Comments on: Website Thinking – Part 2

By: Tim Hu

Tim Hu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:19:49 +0000

I’ve installed MODx and fiddled a little.

It looks cleaner and simpler than, say, Joomla. But slightly mysterious to me is how the resources are ‘hooked up’ at the frontend display.

I’ll bug you for a demo when college starts again.

By: Ben Hudson

Ben Hudson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:36:04 +0000

Thanks Tim,

yeah MODx is my CMS of choice at the moment. Let me know if you want a demo.

By: Tim Hu

Tim Hu — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:23:23 +0000

Really nice site Ben! A side question: did you use modx mentioned a while ago on this blog?

By: Ben Hudson

Ben Hudson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:36:29 +0000

Hey Astrid – yep, good call on the beliefs… I just stole them from AFES – it would definitely be worth doing some work on that page.

cheers

By: Astrid

Astrid — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:28:52 +0000

I think its good to think about how outsiders may percieve things. When I went ‘church shopping’ I found that the websites were designed for christians who know the whats what of church.

Like the 10 beliefs – it was good for me but it would be interesting to take some of these to the street to see what normal people would think of them.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:35:10 +0000

Thanks for the thoughts Mikey,

I’m collecting all the feedback I get and I plan to go through it all when I do a 3 month review… so I really appreciate it.

By: Mikey Lynch

Mikey Lynch — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:25:14 +0000

Great stuff man, very helpful.

A couple of niggles/matters of taste:

1. I’m not so sure about renaming ‘Services’ to ‘Sundays’, I don’t think the ambiguity is that extreme, as we are still used to the different meaning of ’services’ in a religious context – ‘memorial service’ and so on. I also don’t like the emphasis on the one day of the week that ‘Sundays’ gives. I’d probably just go for ‘When and Where’ or something like that.

2. Does ‘Contact Us’ need to be a primary link in quite this way? Can’t it live as a footer to the web page?