10 MORE Reasons to Choose Weaver II - Gary Matthews at Work

[Charley Musselman]

Dale --

I have not forgotten our plan to migrate StJohnW to WordPress, Real Soon
Now.

Here's an endorsement. I'd feel more confident in this fellow as a
professional web designer if his own site didn't look like Grandma's
Attic. Still different folk have different aesthetic...

<http://garymatthews.com/2013/03/10-more-reasons-to-choose-weaver-ii/>

I came across this because my church, http://cccambridge.org/ , is
shifting to this template after frustration with prior design that could
not be edited by the client (I looked into it for the rector, found the
proprietary design nearly incomprehensible). If you examine their
WordPress/WeaverII site, you'll find an awful lot of infrastructure. Too
much of this is devoted to pandering to users of ancient browsers. (My
own practice is to ship clean HTML and let the browsers make of it what
they are able.)

Anyway, this is the direction I think we are moving...

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Charley Musselman
60B Aldrich Road
Watertown, MA 02472
617-863-6119

[Dale Peterson]

Charley

I just gave this all of five minutes in the middle of the night. My first reaction is the same as yours -- Gary Matthews' site is a visual mess (looks like an amateur site from ten or fifteen years ago) and most of the Weaver subthemes are also awful.  But two have a nice clear white look (no surprise since they copy the work of talented designers).  The two I noticed are Applish (http://aspenthemeworks.com/downloads/applish-weaver/) and NY Times (http://aspenthemeworks.com/downloads/ny-times-weaver/)..  If these themes are flexible and user-friendly this sounds like a great idea to me. 

Our celebrity gardener up the hill in Copake Falls loves WordPress (http://awaytogarden.com/my-torrid-affair-with-wordpress/) so that's some kind of endorsement!.

Now all each of us need is the time to implement these great ideas.  Louise and I have a busy year ahead.  Louise is taking over the SJW treasurer's job from Jane and will be retiring (or semi-retiring) in August.  I'm working full time, planning a major renovation for our Copake Falls house (with any luck in late spring), being at best a mediocre building committee chair and publishing the Voice.  Why not one more thing?  Let me know how I can help.

Dale

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[Louise Peterson]

This would be great.  I looked at some of the information on the church site and it certainly needs updating.  If it's easy, I'll be happy to help.  Louise

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[Charley Musselman]

Thanks for your offer to help, Louise!

Right now, it is not so easy to edit the web site. I use an HTML editor,
but have to know a little code, and FTP, and it's sorta technical. What
Dale and I plan to do is migrate the content to WordPress. We understand
that it's pretty easy for any authorized user to edit a WordPress site.

I don't entirely agree that StJohnW needs updating. I leave some of the
older postings, like the Harvest Fest, up because they give a flavor of
what we do. My intent is to have a balance of parochial news and some of
wider context, Jesuit Pope, Millennium Development Goals, etc. On the
other hand, it would be wonderful to have fresh copy on our music, our
ministries, our leadership.

To implement this plan, I've gotta learn new stuff, like installing
WordPress on our 1&1 hosting platform. It'll happen one of these days,
in a burst of coding enthusiasm.

----------------
Step 1
WordPress installation requires a MySQL database. If you have not set up
a MySQL database already for the Wordpress install, you will need to
Create a New MySQL Database.

and on thru Step 12...

> <http://garymatthews.com/2013/__03/10-more-reasons-to-choose-__weaver-ii/

> <http://garymatthews.com/2013/03/10-more-reasons-to-choose-weaver-ii/>>
>
> I came across this because my church, http://cccambridge.org/ ,
> is shifting to this template after frustration with prior design
> that could not be edited by the client (I looked into it for the
> rector, found the proprietary design nearly incomprehensible).
> If you examine their WordPress/WeaverII site, you'll find an
> awful lot of infrastructure. Too much of this is devoted to
> pandering to users of ancient browsers. (My own practice is to
> ship clean HTML and let the browsers make of it what they are able.)
>
> Anyway, this is the direction I think we are moving...
>
>
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[Dale Peterson]

Charley, Louise and I agree that keeping archival information is great, but other things, like the list of Vestry members, should be kept up to date.  It's not fair to expect you to do all of the updating and it makes sense that other authorized users could make updates where they see the need.  This will be one of the great advantages to a platform like WordPress.  Dale

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