A couple new sites I worked on recently launched (or relaunched as it may be), developed on “enterprise-level” web site platforms. That is, these web platforms do just about everything a nonprofit would want a web site to do. We also have a couple “simpler” WordPress based sites coming down the pipeline, so I’ll post some notes on those when they get launched. But for now, here are the new sites.

Love Worth Finding - www.lwf.org
A broadcast ministry featuring teachings from Adrian Rogers. This site was built on Convio, which is an all-in-one content / fundraising / marketing platform of sorts. Production (that is, writing the HTML and CSS) was relatively straightforward, the site is a pretty standard Convio integration, except for the fact that parts of it needed to be mirrored in Spanish (err, I don’t speak spanish). One slightly interesting thing about the site’s HTML is that the drop down menus are based on a custom JavaScript engine I wrote. The script basically takes a HTML list and combines it with a little CSS mojo to turn it into fully functional drop down menus.

100k Miracles - www.cbmiusa.org/miracles
This is a “mini” site (that is, different look and feel) for Christian Blind Mission International, a relief organization that helps people in developing countries with blindness and other disabilities. I didn’t actually do much (or any) work on this site, but I think it’s a really well done and gorgeous site to look at. The one thing I contributed was probably the font size selector, which I had created a while ago for the main site and was just copied over. The navigation tabs across the top of this site also have a pretty neat overlapping effect and is basically done with pure CSS, without slicing up the tab images in weird places¹. This site is also built on the Convio platform.

Calvary Chapel Port St Lucie - www.calvarypsl.com
This is a site for a church down in Florida, and unlike the previous two sites, is built on Kintera, a platform not unlike Convio. There are some minor tricky things going on with the CSS but nothing crazy. The flyout menus used on this site are also based on the same JavaScript engine used for Love Worth Finding, it’s just the CSS that makes it look and function differently (that is, menus open to the right, instead of down).

PS, My work also has the coolest printer I’ve ever seen. I’ve only ever really printed stuff with it, so that’s all I ever really thought about it. But now I know that not only can it print, it can also scan documents, and then email the scanned document to you. How cool is that? It’s been said that no application is ever finished until it can do email, so I guess the printer is officially feature complete now. Now if only it can brew coffee for me whenever I want

¹ If you’re curious, here are a couple of the elements that make the tabs: a tab shell, hover states, and selected states. There’s a few more, but I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure that out.