New Site - First Baptist Church of Wichita, KS

One more thing, how did you make the cool menu with the second level appearing underneath on mouseover? Really smooth stuff you have going on there!

And who did your logo design? Was that in house? It's genius. I know I shalt not covet, but I wish I was on the team at your church! :P

Boyfly, I need to find out if I'm breaking the Tenth Commandment by coveting your team. I wish I had even two helpers who understood that a website is more than a picture of the church with links to one page for each committee. Also, I would love to have a congregation that's willing to participate in all the activities involved in developing an effective site.

You and your team have done a marvelous job. I like that your design is distinctive enough that all the WordPressers can't recognize it as a Drupal site right off the bat.

I do have two recommendations for improvements, though:

• Adding another footer. The University of Prince Edward Island, in telling about re-theming their site, mention (scroll down to the h3 "Footer") that they discovered that a footer with tons of links in it worked amazingly well. Check out the UPEI site and see what you think. I get the sense that it was out of frustration that they came up with this answer — nothing else worked, so why not? What would I put in such a footer for your site? I would start by repeating every link in your primary and secondary menus (by "secondary," I mean the ones that appear on rollover), except for "Home" and "Contact." In this footer, I would make each of the remaining five primary items a column head, and put its respective secondary items beneath it. In a sixth column, I would have the Login link, then links for RSS, Twitter, Facebook, and so on, and perhaps a link back to "Home" at the very bottom. Except for the Login link in column 6 and your copyright statement (which would go at the very bottom of the page), I think I would leave everything else in your current footer just as it is, above this new footer. One advantage of this approach is that, without being ostentatious, it puts a "Give" link on every page. Imagine how frustrating it can be to learn from the site of a nonprofit that you would love to support what it does, but to not be able to find a link that will let you do so. These informative footers aren't that common. I've seen them done well (I think UPEI's qualifies as "done well"), but I've seen them done poorly (and I'll let those sites remain anonymous, mainly because I can't remember where they were). So don't wreck your site to add it, but do think about it.
• I'm still learning to build calendars myself, but I would see about developing a way to filter the view. It would be great to let the user choose to see only the events for young adults, or events for children (and their parents!), or just committee meetings, and so on. This feature would also alleviate the visual clutter the calendar of any healthy church produces. If I figure out how to do this, I will add a post to the "Churches" group. I guess I should start by searching for the answer — maybe the solution is already published somewhere on drupal.org.

I'm really impressed with your site. You've set a high standard for the rest of us to emulate.

cool. I tried using a background image in the <li> and padding it to allow space for the image. It worked, except it shows up for each item and you have for each but the last.

Anyways, if worse comes to worse I'll add the code like you did, but I'd rather use some css. thanks for the information and taking time to respond.

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Could you expand on what you mean by "import automatically"? Are the nodes created automatically when someone uploads an audio file?

If so, how are you accomplishing this? A module or some type of CCK/Views configuration?