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First Joomla site - Dalserf Parish Church, Scotland (1655)

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  • First Joomla site - Dalserf Parish Church, Scotland (1655)

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Just about completed my first site using Joomla and SubtleTrooper from RocketTheme.

      http://www.dalserf.org

      The site is for Dalserf Parish Church, one of the oldest churches in Scotland dating back to 1655.

      The site uses Joomla 1.0.12
      Theme: SubtleTrooper
      Modifications to theme: Single colour menu throughout (more suited for the church site)
      other basic mods as required

      Extensions: JCalPro
      DocMAN
      Expose Gallery (Still to be populated)
      JamBOOK

      The site was previously a static site done using Dreamweaver, but as the church want to be able to add content and edit it by themselves I moved them over to Joomla. They release a news letter ever month and hopefully they will be able to add it to the site as demonstrated.

      This is my first complete site using Joomla. I have still to upload a lot of the content, but in the mean time I would appreciate any feedback.

      Cheers

      Geo
    • Last Edit: 18 years 3 months ago by George Price.
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  • Re: First Joomla site - Dalserf Parish Church, Scotland (1655)

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • I would swap the generic pic of the trees and replace with a shot of the church (specially seeing it is so old and historical).

      Looking really nice ;)
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  • Re: First Joomla site - Dalserf Parish Church, Scotland (1655)

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Thanks for the comments.

      I do intended to change the picture, and will once I find my disks. After a recent house move most of my backup disks with all the pictures are still in a box in storage. That's my next move, to add pictures to the gallery and replace the page graphic.

      Cheers

      Geo
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    Re: First Joomla site - Dalserf Parish Church, Scotland (1655)

    Posted 18 years 3 months ago
    • Looking nice... agreed. Nice to see another church using Joomla.

      One tip, though... I'm not a big fan of the calendar you're using. I tried it, too, and found it far too confusing and unattractive. I spent a little bit of the church's money and got EasyPHPCalendar, and haven't regretted it one bit.

      You can see it in action at http://www.wesley-umc.com.  There's a Joomla mod for it, and I've modified it to filter certain events (which you can see an example of on the Ministries/Youth page on my site. Lots of different and really usable views, but does take a bit of tweaking to get just right. The church office staff handles keeping all the events on the calendar just fine.

      Bryan
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