The Rock - Ames, IA - Matt Heerema : Web Design

The Rock - Ames, IA

The Rock, Ames Iowa, a branch of Stonebrook Community Church (my church) focusing on college singles and 20-somethings. This site was near and dear to my heart, so of course, got a little extra attention. I developed this site, end-to-end, (planning, design, integration into the CMS) the logo is by Relevant Solutions and the CMS is Ekklesia by Monk Development. I did have a little help from Tony Hill, who took care of some loose ends, and was advised by several others (see below), but overall consider this to be the current flagship of my portfolio.

Features

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2
Custom Planet integration for blog aggregation.
Powered by the Ekklesia system.
Blog, Podcast, RSS
A Flash featured announcement banner powered by SlideShowPro, injected into the site using SWFObject
Photo gallery using phpFlickr and the Flickr API to integrate members’ Flickr photos.

Special thanks to everyone who advised and helped make this happen

The folks at Cramer Dev
The folks at Monk Development
The folks at Godbit
Tony Hill (for his amazing code schlepping in Python and PHP), this guy did a ton of work.
Kirsten Hill (content master)
Brandon Kleinke (photography)
Russ Graves (fixing my cron jobs)
Steve O’Hollearn (content master-in-training)
A few others I forgot (general design and direction advice)

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5 Responses to “The Rock - Ames, IA”

Ben T. said on: August 21st, 2006 at 8:55 am
Nice. From when you showed me that screenshot I could tell it was going to be cool but that really is a great resource for a church. A+ for you and the rest who helped in my opinion.
D. Goodmanson said on: August 23rd, 2006 at 11:42 am
The site looks great! Awesome job Matt.
Eric Atkins said on: August 23rd, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Nice design. Great work. I really like it.

How does SWFObject compare to SlideShowPro? They look the same to me - even the menus. Just curious as SSP is not free.

I also couldn’t get your site to validate strict. :/
Matt said on: August 23rd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Eric - that was a typo. It IS SlideShowPro, injected into the site by SWFObject. I’ll be correcting that. Thanks. Validation errors should also be fixed by the time you read this ;)
Eric Atkins said on: August 24th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Ah! I guess I wasn’t paying attention to SWFObject. Ok. Now I see what it does.

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Sweet!