Creating a student ministry website with wordpress

July 10, 2010 in web with View Comments

I have been working on creating a new student ministry website for several months now and finally launched it.  www.lyf.net is the site.  This was the most fun designing a site I have ever had.  The site is easy to navigate, has great content and very easy to update.  What was the trick you might ask….wordpress.

Here are a couple of things I did in designing the site.

1. Bought Headway themes as the primary theme for wordpress.  Best investment our ministry has ever made when it comes to web design. Headway themes allowed us the ability to design the site very easily without having to have a lot of coding knowledge.

2. Downloaded the slickr gallery plugin that pulls flickr images for your photo gallery.  This was a great solution to push our photos onto our website with minimal effort.

3. Moved all of our videos on to external sharing sites such as youtube, vimeo and blip.tv and then pulled them into a video sharing site called Miro Community. Miro allows you to customize the site so it looks similar to your existing website without having to format everything special for flash etc…

About Brandon Riley: Brandon is Married to Lorren Riley and currently serves as the Creative Media Producer for Sugar Creek Baptist Church in Sugar Land Texas. In his spare time, Brandon volunteers with teenagers, creates films and loves to read.


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