Tyler Vineyard reloaded – version 2.0

Web Redesign May 16, 2006

We had a good meeting last Thursday.  Below is my attempt to summarize our ideas and thoughts.  Feel free to add comments/edit this post to include things I missed.

Take a look at our current site at tylervineyard.com and it will make more sense.

 Look and feel – Cool, It's obvious why Boyd is a rock-star. 
Could be a little lighter – this is a church not a club.  We do want to make sure we catch the right vibe and don't come across as blah or stuffy or churchy.  Couch photos – casual living room. Blue Jeans, coffee – emphasise unchurched, too churched.

Home Page 

No flash intro – maybe some opening flash animation in a header, but nothing that obsucures the content.

 Address, phone number, map link and service times promenent on the front page before you click anything and at the bottom of all pages.

 Sections – again leveraging a lot of what was there before:

Services - Kid's Church, Club 876
Beliefs -
Vineyard doctrinal statement
Critical to clearly explain for people checking us out.
Culture -
Church for the unchurched and over churched

People -
Andy and Noreen
Head shot, short bio and history of vineyard

Missionaries
Picture where/what maybe map of world with thumbnails for each one..

Mention small groups

Worship -
Picts of worship team, value statement, link to Vineyard music. Possible links to good albums, Eisley link – they deserve it, besides the extra traffic we bring them would just be overwhelming   It would be cool to get a couple of mp3 tracks that you could download or stream, maybe even use them as optional (off by default background music).  I don't know what the legalities of cover worship songs there are and how big a deal it would be to hook into the sound board and digitally record (I bet it's a question of how perfectionistic you want to be about mixing/post-production).

The Scoop
(Big old Coffe Scoop of course)
New Section for church members -
Bulletin Items – Activities
Calendar
Login / Private Directory
Small Group info
Flickr Badge
Blog Ring
Prayer Request/Prayer Board

Vicki was going to work on Colors
Jill already has some new pictures she took on sunday up in Flickr.

Ryan and I were going to try and pull some of the current content out of flash and get the technical backend cranked up.