Liberty Presbyterian Church website – relaunched
After a long time of inactivity, I was able to rebuild our Church’s website. I first made interest on making a website for our Church due to possible contacts from foreign sponsors. Also, some of our members are abroad, and our main denomination, Presbyterian Church of the Philippines, is scattered all over the country. Having a website, we will be able to bring them news, latest events, projects, prayer concerns, etc., and communication will be easier.
What’s new:
- First, new domain name. Previously, we are using a long subdomain under freehostia. In search for a free domain, I was able to find co.cc. They offer free domain (depending on the actual domain). You can manage name server settings and others. And it is not just a subdomain, cause it is actually recognized by search engines. After testing a few domains, I came up with lpcgumaoc (the only one that was free). lpcgumaoc stands for Liberty Presbyterian Church Gumaoc (the barangay of village). Other combination gave me a yearly price. And since we’re (I am) on a tight budget (there is actually no budget for this), I chose the free domain. So the new domain is http://lpcgumaoc.co.cc. Someone commented that it is hard to remember, but I don’t think so. Well, maybe in the future, I would switch to a .com or .org domain (if money permits). For now, we’ll stay with the .co.cc.
- Second is a new webhosting. My previous webhost is great. They have fast response, good speed and goo plan (free of course). But since it is free, there are a lot of restrictions on the hosting. I can’t connect to external servers. Meaning automatic upgrades (for wordpress and its plugins) are disabled, and this is very critical. I can’t connect to the Akismet server (which helps a lot with spam protection). I was able to find a new host at http://driphost.com. They’re offers are great. And there are very little restrictions even on free accounts. Though they told me that free accounts will have, in the future, banners (unlike on my previous host which is bannerless), I was offered a free upgrade for no additional cost. Maybe in the future, once the site has already built up, I might take advantage of the offer, maybe just request to remove the banner. I really hope that they’ll be stable. Ever since I used their servers, I only experienced one downtime that lasted for around 1 minute
- Third is a new look. On the previous site, it is blog style. Now I am using a simple, clean, magazine style template from theme hybrid. My initial plan was to create my own theme. But due to my status as wordpress user (noob), I opted to search for a free (of course) good theme. I was able to find the hybrid news theme. I set it up. Found it hard to configure at the beginning. But once I was able to get a hang of it, I was able to set it up properly.
Some of the stuffs that I haven’t yet placed are:
- Articles for the past activities in our church.
- Informative about page (beliefs, history, etc.).
- Church staff info page.
- Change the colors (if I would be able to learn how).
- Move to a .com or .org domain (I pray someone will donate, cheers! but might stick with this)
- Some other stuff that might come to my mind.
Me and my pastor is hoping that it will serve as a communication between members afar, members of the denomination, and potential sponsors (specially for Children’s Ministry).
So please do visit the Liberty Presbyterian Church Website at http://lpcgumaoc.co.cc
I consider this website as my first project (production website). There are still a lot of things that I have to learn. The good thing is, I am learning.
On with the learning.
Soli Deo Gloria.
Congratulations on your church relaunched website. I know you could accomplish all the plans you have laid for it. The best for you and your church members.
@Ed Zafra
Thank you very much sir. I hope I could develop it more (and my skills also).