New Site - St. Matthew's UMC and The Rockingham Church

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jwatson3d's picture

We've launched our new Drupal 6 website (http://stmattumc.org) after four months of planning, organizing, building and testing. I have many years of technology experience but this was my first foray into Drupal. Our team consisted of six volunteers who meet "virtually" using Skype and Microsoft's SharedView (http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94). I hosted a sandbox to play in using a machine in my house that's running CentOS 5.3.

We narrowed the list of features to announcements, calendaring (CCK and views), ministry pages and sermons. Even with that small feature set the list of contributed modules grew to a total of 30 including cck, colorpicker, contact_forms, content_access, ctools, date, ffpc, filefield, getid3, image, imce, jquery_ui, mimemail, nice_menus, panels, simplenews, swftools, token, views, and wysiwyg (ckeditor).

Credit for opening my eyes to Drupal goes to Matt and Rob and their Geeks and God Podcast (http://geeksandgod.com/). My new friends at the NH Drupal group (http://groups.drupal.org/new-hampshire) gave me confidence, support and encouragement as well as freely sharing knowledge to help the 'n00b' get through it. :)

Comments

Congrats!

miche's picture

You did an excellent job and have graduated from n00b status with flying colors!


Michelle Lauer
michellelauer.com

Great Job!

Cliff's picture

I know how challenging it can be to develop a website with a church. Congratulations on not only accomplishing it, but getting it done with a content-first approach. My hat is off to you!

Great Job

andy_goldberg's picture

It looks great! I too have just launched a UMC website as of the first. This is my first foray into drupal, and am now hooked. Please take a look and tell me what you think. I still need to figure out posting sermons in conjunction with iTunes. It is www.songoflifeumc.org.

site design

flashup4all's picture

nice job
i want to build somethinng like this for a church in my area,
please could you help me with the riquired modules and how to go about it.
i have never design a church site before.
please e-mail me through flashup4all@yahoo.co.uk

site design

flashup4all's picture

nice job.
i want to build somethinng like this for a church in my area,
please could you help me with the riquired modules and how to go about it.
i have never design a church site before.
please e-mail me through flashup4all@yahoo.co.uk