Well, after 2 years of blood, sweat and tears, the new church website launched on Friday. It’s not ready, it’s not finished, but it is live.
My friend Innes put a huge amount of effort into designing the site – everything that looks pretty is down to him. Everything that looks a bit clunky is down to my implementation of his design 
It’s built on (badly written) Django, and there are still loads of ideas and plans in my head on what else to implement. But hopefully it’s now a little bit better than the one-page excuse for a site that’s been up since 2007.
mrBen
Love the new look website. If I lived in Glasgow I’d be tempted to come visit
Nice work. But why not use WordPress?
Good question, Tim. WordPress was basically my number 2 option. It was the number two partly because I was interested in Django development, but mostly because developing the site in the way we have should enable us to customize it much more than would ever be possible in WordPress. Admittedly there’s not a huge amount of stuff in there currently that couldn’t be done with wordpress, but I have big plans!
One current example of custom code is the code for allowing events to happen on “church weeks”, which, in our church, are the week following the Nth Sunday of the month. So the 1st church week is the week following the 1st Sunday, which means that an event on, say, a Thursday will not always be on the 1st Thursday of the month.