Flood

[iamcam]

Hi, I'm Cameron and I'm actually one of several people involved on FLOOD's web team. I'm mainly involved in the more technical tasks of maintaining the website, including coding (PHP, MySQL) and minor sysadmin functions.

We're located in San Diego, just blocks from SDSU, on the campus of College Avenue Baptist Church (we're actually a new church plant of theirs as of Jan 1).

Anyway, nice meeting you all...

Cameron

[David Gillaspey]

Hi Cameron,

Thanks for joining the forum!

Everyone, take a look at FLOOD's website,

http://www.diveintoflood.com

which is really quite good.

As background, I just added FLOOD's website to my database of home pages this morning. I had missed it when I researched California churches earlier -- the lists I use for my research are never complete, unfortunately. Someone suggested the site to me yesterday.

Sincerely,

David Gillaspey
President
Great Church Websites

[JackWolfgang]

Cameron, Welcome to GCW!

[iamcam]

Thanks!

[pmburrow]

Carmon,



Welcome to the group. It is great to have you. I visited your site. Wow! Your team has been busy. Keep up the good work.



Phillip

www.discoveryumc.org (http://www.discoveryumc.org/)

[crowsfan85]

Carmon,

Sup man. Welcome to the board? Yeah, the Flood site is off the hook. You guys did a great job on it.

I know you guys were working on setting up a CMS to manage it, because originally all the data was stored in files, no DB backend. Have you guys begun switching over pieces yet?

Shouts out to Reuben for me. We've had the opportunity to talk a bit, but it's been a while.

God bless ya man.

[iamcam]

Hi Nick - from across town.

Thanks for the good words! I'll tell the others on the team. Reuben is the only remaining person from the original design group.

Yes, the site is almost exclusively in flat files at the moment. We're currently in maintenance and content update mode. The only upgrades we're planning for the current site design is the addition of a calendar app. We have only just begun planning meetings for the CMS/site redesign, so there's almost nothing on paper at the moment. The trick will be creating a site that is both design- and information-oriented. We have also started a big push to recruit new people to the team so that they can be integrated into working on the current site while the current core group can focus on the redesign aspects without being bogged-down by two completely different jobs.

~Cameron

[crowsfan85]

Cameron,

That's cool that you guys are working on a CMS. It definitely has helped me to be able to divide up the maintenance of the site to other people. Are you guys really working on a total site redesign? Graphically you're site is as pretty as I've ever seen. Up there with www.crossroadschurch.com. Are you gonna go with a completely different look?

Anyways, God bless ya man. I'm always blessed and encouraged everytime I visit your guys' site. Keep up the great work.

[iamcam]

The Rock site is really good, too! (http://www.therocksandiego.com/). Did you write your own CMS for the site, or did you find one on the web?

We're doing a complete redesign, but we'll be looking at implementing a templating system so all the components will essentially be plug-n-play (events, features, news items, navigation bits and pieces, search, etc).