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The All-New CreativePastors
Early on Friday morning, the new version of CreativePastors.com went live! CreativePastors is the Ed Young resource site for pastors and church leaders, featuring sermon transcripts, books, message and service development tools, MP3s, conference, and a lot more.
The site is driven by many of the same design and development principles that have guided the three previous sites we've released in the last 14 months - standards-based and CSS-driven using PHP, PostgreSQL, and Linux. All of our websites now share identical platforms (code, servers, hosting), which will be a huge help as we move forward.
Here's a quick overview of some of the improvements and changes...
- Brand-new look built around the new logo
- Greatly improved navigation to make things much easier to find
- Better product search
- Integrating blog and podcast content into the front page
- One page checkout
- Find everything related to a message series on a single page
- Add a product to your cart without leaving the page
- One page account management, including downloads and order history
- Unbelievably smaller and faster pages
- Related products
As any web person knows all to well, this is just the start. This is one of the few projects I've worked on where the post-launch list is longer than the pre-launch list. The CreativePastors team is one of the most, well, creative groups I've been around and there are many great ideas on their way. My thanks to them and my team for all the time and effort it took to make this happen.
Hi Brian,
The new site looks awesome. Do you recommend any specific e-commerce software to use or stay away from.
Andy
Posted by: Andy Hosier | June 19, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Site looks great....
I have been listening to the Ed's podcast for the past six months.. really enjoy them.. I have also been reading your blog and checking out the website.. You need to convince Ed or at least someone on his site to start bloging...
just in case your wondering site looks great in Safari...
Posted by: Bill Rodriguez | June 19, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Andy - Thanks for your kind words! We were very close to using Zen Cart, but decided to build our own as the amount of work we would have had to do to make it work for us was more than starting from scratch. Able Commerce and MediaChase have nice systems for Windows.
Bill - They already do and have been for a year! The podcast and blog for CP are one and the same. Visit cp.blogs.com, check out the articles on the CP homepage, or subscribe to feeds.feedburner.com/cpblog in your newsreader and you'll get all the latest info! Thanks!
Posted by: Brian | June 19, 2006 at 10:27 AM
A really gorgeous site. Well done to you and your team.
Posted by: Evan Erwin | June 20, 2006 at 10:57 AM
Great site, as usual Fellowship continues to innovate in amazing ways. Keep up the incredible work.
Posted by: Eric Jaffe | June 21, 2006 at 09:04 AM
Evan and Eric - Thanks a lot! That's great to hear.
Posted by: Brian | June 23, 2006 at 09:05 PM