What more can I say? Mel was simply a delight to work with and took the design idea I had created in Photoshop and made it an actual site. Everything looked like what I had in mind. She even went above and beyond my expectations and really made the overall website a functional extension of our church. We now have an average of 100 hits per day, whereas before, we were lucky to get 4 hits per day. Now, with Mel’s help and expertise in using Expression Engine, the site is easier to look at, and is becoming a central communication point of our church congregation. We now offer sermon outlines in conjunction with downloadable sermons and a really nice photo gallery.
The main reason I chose Mel for the church’s website was because of her extensive portfolio and her willingness to take on the task we had at hand. Also, I was looking for a COMPLETE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE that has more than just a “blog”. I came across EE some time back but just brushed it off because it cost for a license. Therefore, I dabbled into other CMS’s which were nothing than “blogs.” I did not want this for the church’s site. The staff needed something that could be quickly learned and would not take much of their time. Therefore, I reverted back to EE and really looked at the sites that had been created by various professionals. I saw the flexibility that EE had and was quite impressed in how things worked behind the scenes to produce what a visitor to a website will see.
As from my first impressions about the license fee for the software; it is well worth it. Especially if you can pair up with an incredible developer as Mel. I will definitely recommend her to anyone and will definitely come back to her for some minor tweaks to the website as well as other personal website ventures.
I just cannot say enough. MEL IS GREAT!
J. Brad Huss
non-profit+website, implementation, expressionengine+development, coding
Work:non-profit website, coding, implementation, expressionengine development
Everything that is needed to maintain First Baptist Churh Kings Mountain is immediately available with ExpressionEngine. The webmaster of FBCKM came to me and asked me to build ExpressionEngine into his site, so that it was quickly and easily maintable by him. Every little bit of information on this site is dynamically updated through ExpressionEngine. The easy to use control panel let’s Brad go in and add and delete events from the custom event calendar. He can add new contact’s to the contact page, or update the lists of sermons whenever he wants. The list goes on and on. That’s the power of ExpressionEngine!
