Just in time for the Holidays!

I’m pleased to announce that Christ Memorial Church here in Holland, MI has launched their new website. 

The site was designed by a CMC staff member, and Boyink Interactive implemented it on ExpressionEngine, which allows the church to distribute responsibility for content maintenance to multiple church volunteers and staff members.

Some of the content is forthcoming, but it often happens the new site reached the “better than the previous site” tipping point.  Going live with the new site often seems to be the best way to “inspire” those responsible for outstanding content to “get ‘er done” as well.

From an EE implementation perspective the highlights of the site are:

• Use of EE segments and conditionals to reduce the number of templates required.  The bulk of the site content runs through 3 templates.
• EE integration with the Monoslideshow tool for the Flash animation on the home page.  This integration allows the church to update that Flash piece by simply posting a new EE entry consisting of a new image and the descriptive text.  Christ Memorial can use the EE publish and expire dates to ensure that event-related promotions appear and disappear from the site at the right time.
• Rotating header images are implemented using another EE weblog, each image being one entry and the presentation set to random.

Congratulations to Christ Memorial!