Hours on your church's website

[Faithhb_lutheran]

Hi all,

Jason posted a question in his introduction a little over a month ago about how many hours do we all spend working on our sites on a weekly basis? I think this is a good question but I am going to expand on it a little bit.

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
4.)How many hours do you spend on content?
5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?
6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

Have Fun

[chrisb_ebc]

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?

I manage everything through GoLive. I have a "Site" file created and all my pages are based off a template I created in Photoshop. I just edit content from there. Most of its static stuff. I have a calendar system that updates the front page itself. Based on a week in advance and filtered categories. I used to do this by hand. Thank goodness I don't anymore. I have a daily verse displayed from www.searchgodsword.com

2.) How many hours do you spend on design?

I don't do any major design at the moment. Probably took me about 8 hours total design time. Probably shows. Now I only work on little items/graphics. Usually around 40 min or so.

3.) How many hours do you spend on development?

Not a whole lot either.

4.)How many hours do you spend on content?

Usually around a hour or 2. Updating Podcast and messages page. As well as adding calendar activities in advanced.

5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?

I was volunteer but I am payed a minimal fee. I don't care about the money. Thought it is nice getting a little extra cash a month.

6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?
I am currently maintaining 3 sites. Our church's, the school site that our church runs and our youth group website. - Those are full time. I work on a friends website on occasion but have not done much with that. Other than that thats about it.

[AtlanticWebfitters]

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
4.) How many hours do you spend on content?
5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?
6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

1. I have my own CMS Web Portal Software (CMS with WYSIWYG)
2. I spend about an hour designing a graphic skin that runs across every page.
3. I have a "flow chart" system clients fill out.
4. My clients all update their own content.
5. I volunteer to teach Portal Software (but charge a nominal monthly fee to run my servers)
6. I can run hundreds (thousands) of web portals from one login.
CMS WebPortal Demo (http://metromix.atlanticwebfitters.ca/)

[JackWolfgang]

Hi all,

Jason posted a question in his introduction a little over a month ago about how many hours do we all spend working on our sites on a weekly basis? I think this is a good question but I am going to expand on it a little bit.

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
4.)How many hours do you spend on content?
5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?
6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

Have Fun

1. One hand coded and one in the process of being put into a CMS with a couple hand-coded pages (contact forms and location page based on Google Maps API).
2. Good question.
3. Another good question. Quite a bit right now as I develop a theme for WordPress.
4. Hopefully less once I get the CMS in place.
5. Both Volunteer.
6. Two.

[flutem3]

Well, let's see here.


The website is definitely WYSIWYG, Homestead. However, I have begun to learn how to use HTML snippets for all kinds of things...like the syndicated movie, book, CD reviews from www.umc.org (http://www.umc.org/). They are great for adding new information on a regular schedule.
Development - right now lots of time because I am redesigning the website. That translates to a hour a day.
Design - same as above
Content - 2 hours a day on the grand search for information which will be of value to members and non-members alike.
Maintenance - 1 hour a week
One website but I help with color on some others.
Volunteer and it is such a joy!!I go back and forth to the computer working for short stints...an hour because I hurt too much if I work longer. That is one reason that some things take longer than they might. The other reason is that I still am rather new at this. Some things that more experienced people might do rapidly take me more time.

However, I am of the opinion that a decent website takes a fair amount of time to develop, design, and maintain. It is a matter of degrees and what kind of site it is...static or dynamic.

Carol

[Faithhb_lutheran]

well now I guess it's my turn


The main site I work with is CMS and with my work schedule that is where I want the rest of them to go
None I have curtis for that ( i still get to toy with things but that's not work)
I spend five hours a week on graphics and tweeks for random minor sites
ten a week
Pay (HA!) I must of been off my rocker when I wrote that question.
1 & 2 (both CMS) ,3 (static site),4 (almost done) ,5( sort of)

[GuruGreg]

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?

Handcoded ColdFusion running on top of a mySQL DB. It's getting to the point of being it's own CMS though.

2.) How many hours do you spend on design?

Pretty much only when it needs changed, which isn't all that often.

3.) How many hours do you spend on development?

On average, probably about an hour a week, but it comes in spurts and is much higher some weeks.

4.)How many hours do you spend on content?

Here, no more than an hour a week. Usually the pastor will supply me with some of his writings to post on the site, and then a few announcments as they come.

5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?

Volunteer, but I didn't go to Tennessee

6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

Just the one church site right now, but I'm managing five different sites overall.

[mrbelfry]

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
I hand code all my sights using phpdesigner. I predominately use php, mysql etc. My personal site uses wordpress so some might consider that a cms. Most of my sites are a mixture of dynamic and static content using smarty as a template engine.

2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
Not as much as I'd like to. I'm currently redesigning our missions site so I'm spending maybe 10-20 hours a week on that

3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
Not as much as I need to! Again see above.

4.)How many hours do you spend on content?
lol - no where near enough. I'm sure I have similar problems to most here - nobody gives me any content!

5.) Do you get paid or volunteer?
I'm paid by the church for many services (general admin, youth pastor etc) and doing the website is part of that

6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?
5 public websites plus an intranetty type thing in our office so 6

[ckvkkeek]

Hi all,

Jason posted a question in his introduction a little over a month ago about how many hours do we all spend working on our sites on a weekly basis? I think this is a good question but I am going to expand on it a little bit.

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
4.)How many hours do you spend on content?
5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?
6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

Have Fun
1. WYSIWYG and hand coded.
2. Not much anymore, spent MANY hours initially on it.
3. Depends on what I am developing. Adding a new feature generally takes a few hours.
4. Not much, I have the design already layed out so I just put the content in there.
5. Volunteer for my home church. Highly doubt I would let them pay me. I do charge another church that uses me on the side.
6. To many to count... probably 15+... its a side job.

[CPC Melissa]

Hi all,

Jason posted a question in his introduction a little over a month ago about how many hours do we all spend working on our sites on a weekly basis? I think this is a good question but I am going to expand on it a little bit.

1.) What type of site do you have (WYSIWYG, hand coded, CMS)?
2.) How many hours do you spend on design?
3.) How many hours do you spend on development?
4.)How many hours do you spend on content?
5.) DO you get paid or volunteer?
6.) How many sites are you maintaining at a time?

Have Fun

1.WYSIWYG
2. Zero now, about 10 hours per site when building
3. 1 hour a week per site
4. 1 hour per week per site
5. Volunteer
6. Maintaining two sites for my church. One is our main church page, and one is an outreach ministry

[flutem3]

Hi, Melissa,

Welcome, welcome, welcome. It is good to see more people jump aboard.
What kind of WYSIWYG program do you use?

I have been trying to figure out how to check out our new website design so that it will be okay for people with various kinds of color blindness.

Do you know how to make that kind of color check? What I am think is to have a place where I can put a small block of the color I am using for background with the color of text I am using, and then the tool will tell me whether that is okay or not. I am certain that something like that exists, but I have no idea what to call it. I have looked at mucho pages, but nothing sounds like what I am after.

David, forum administrator, or the rest of you, do you of such a tool which is free? I hope you do. I am trying to do better. I have learned about alternative texts and when and when not to use them. I was pleased that I learned why they are used. Now, I have discovered I have gotten carried away. :D Is anyone surprised!!

Again, Melissa, welcome to our happy throng!! Well...maybe not quite a throng yet.

Carol