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The How, The Why, The Redesign – Webcast

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 3, 2009

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If you’re reading this post in your RSS Feed Reader jump out for a second and check out our new redesign!

This is v3.0 of ChurchCrunch and I’m happy to officially announce it’s go-live.

I’ve poured my nights and weekends into this particular revision for the last 4 weeks and what you see here is pretty much the finest piece of coding genius that I’ve ever accomplished.

I’ll admit it though… it’s not the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen but the code in the backend is absolutely gorgeous… You’ll obviously just have to take my word for it.

For example, one of the most amazing things about this blog is that it’s only using 2 plugins. Just two. The reason it isn’t “zero” is because the two that I’m using were expertly coded to begin with and there wasn’t any need to reinvent the wheel (but I tried…!). Everything else is hand-coded or homegrown for maximum speed and effectiveness.

Check out the 404 page too…!

There’s so much that I’d like to share about this redesign, from a design, functional, and strategy perspective, that I’d thought I’d host a webcast. My hope is that you’ll be able to take away some of the things I’ve learned and done so you can make your own properties smashing!

So, this coming Tuesday, April 7th at 11:30am EST, I’ll be hosting a Live Webcast where I’ll walk you through the redesign, share my thoughts, and have a Q/A session where you can ask me anything you want about it.

So mark your calendars and I’ll see you here early next week.

Ciao.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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30 Responses to “The How, The Why, The Redesign – Webcast”

  1. Jim
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    dude,new site is DOPE

    Reply
  2. Phillip Gibb
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    oh man, sweet, I love it, brushed metal.
    I see that you chose to use tinyURL, interesting

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    • human3rror
      Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:58 pm

      I'll discuss that use… on the webcast.

      ;)

      Reply
  3. Brandon_Schmidt
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    Love the new design! I am really interested in seeing how you incorporated TinyURL into each post.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:58 pm

      sure, i'll share all those secrets… which aren't really secrets.

      Reply
  4. Matt Harrell
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Great job John. NIce use of space. The entire thing feels easier to digest. Design is an ever-evolving thing. I'm sure your already thinking about the next version. Have fun!

    Reply
  5. Jeremy
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    i will definitely try and tune in for the webcast. Will it be archived? I really like the new post headers. Cool stuff.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:07 pm

      Thanks!

      Not sure at this point. probably not.

      :)

      Reply
  6. Chris
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:10 pm

    It's hard to go wrong with brushed metal. It worked for Apple, right. Good work John.

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    • human3rror
      Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:11 pm

      perhaps an inspiration…? ;)

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  7. DerekDRobertson
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Yope it is

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  8. JakeSchwein
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    very nice…might tune in to Webcast if I can!

    Reply
  9. human3rror
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    probably not…

    Reply
  10. human3rror
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    cool!

    Reply
  11. chrisdat
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Gorgeous! So clean and neat and fast. So many neat little things too. Great job.

    Reply
  12. human3rror
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    thanks!

    Reply
  13. Josh Wagner
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Site looks great. Wish I could listen in on the webcast, but I have to be at work. Next time maybe…

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  14. Graham Brenna
    Friday, April 3, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    I'll be at the webcast as long as my worship planning meeting gets out on time ;) Luvin the new look! I like what you've done for the authors! Nice work!

    Why didn't the intense debate comments carry over into the older posts?

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  15. human3rror
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 12:27 am

    next time@

    Reply
  16. Daniel_Berman
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 1:38 am

    A+ for simplicity. Will you be posting a copy of the webcast for those of us who can't make it?

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  17. human3rror
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Not sure…

    Reply
  18. Jonathan
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:22 am

    Looks pretty sweet man. Love it.

    Reply
  19. human3rror
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 10:45 am

    thanks jon!

    Reply
  20. Phillip Gibb
    Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    My only question is; what happened to categories?
    Just b4 the change I found the curly bracket wordpress hack post fairly easily because I knew it would be under the category of blogs, but now I am having trouble locating it – even with the search

    but then again I might be missin something that will be cleared up next week :-)
    Phill

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