I am busy tweaking the design as well as some of the features here at the ol' blog. Excuse the mess.

Labels: blogging, design

I did a little work on re-designing and developing The Freeway | Church website this week. I still have a few more features to add, etc., but feel free to have a look around: www.frwy.ca/church

And hey, if you appreciate the work we do in downtown Hamilton, please click the "donate" button at the top of the page and send us some of your hard-earned cash. We will use it for our after-school program for impoverished children in our neighbourhood. A program which offers a healthy meal, mentoring/role-modeling, and art/DJing/music/drama lessons.

We will also use the money to provide the following for kids at our local elementary school: a backpack and supplies for kids in need, food for a breakfast program, and to keep a supply of groceries in the pantry at our coffee house for families and individuals in desperate need.

You'll get a tax receipt by e-mail following your donation... not to mention that you'll probably feel great as you're partnering with a great community with tons of potential in a great community with tons of potential. And hey, we really appreciate your support of the work we do in one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods.

Speaking of our work, if you're between 18 and 30 you should seriously consider living in our "community house" and working with us for a year or so while being trained and equipped as an apprentice of Jesus, in an initiative we call [CML]. If you do, you'll never be the same again. And if you're considering planting a church/community... that goes double for you.

Labels: blogging, design, the freeway

I have been doing some design/development work on some weblogs recently. Using one template that I have been using for quite a while now, I have completely sorted out The Freeway's web presence by breaking it out into three different sites that link to each other and have a very similar look and feel... hopefully it will be less confusing for people to navigate this way:







Using that same template [I guess I really like it], I have re-designed my family members blogs... sort of a spring clean-up, I suppose.











I created a new weblog for Jordan [he had a LiveJournal blog and I figured out how to transfer all his posts into Blogger... but the comments didn't come unfortunately]:



And I recently re-designed and updated The Cultivate Learning Party site [and will be updating it further soon]:



If you would like a weblog re-designed, [it will cost you next to nothing if you like this general template], drop me a line anytime: pernell AT frwy.ca

Labels: blogging, design, the freeway

We have been doing some work to try and make The Freeway's web presence easier to navigate. Now that we have three major "wings" of The Freeway [church, coffee house, [CML], we felt the need to seperate them a little bit in terms of web addresses.

The Freeway Coffee House site is here:
http://www.frwy.ca

The Freeway Church Community site is here:
http://www.frwy.ca/church

Cultivate Missional Living [CML] is here:
http://www.frwy.ca/cml

Have a look around and e-mail me if you have any questions or comments at pernell@frwy.ca

Labels: design, the freeway

I am in the process of re-designing our church community and coffee house websites and I have amalgamated them into one site [they used to be seperate]. You can now find all things Freeway at FRWY.ca. It may look familiar, I have stolen my personal weblog design [which I have now re-designed].

If you have been linking to http://thefreewaycohort.blogspot.com for our church community weblog, you will be re-directed, but if you could update your links that would be swell [I added a new feed as well].

We have some new [re]branding for both the church community and the coffee house which we will reveal really soon. It's just time to change it up a bit and re-invent our identity a little... not just on the web, but in general as well. Some changes are a-brewin'.

By the way, I agree with my buddy Jordon Cooper of Church of the Exiles - a new church in Saskatoon - I love Blogger and will continue to use it and Dreamweaver 8 combined for all my design needs. They rock.

Labels: blogging, design

I tend to re-design my blog quite often. I get bored easily.

In this current design template I have tweaked, I can not figure out how to get my header right up to the top. Any ideas?

Labels: blogging, design