The main vision and aim for this change has been to accomplish a few things:

Make a site that is more visually attractive than the previous site, including many more pictures.

• Create a site that can be modified by a variety of people and not owned by one person.
• Primary focus on adults accessing the site as seekers or enquirers.
• Secondary focus on our church family and making information available to them.
• Get it ‘good enough’ for now.

What’s in Version 0.1

• Implemented a content management system (joomla) that allows any user with the correct permissions to make changes to the content, but not to the template of the site (how it looks).
• Implemented a document store capability where many types of files can be stored and downloaded.
• Files are structured into categories (folders)
• Categories established for ‘Overview Material’, ‘Bulletins’, ‘Sermon Series’.
• Any user with the appropriate permissions can add items to a category
• Adding categories can be done by an administrator easily.
• Content on the site can be limited to everyone or to ‘registered users’.
• Anyone can register from the home page
• Requires an email address
• Self-service
• Web site content (outside the document store) is structured into sections, categories and items.
• A number of sections have been created
• A number of categories have been created
• A number of items have been created
• Template structure showing from the top down
• Church ‘logo’
• ‘Home’, 'Search' and ‘Contact Us’ mini-menu
• Scrolling page of 5 things we want to highlight
• Click on these to go the relevant page
• Just need a graphic to change
• 'Events' and 'Can we help?' graphics and links. 
• Main Menu linking to all of the content
• Upcoming events showing information in the calendar
• The home page shows a couple of extra bits
• Login – allow people to register and login
• Syndication – allowing people to syndicate (if you don’t know what this is then don’t worry about it)
• The main content which is selected from the content items that we want to highlight.
  
• The main sections in the structure are: 
• What is on? – bringing attention to the ‘major’ events
• What should I expect when I visit? – bringing attention to the Sunday experience and to the weekly programme
• What does FFMC have for my family?
• For Adults – talking about each of the adult ministries
• For Young People – point straight to FurnaceNetwork
• For Children – talking about each of the children’s ministries.
• Do you have a question? – providing the ability for someone to email a question in, but also providing a whole set of items which talk to different ‘seeker’ questions.
• The FFMC story – talking about who we are and what we believe
• More information here
• Staff – talking about the staff
• Contact Us – providing contact information
• Resources – showing all of the document store
• Search – providing search across the site
• Web Site Background
• Events Calendar
• We have also implemented a church calendar function showing information about upcoming ‘major’ events this is separate to the ‘what is on?’ section because it is more focussed at the church family.
• This is what is shown on the ‘Upcoming Events’ menu.
• The calendar allows different categories of events.
• Users with the appropriate permissions can add, and modify events.  

Next steps:

• Get people who are responsible for content to own it themselves – it’s easy honest!
• Agree with Julie a simple process for uploading Bulletins and Pastor’s Printout as PDF
• Make graphics templates available to others to modify and create their own.
• Expand ‘For Adults’ out into evergreen, 18-30, etc.
• Add a prayer item
• Add content for missions
• Add ‘personal’ bloging area
• Add podcast area
• Add newsletter/mass mail capabilities
• Look at the template to see whether it’s giving us everything we need.
• Anything else anyone can think of.