We joined West Hills Presbyterian Church here in Knoxville, TN in September. When we originally found this church, I ran across their web site and gathered there was no one at the church who had any web development experience at all. It was a sad 4 or 5 page static site with no contact form, a painfully “premade” looking template, and was just overall a horrible experience. Now, I’m no graphic designer, but I figured I could do a little bit better at least and so here is the new site : http://www.whpca.net. Nothing mindblowing, and still mostly static, but at least it has a way for people to contact the church and for new visitors to easily get essential info and directions.
On a related topic, I LOVE Google’s APIs. Whether it’s doing AJAX searches, integrating interactive maps into a page, or taking advantage of the multitude of other tools they have created (or bought). If you do any kind of web development, you will surely be able to find a use for one or more of their tools….. Google API AJAX Playground. To see an example of how it’s used on this site, go to the directions page under Information.