DavidHumphries .co.uk

For some time now I have been working on a new look and system for St John the Baptist Church in Wateringbury, Kent. Today the new site final goes live after a long number of months work by many people. The over all finish is nice and I did find it extremely challenging to find a style that I felt worked for the church. I have personally visited this church before and have found it to be a fantastic place, even if you are not religious like myself, it is well worth a look if you are ever near there.

It was hard to find a feel of what the site should look like, my previous designs had all been far too modern and since this church has so much character I wanted to work that in to the design. I first had a go and drawing up ideas almost a year and a half ago. I came up with these ideas below.

Nether of these would work however as they only had minimal updating ability and more control was needed. So I started to work on a Wordpress powered site for them. This would allow for a much more controlled site and providing function as well as looks for the site. My first attempt I wanted to work with warm creams and add more of a glow to the over all feel to the site.

This was very much a step in the right direction however it still lacked in some feel and when it finally came down to the comity, they decided that since the door to the church is blue, so should the site. I did a quick play around with the image colours and then the CSS and the final theme was born.

Despite the problems of the old webmaster not transferring control of the old domain sjbwateringbury.info and having to go through a third party for the feedback, I belive the site came out well. This was in fact my second and third Wordpress themes, my first being PuppetBoy and my fourth being ccEquestrian. My next development stage will be to work more in to CSS and additional functions based on tags/category to give a more appealing front page, it was not however suitable in this project to do so.

The next step is unclear, additional functions will no doubted be incorporated however I am satisfied that this site is a substantial enough upgrade from there previous site.