It’s stunning!!! Job well done, Blankenship!!
Love the new site! Congrats!
Excellent, very clean, I am looking forward to the new bits and pieces as they get rolled out.
What are IE issues? Microsoft makes a browser to try and compete with Firefox and Safari? :)
I have felt your pain with designing for both but know you guys will pull it off, go step away from the site and sleep for a few days and you will be ready to jump back in fresh.
Love the new site and your PS. That’s what I’m suggesting to my self as well. We’re slowly rebranding and launching our new site in about a month. Anyways, great job!
Ken told me about the baptistry too :D
Looks great – always been fond of your work. Just curious to know what CMS NewSpring is using?
Thank you for not letting the team down. Looking forward to seeing the updates.
Marino – we’re using Expression Engine, which had a bit of a wicked learning curve (coming from a WordPress background) but is pretty much awesome thus far.
Well done. Beautiful. I think it’s so cool how instrumental you are in helping your church portray itself in such a positive way. I think because of your work many more people will come to your services and grow in their relationship to Christ. Thank you.
Beautiful and not without a sense of humor. Fanschmastic.
well done – really fun to explore
Looks awesome!
Yeah, EE is a very powerful tool if you digest all of it. Also – I’m loving the use of Lucida Fax.
Site looks awesome!
Side Note: Why does your /blog have “Valium Spam” links all over the top when you disable the CSS???
Because I haven’t been tending to my own garden very well. Someone has, apparently, hacked the internets. All of them. I have to track down where it’s coming from.
Side Note: Why are you disabling the CSS???
To get good deals on Valium. Obviously.
Nice Work Sir! Love the Jesus page!
Joshua, congratulations on a job well done. You did a fine job.
My favorites: styling/imaging of general information pages and the styling of the searching/results.
Keep up the hard work.
Dude it looks great you should definitely post some stuff on the process that you guys went thru at the church.
Sam – it’s in the works.
I disabled the CSS because I was showing an intern your site as a good example of CSS :)
About The Author
I'm a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Anderson, South Carolina. I serve as the Design Director for NewSpring Church. I love Jesus, my wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days I love them roughly in that order. Email me.
The New www.NewSpring.cc
Wed 07/16/08
The good: after a solid 9-day push of all-nighters, we rolled out the initial version www.NewSpring.cc a few minutes ago. I don’t know what day it is, but i’m fairly certain i’m hungry and my lower back is killing me.
The bad(?): There are a metric ton of Internet Explorer woes to tackle, as well as a big list of design tweaks and type changes mainly pertaining to giving the blog(s) some much needed loving care. There’s more content to add. There’s a Resources section to finish. There’s a slick new video player to rollout (more on that later). There are 3+ years of audio and video to port over to the new site/servers. Lots of IM pats on the back to Mr. Noah Stokes, who handled all the development heavy lifting. There are bloggers to train on a new content management system and strategy meetings to be had about what features should be added where. There are hallway conversations and emails to field. There’s second-guessing to be done and typos to be fixed…
All that to say, there’s always something. Perfection in design is illusory, especially in regards to the web. You strive for it, and walk in the tension between it and productivity, but at some point, you just have to launch the thing and then hit the ground running in the fallout, dodging shrapnel and enjoying the weather.
This is a foundation. An experiment. A process. A series of little victories yet to be had. I’m excited.
P.S. if anyone ever suggests launching a full corporate rebranding and a new website on the same weekend on a roughly 6 month timeline, punch them in the nose and call them silly names, because they are idiots. I’d hit myself in the face for suggesting it to myself (and others!), but I’m too tired to fight.