This morning I had coffee with my pastor for two and a half hours. It’s been a long time since we had a one on one meeting and it was great to sit and talk. We talked about a number of things, but the main thing that came out of this meeting is that I will likely be responsible for re-designing the church web site. This is a major project for me as I am really only an amateur at web design, but still it’s going to be a great challenge for me.
The good thing here is that I haven’t really contributed to the church in a long time other than to be a seat warmer. Now I’ll be giving to the church and at the same time improving my skills in a hobby that I enjoy doing. Clearly The Lord is at work here. Talking with the Pastor I found out that there is no firm deadline so I will be able to work at my own pace. Important because I have two small children and a full time job that take up loads of my time as well.
The good thing here is that we have a functional web site that will continue to work while I am designing on a development site. I’ll be able to incorporate all the features we currently have and some additional new features that will hopefully improve the site for both visitors as well as back end users. The best part will be that everything will end up being fully integrated using the same web software that I am using to run this blog, Expression Engine.
Expression Engine is not just blogging software, but is really an uber powerful CMS with extreme flexibility. Oh the joys of truly learning how to use it in a more in depth and powerful way than I currently am. Please pray for wisdom and knowledge and time to complete this project in a timely and well done fashion
I won’t be able to start work on this until September due to other commitments and travel plans. With only a couple of hours a week to spare it will probably take me until at least November to get it done, but more realistically early January. From mid-December I’ll be on a 10 week vacation and will be able to put serious effort into the site and complete all the little, difficult nit-picky things that I am as of yet unaware of. Should be a fun project.
Posted by The Hollow Man on Friday Jul 27, 2007 at 01:55 PM in The Church | The Hollow Man |
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