First Baptist Church of Manlius
September 26, 2009 - 9:08pm
It's a large improvement
WEll, it's a large improvement over the old site! Good job!
Some design critiques:
- I'm not too fond of the rollovers in the primary navigation--the button covers up part of the top bar, and I think they should give the appearance of being "tucked under" the top bar, like they are dropping down from behind it.
- I'm also not too big on underlines disappearing when you hover over them... it jars me about and makes me too aware that it happened. When you add a single underline, it enhances the design, when you remove a single underline from a design, it calls attention to itself in a completely different way, IMO.
Other than that, it looks pretty good!
Blessings,
Tony
November 27, 2009 - 1:21pm
November 30, 2009 - 1:58am
Contact information
I highly recommend using the Contact module to provide means to allow site visitors to email the church's staff. AVOID PUTTING EMAIL ADDRESSES ON THE SITE! It's simply too easy to have the addresses end up on SPAM lists. It's very easy to customize the standard Contact page to provide phone numbers, street address, etc., and provide a form to send email messages without displaying the actual addresses.
Also, don't worry about the number of CSS files, especially during development. Once the site goes live simply turn on CSS consolidation and you'll be down to a very few CSS files and improve site performance.
Curt
December 17, 2009 - 9:31am
Not bad. From a usability
Not bad. From a usability standpoint (especially with older web users) you should have a "home" link as a primary link.
Also, I'm not a fan of email address on websites. Use the contact module to a) protect your church from spam and b) it's convenient in that visitors don't have to open their mail client.
I recently updated our web site from static HTML (http://archive.firstbaptist-manlius.org/) to drupal (http://firstbaptist-manlius.org/).
For right now I am trying to keep the list of modules as low as possible to keep maintenance easy.
FCKEditor (for the couple folks that may actually help maintain the content, but are not HTML guru's)
nodetype (Right now most of the content is on "pages", but as new people come in to help, I'll be able to switch the node type to "youth page" or "missions page" for users to edit those node types)
pathauto (for nice clean urls)
search404 (to help users who wander in here via a search engine that hasn't crawled the new site yet)
token (dependency for pathauto)
views (for custom blocks and feeds of different content types)
xmlsitemap (to help the searchability)
I'd love feedback!