looking for comments on a couple of things if you don't mind:
- Do you find Internet Gazette a good choice for the kind of site I am presenting?
- Is there something obvious missing from the site's content?
I've been considering making a switch over to Versatility II before going live, simply for the fact that I could use the SMF theme and have a proper layout for the forums. I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks very much. - -- ChurchWiz - Easy & Affordable Church Websites
-- www.churchwiz.com
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- Mark Gomez
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The site looks great. I have been thinking about doing something like this when I get more time. Right now I built and manage all our ministry websites and I'm very impressed with what you've put together.
I think Internet Gazette is a good choice. The layout is simple and clean and draws attention to the examples and screenshots.
The forum looks fine, but I understand what you're saying about the consistent template. Also, when I opened the forum, the "Contacts" link from the top menu got pushed to a second row (I'm using Camino and Safari).
What do you plan on using for your audio and video downloads? We use Loudblog in a wrapper and are very happy with it.
This is a great service you are providing and is very necessary, especially for some smaller churches that can't afford a full time tech person on staff. I would be interested to know how you get on with this.
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- Philip Smith
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Thanks for your comments.
Even after trying to dig through the SMF css files for a little while I wasn't able to find the item that was pushing the nav buttons down and to the right. The other issue is that all of the buttons on the page (login, search, etc.) get black lines drawn through them.
I was planning to use Docman for the audio/video stuff for churches for simplicity's sake, possibly changing some of the language within it to give it a different feel. I also want to make use of JoomlaCloner when I set up new accounts for people so keeping everything within Joomla makes things a lot quicker. - -- ChurchWiz - Easy & Affordable Church Websites
-- www.churchwiz.com
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- Mark Gomez
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That's weird that the Forum is making the menu behave so strangely. On my browser the lines are red. I never thought of Docman for that purpose. It does seem like the easiest way, although it would be nice to make it possible to listen on the internet.
Where did you get some of your church templates? I did a lot of searching for church templates but settled on Fire. I'm thinking about changing it though.
I'll have to check out JoomlaCloner. That sounds like a really good idea.
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- Philip Smith
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Templates are all just screenshots that I grabbed from templatemonster.com. I don't own any of them of course, and have to purchase a license for any one that I use as I go along.
The issue with the forum is that I'm using Internet Gazette for the site but Versatility II for the SMF layout.. and somewhere along the line the css code from one is messing the other one up.
btw, the templates only come in html/flash format with psd source files, and they all have to be converted to Joomla layouts so there is more than a little work involved
I checked out your site as well, the content looks great! - -- ChurchWiz - Easy & Affordable Church Websites
-- www.churchwiz.com
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Hi - really like your site!
A couple of things. On your forum - the buttons have the background image
.../rt_smf_versatility2_sienna/images/access-wide.png
which is creating a unreadable button with the text.
And it looks like the red divider is created by
...rt_smf_versatility2_sienna/images/toolbar-div.png
Also - it would be cool if on the examples page the links were clickable.
Really nice work and hope some of this helps.
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- Philip Smith
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- Thank you for your research on that. I have been working on the layout over the last two days, and also made a big change to the template selection page, which will now be using JoGadgets gallery feature. I will post again when I move the new layout online.
- -- ChurchWiz - Easy & Affordable Church Websites
-- www.churchwiz.com
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- Thomas Cellineri
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Great work there Phillip, you make Carbination breathe by taking out alot of clutter.! I just installed the carbonite temp. I LOVE this gorgeous black gradient look. We want to put our logo in but really need more room than what is allowed for the .png. I am not interested in making transparent .png files because IE6 doesnt handle transparency well. So we want to do what YOU did with the ChurchWiz logo. How were you able to enlarge the dimensions? Just a background .jpg? I would appreciate any direction you could give.
I recently made a ministry site using joomla, see it here www.inthefathershands.com (great content there) also one of my businesses is fundraising for ministries through an exclusive coffee arrangement. Check out my site (technopia temp) www.mundocoffee.com (I know you are familiar with this temp as well
Keep up the good work brutha! - Blessings,
Tom Cellie
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting
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- Philip Smith
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Thanks Thomas. For the header I just opened up the original header source file in Fireworks and then imported my logo to the file. Once it was in there, I set my logo to the size I wanted (and hid the original logo) and then enabled the "Web" layer. In the web layer, I resized the slice for the logo and exported that slice as a new image. The only other adjustment was in the CSS files. I had to enter the new width and height info for the logo, and then kept making adjustments to "top" and "left" placement until the logo matched up exactly with the rest of the header.
Hope that helps
Phil - -- ChurchWiz - Easy & Affordable Church Websites
-- www.churchwiz.com
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- Excellent job Philip with the Joomla site. I am always a fan of clean,clear and functional designs. I noticed you modified the administration back-end's look and feel. Is this back-end redesign all your own work our you using another package to get that great new easy user look and feel? I have not really paid much attention to the back-end for most of my site but love to do something similar to what you accomplished. Any help in where to look would be greatly appreciated.
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