Office personnel at Asbury United Methodist Church needed to be able to update their church's website information on their own in a timely manner.
Using PHP scripting language and a MySQL database, easy-to-use forms were created to allow them to maintain:
- church events
- staff and leadership contact information
- upcoming sermon series
- monthly newsletters
Here is the main menu of their inter-office Content Management System that allows them to access different data areas to add, maintain, and delete their information for their public website:
As an example, here's how the office staff maintains an Event:
A dynamic monthly calendar was created to display events, allowing visitors to view events for the current month as well as past and future months. Also, by clicking on the event, the visitor can see full details of the event. Here is what the visitor sees on the Asbury website Events page:
Dates that have events scheduled are clearly marked with an colored background. And, if the visitor clicks on the Event, the details are displayed:
