What have I been doing, lo, these many months to keep me away from the blog? Â Two new redesigned websites. Â Allow me to elaborate.
Pepper Road Church of Christ
I worship with the Pepper Road church of Christ in Athens, AL, and for years now, I’ve been responsible for the church website. Â I have fulfilled that responsibility with varying degrees of effort, attention, and responsiveness—lacking in all more often than not. Â I finally have gotten around to building the site within a content management system, namely Joomla!. Â Now, instead of my being the sole soul who can edit the website, our elders, deacons, and minister can author content themselves, and I have a couple of backup administrators, too.Â
We have information about the church and articles on Bible topics. Â Soon we should have sermon audio back online, and after that, we hope to have an introductory Bible correspondence course online.
I’m pleased but not content with look. Â In the interest of getting the new site out the door quickly, I have used a free template from Joomla Shack. Â It’s fine; it’s just not custom. Â I hope to get around to designing something that says “church” a little more than this borrowed template. Â When I do, this space will certainly reflect it. Â
Of course, at the time of this writing, I’m still using the default WordPress theme on this site. Â One of these days …
Conney Safety Products
Not quite a year ago, I took a job with USinternetworking (to which a friend had sold his small business specializing in e-commerce website development in IBM’s WebSphere Commerce). Â The first site to go live that I’ve had a hand in is Conney Safety Products.
Conney is a safety product wholesaler. Â The website offers a quick order feature, shopping lists that can be shared among all of the buyers in your company, and a live chat with Conney support personnel. Â There are a few post-go-live features that we are finishing up, such as an improved search utility. Â Look for that in the next few days.
If you sell safety supplies, drop by conney.com.