First Baptist Church Altus
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Site Design Summary
FBC Altus was my first website to design besides my own. When I started working as the pastor’s assistant at our church in 2004, we had an outdated website that seldom got updated. After looking into getting a new one, we realized it would be in the neighborhood of $10,000!?! I told Bro. Jeff that I believed I could “figure out” how to do us a website if he would let me do it on the job. So in my spare time at work, I taught myself how to do all the things I hadn’t learned yet at home. Having barely learned enough HTML to be dangerous, I built this site using HTML and tables, with a dash of CSS. I was really just exploring CSS, as I knew that it had such potential, if I could only figure it out. Without having the slightest clue how to use CSS, I depended on Macromedia’s Fireworks to write Javascript for my dynamic buttons instead. Not only that, but I had never even heard of Firefox, so the layout breaks a good bit in that browser. I designed it completely for Explorer using Dreamweaver to blindly create a hit-or-miss layout. I just tweaked away until it finally looked decent in Explorer, even though it was a wreck in the code. With that history, this site is a nightmare to update. I knew nothing of content management systems back then, so of course I did not implement one. I am the sole bearer of the burden of updating the site weekly. (Or as weekly as possible.)
I have now redesigned the site using XHTML and CSS that incorporates a content management system, making it possible for any person with average computer skills to update the site. Check out the latest site design.
Technicalities
HTML, Some CSS, PHP, Javascript
Software Used
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft Publisher