I really enjoy doing church websites. I believe if you are going to have a presence on the web it needs to be a good one. Often times churches put up some really poor web page to just put some basic information on it, and to an internet savy generation, this can really make a bad impression on people.
Well, the church we are currently attending here in NOLA has been in need of a website. So Diana and I put together a layout (she does the design and creative stuff, I do the code and other technical stuff. We make a good team :-) ). Then we showed it to Charlie (our pastor), and he liked it. Then I proceeded to build the website. I used Rapidweaver of course, and built the site using CSS and html and now the site is posted at GraceForNewOrleans.com. Also, we set them up with Google tools, and I think that google tools is the new way to go. With Google tools you can set up all email addresses through your own domain (like something@graceforneworleans.com) and still use the greatness of Google’s spam filters, calendars and other features. It’s the best of both worlds.
Let me walk you through the design and creation process:
This is the first layout we came up with. We eventually dropped the sidebar.
The background Diana came up with.
One of the headers we had to choose from. (Diana took the pictures and edited them, by the way.)
Another possibility for the header.
This is the header we decided to go with.
The final result.
Go check out the site and then come back and leave a comment to let us know what you think.
http://www.graceforneworleans.com
If your church’s website needs a little facelift please let us know. We work fast and we are pretty darn cheap (not free, though…we have to eat, too…and pay tuition, and bills, and other things like that).
Wow! That is a super duper amazing site! It must be worth at least 2 or 3 thousand dollars. Churches and businesses and everybody else should definitely call you to make their websites and give you all their money. And that’s some pretty amazing photography and design skills, too. I’m sure Diana would love to offer her services for a minuscule fee of a couple thousand or million dollars, too. You guys are so amazing, people should just send you money because you’re so awesome. I’ll be sending you some money for sure, and I think everybody else should, too!
-Anonymous
(really…anonymous…this is definitely not Diana…it’s an anonymous commenter who just stumbled upon this amazing site…I promise.)
Great job as always, guys!!
Of course I agree with “Anonymous” because if y’all make that much money I could get some really cool birthday presents.
If people are that excited about giving us some money maybe we need to set up a donation button through paypal.
Not too shabby! things look good. Just to let you know, in firefox, the church office number is cut off alittle. you can still make out the number, but the bottom of the numbers is cut off.
Another good looking site.
Thanks for the tip Dave. Don’t know how that slipped past us. :-)
No problema!
Good job guys. It looks great, I hope you get lots of other websites and lots of money
love you both
I love the site! I think it would be great if people would send you lots of money. Then you guys could buy lots of groceries so Diana could cook for me every night!
I like the new site Jake! It looks really good!
Hey guys looks great!!! How are yall? I haven’t been able to read much lately been kinda busy here at work! Anyways hope all is well!! Talk with you soon and keep up the good work!!
Theda
The website looks great. You and Diana are such a great team. Don’t worry the $$ will come to those who wait and do things they love.