Webdev weekend
posted by Jesse on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm
WARNING: Do not read any farther unless you want your GeekFactor to be raised by approximately 17.82 percent!
Ever since coming to Quebec, I’ve been wanting to help out the church here by redoing their website, which the pastor has been wanting to do for quite some time as well. A few weeks ago, I found out that the pastor’s son, Jonathan, and another guy, Benoit, both have done website development (webdev) before. Between the two of them, they have a working knowledge of html, css, and php, and I have a bit of experience in Wordpress, which is the platform we used for the site. So, on Saturday they came over to our house where we set up our “Webdev Workstation,” which slightly resembled something that one might see at a NASA
control room. We started at 10:00am and began working on a completely new design and functionality for the site so there can be a regular public area and a “members only” section which contains a blog, church member photo directory, and other helpful stuff.
It was really neat to see how the three of us worked together with Jonathan doing a lot of the technical coding and problem solving, Benoit doing the page setups, transferring information, and translating things into French, and me doing the visual design and work within Wordpress.
By the time the public section was done, it was 2:00 in the morning! But, we got it done. Yesterday, we worked got almost the whole members section finished, and it should be entirely done by Thursday evening.
It was a lot of fun and I learned a ton of things about webdev in the process, but I am glad that it’s almost done. Below is a screenshot of what it looks like (click the image to enlarge it) and a link to it if you’d like to check it out.
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