{"id":830,"date":"2007-08-07T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-08\/07\/kaleo-church-website-v-50\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T02:57:54","slug":"kaleo-church-website-v-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/kaleo-church-website-v-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaleo Church Website v 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/\" title=\"Kaleo San Diego Church\"><strong>Kaleo Church<\/strong><\/a>  has <strong>re-launched it&#039;s website<\/strong> for the 5th time.&nbsp; Our website has been a significant tool in our ministry as an effective way to connect our community, communicate with people who visit our church and non-believers.&nbsp; Through our website we&#039;ve seen people attend events\/services and become Christians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/\" title=\"Kaleo San Diego Church\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov5-small.gif\" alt=\"kaleov5-small.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"311\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>To commemorate the launch, I thought I&#039;d talk about why we have done this now and in the past and other decisions involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaleo v5.0 <\/strong>&#8211;&nbsp; As Kaleo seeks to launch it&#039;s third and fourth locations, we created this design to reflect our <strong>multi-site<\/strong> church planting strategy.&nbsp; We also wanted to change the style of design.&nbsp; Our previous website designs were typically black\/dark.&nbsp; We wanted to change this to a more clean\/white-space design. The functionality is powered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia360.com\/\" title=\"Ekklesia Church Website CMS\">Ekklesia 360 Church CMS<\/a>.&nbsp; Some of the changes included: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong>: A new clean design was used, created by Mark Priestap at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designwisestudios.com\/\">Designwise<\/a>.&nbsp; We partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyon.net\/\">the Journey<\/a>  in St. Louis in sharing the cost for the design and we each customized our one layout to reflect our community.&nbsp; Mark&#039;s design was influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshillchurch.org\/\" title=\"Mars Hill\">Mars Hill<\/a>  and we spoke to them to ensure it was ok that we moved in this direction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong>: We wanted to put more people and stories on the site.&nbsp; We now have 3-types of Kaleo Stories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/mission\/whole-person\/\" title=\"Gospel Stories\">Gospel Stories<\/a>  (how the gospel is changing lives), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/mission\/whole-city\/\" title=\"Mission Stories\">Mission Stories<\/a>  (how people in our community are living on mission) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/mission\/whole-world\/\" title=\"World Mission Stories\">World Stories<\/a>  (how people internationally are spreading the gospel.&nbsp; The persecution of believers and the church planters we support\/pray for.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content<\/strong>: Changed a lot of content, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/church\/the-gospel\/\" title=\"gospel centered\">the gospel<\/a>, added <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/mission\/\">Mission<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/serve\/\">Serve<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/connect\/\">Connect<\/a>  sections and other pages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>: We centralized all sermons (previously on three pages) to one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/media--message\/\" title=\"Sermons, Messages &amp; Media\">Media &amp; Messages<\/a>  page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog<\/strong>: We added a blog to the home page for better updates\/communication.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Networking<\/strong>: We added a backend for community members to create their own page, blog, galleries, commenting on content, participate in groups, discussions, etc.&nbsp; As part of the previously mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-08\/03\/what-is-your-churches-mullet-strategy\/\">Mullet Strategy<\/a> &#8211; &quot;<em>business in front, party in the back<\/em>&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Event Registration<\/strong>: The site now has event registration both for free and paid events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov4.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov4.jpg\" alt=\"kaleov4.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <strong>Kaleo v4.0 <\/strong>&#8211; While we had this site, we moved into AMC Theaters for our Mission Valley service.&nbsp; We had the site up less than 2 months when we launched our 2nd site at San Diego State University (SDSU).&nbsp; We had decided to move to a multi-site, multi-congregational church planting strategy.&nbsp; The site was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchplantmedia.com\/\">Church Plant Media<\/a> and the flash was done by <a href=\"http:\/\/amdesign.com\/\">AM Design<\/a>.&nbsp; This was our first transition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia360.com\/\" title=\"Ekklesia Church Website CMS\">Ekklesia 360 Church CMS<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; (click on design for screenshot) Some of the changes included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Content Management System<\/strong>: CMS to manage content (sermons, articles, events, pages, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong>: First design not created by me!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov3b.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov3.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"kaleov3.gif\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <strong>Kaleo v3.0 <\/strong>&#8211; This was the site we had when we moved into a church building because we outgrew our warehouse.&nbsp; The design was created by me and used a php\/mysql database.&nbsp; We managed it through phpMyAdmin.&nbsp; Chris Livhdahl and I did most of that.&nbsp; Click on the image to the right to view an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov3b.gif\" target=\"_blank\">interior page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dynamic <\/strong>&#8211; We moved from a static, hard-coded site to php-based.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov3b.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov2.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"kaleov2.gif\" width=\"127\" height=\"96\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><strong> Kaleo v2.0<\/strong> &#8211; While we had this website, Kaleo &#039;went public&#039; in 2004 with a move to Sunday morning service in a warehouse we rented.&nbsp; We went public when we had about 50 adults attending the church.&nbsp; This design was created by me (man I&#039;m glad I don&#039;t design anymore).&nbsp; It is a static site that better laid out content to view.&nbsp; Click on the image to the right to view an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov2b.gif\">interior page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Flash <\/strong>&#8211; Each interior page had a unique flash header.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov1.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/kaleov1b.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"kaleov1b.gif\" width=\"128\" height=\"91\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> <strong>Kaleo v1.0<\/strong> &#8211; This is our first site ever.&nbsp; We launched this site as we began to do services with a core group of a dozen or so people in the 2002-2003.&nbsp; I had 7 or so images for the home page that were selected at random to give it a changing appearance.&nbsp; Click on the image to see another home page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaleo Church has re-launched it&#039;s website for the 5th time.&nbsp; Our website has been a significant tool in our ministry as an effective way to connect our community, communicate with people who visit our church and non-believers.&nbsp; Through our website we&#039;ve seen people attend events\/services and become Christians.&nbsp; To commemorate the launch, I thought I&#039;d talk about why we have done this now and in the past and other decisions involved. Kaleo v5.0 &#8211;&nbsp; As Kaleo seeks to launch it&#039;s third and fourth locations, we created this design to reflect our multi-site church planting strategy.&nbsp; We also wanted to change the style of design.&nbsp; Our previous website designs were typically black\/dark.&nbsp; We wanted to change this to a more clean\/white-space design. The functionality is powered by the Ekklesia 360 Church CMS.&nbsp; Some of the changes included: Design: A new clean design was used, created by Mark Priestap at Designwise.&nbsp; We partnered with the Journey in St. Louis in sharing the cost for the design and we each customized our one layout to reflect our community.&nbsp; Mark&#039;s design was influenced by Mars Hill and we spoke to them to ensure it was ok that we moved in this direction. 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