31. August 2010 by admin.

I’ve had some rather funny-looking PHP errors while testing so far. This is why I test before putting things on the main site! The most recent resulted in a sideways isosceles triangle of events instead of a calendar!

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29. August 2010 by admin.

There are some slight differences on the church calendar page now. This is kind of intermediate step for me getting things organized into something more calendar-like right now, even though it doesn’t look like much from your end. The events are all in a database now and accessed using some fairly tidy PHP. Basically, that means I just have to figure out how to format it and make it look nicer now, and that I’ll be able to make it easier for me to update the website with newer events (not that it was especially hard in the first place, of course!)

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25. August 2010 by admin.

I mostly made a few minor changes today. The most noticeable is probably the home page, which now has actual information on it!

Since AWANA starts soon, I should probably get some information about that up in the ministries pages too. I’ve never been involved in AWANA, and only know a little bit about it. If you’ve got some information that would be good to put up, I’ll take it! I have some pictures already too.

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23. August 2010 by admin.

Soon (by which I mean probably within the next couple of days) I plan on changing the layout of the home page to include announcements and a link to the most recent sermon and getting rid of that “I’m working on it” message. The link to this blog won’t be there any more, but I’ll still be keeping it up.

I think the next thing I’ll work on is getting the calendar into an actual calendar format. That may take a while, since it’ll include setting up a database and writing some code for it. I’m hoping I can get it set up to print in a very “printer friendly” way too so that you could choose a month, print it out, and have a nice calendar page ready. We’ll see how that goes!

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18. August 2010 by admin.

There are now links to two sermons on the home page. I’m learning a little about Adobe Soundbooth CS4 for that one. I didn’t really think I’d ever be using that program much!

Also, Deb Tamanini got a bunch of pictures to me! I have a lot to go through, but I did add some to the His Helping Hands page and the disaster relief page.

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17. August 2010 by admin.

I’m working on getting a downloadable MP3 sermon available soon! That’ll start with the beginning of this series on James. I’m working on figuring out how to get a decent file out while keeping the size down right now. I have Adobe Soundbooth CS4 to work with, which gives me plenty of options, but I don’t know how to use half of that program! Wish me luck and pray!

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10. August 2010 by admin.

I added a handful of items that have been in the works for a little while here. The one you’ll probably notice first is that I added a few pages to the “Ministries” section. I want some opinions on those. What other information should be on them? I’d like to add some pictures and some testimonials from people who have participated, but is there anything else that needs to be there?

Second, and somewhat less noticeable in most cases, I added some alternate style sheets. One is for print. It eliminates background colors and navigation buttons from the page when you print, since they don’t have much purpose there and generally waste ink! The mobile one moves the navigation from the left side to a simpler menu at the bottom. It’s set for “handheld” devices, which will work for a lot of you, but for handheld devices that don’t conform to common web standards - iPhones and certain Blackberry browsers, for example - they may not pick up on the mobile style sheet. I’ll try a fix for that shortly.

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28. July 2010 by admin.

I made some minor, behind-the-scenes changes today that should help keep things running quickly in the long run. You won’t notice a difference now, though, since there wasn’t much up there yet in the first place. Just trust me on that one!

Also, I’m aware that the ministries buttons don’t go anywhere just yet. They’re mostly up there for me to make sure I have the submenu popping up at the right time in the right place. I’ll get some images and information and get things updated shortly.

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27. July 2010 by admin.

So, you may have noticed that the TBC website has been a little “Spartan” lately. And by that, I mean that only two or three of the linked pages worked, and the rest just gave error message. Also, the most recent information on the calendar was from 2006 or so.

I’m working on fixing that.

You’ll have to bear with me, though. This is going to take me a little while, of course, and at first (within the next couple of weeks, that is) there will only be a very basic website here. You’ll see only a handful of pages and they’ll be almost entirely text. I’ll need to gather more information and plenty of pictures to use here. Here are a few other features on “the list” that I’ll get to in whatever order I see fit unless people start asking for a particular feature to be done more quickly. I will gladly welcome any suggestions and feedback.

• A real calendar
• Blogs (if wanted)
• Ministry pages
• Prayer requests
• Maybe some RSS feeds to alert people to prayer requests and blog updates
• Recent sermons available via download and/or streaming audio
• Page styles specifically for mobile browsers and for printing

The ministry pages are taking some thought. I’m not sure how to divide those all up. We’ve got:

• AWANA
• VBS
• Ocoee Outreach
• Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
• Food Pantry
• Annual Easter musical
• Christmas Angel Project
• Operation Christmas Child
• Thanksgiving meal
• Baptist Builders
• Participation in CP missions (including Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong)
• His Helping Hands
• The ones that I’ll remember as soon as I publish this blog post

Originally, I thought about dividing them up into categories for local, national, and worldwide (you know, the “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the world” theme) and including a paragraph or so for each, but that doesn’t seem sufficient for some of them. Ultimately, it might be nicer for each one to have their own page including information about what the ministry does, how to be a part of the ministry, and how to let us know if you are in need of that ministry in some cases. Then what about the seasonal ones?

Your feedback is much appreciated.

(Additional note: I’ll soon move this blog off to a different subdomain of the website, webdev.ttownbaptist.org, so it’s not “in the way” here. )

Section for nerds starts . . . HERE!

You were warned.

I’m using Dreamweaver CS4 for this website, which is a first for me. I’m much more used to typing out code by hand. Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG interface and behaviors have saved me a lot of time already, as has learning to use Dreamweaver templates properly. I’d appreciate any tips or suggestions for that too. I’ve got the entire Web Premium CS4 suite, and I’m sure I’ll be learning some new tricks in all of it!

The website is hosting on a Linux plan with 1 And 1 web hosting, and server-side scripting will be PHP based, since that’s the server-side language I know best. That isn’t to say I don’t still have a lot to learn in PHP, but I’ve got a much better start on that than C#!

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