Forgot to tell you: I had launched a website
Coming as a late update… www.commonground.se
A month ago or so I soft-launched a new website for Dan Hegelund, an long-time client of mine. This time it was a website for a church in Sweden, where he is currently based.
We started working on the website about 2 years ago, but had to stop at one point due to a number of reasons, and then a few months ago the project was restarted.
Needles to say, since we started the design has changed. A lot. At least twice. It’s always very hard to pick up on a project if it was on hold for a long period time, and also during these 2 years my design ideas and skills also changed (hopefully, evolved), so I just did not like what I had come up with initially . I believe it was quite frustrating for Dan to hear me saying: ‘We have to wait a little bit more. I need more time. I am still not entirely happy with the design.’ But client’s trust is the best thing in your relations. Just don’t push it :) And I believe his wait wasn’t in vain.
The site is built using WordPress engine, like the majority of the websites I build nowadays. Essentially it’s a combination of blog, news and event poster. The core requirement for the project was to be content managed as much as possible, and this consideration required extensive WordPress customization and hacking.
Dan is still playing with website’s structure to adjust it to the church’s and users’ needs and hopefully I will get a green light very soon to add final design touches and some extra functionality. It feels like it is going to be a quite big on-going project and I still got few ideas up my sleeves.
Note: I used some CSS3 properties in this project, so the website looks best in modern browsers, like Firefox, Chrome or Safari. Hopefully, Internet Explorer will also catch up soon.