Newbie needs advice, please

Hi all. I know very little about designing web pages, so please be patient if
these sound like stupid questions.

Situation:
My wife works for a church and they have a rather simple web site done by one of
the congregation. Trouble is, this guy is always out of town or tied up. It's
almost impossible to get him to update the site. A friend who has done some web
sites says we should re-do the whole site in PHP-Nuke so that my wife will be
able to update the site herself.

To get us started, he set up a dummy page on his own site with PHP-Nuke and told
me to have a go at setting it up. A few years ago I played with html for a few
weeks, got bored, and dropped it. I've spent several hours now trying to figure
out what to do and it strikes me as being quite complicated. I'm a persistant
SOB, though so I'd like to keep trying.

I see that Nuke is made up of modules with differing functionalities, and I'm
told there are a lot of available modules out there. I'd like to describe what
we want for the church site and have you guide me as to what the best modules to
use would be.

The current site is as follows:
"HOME" Iis a mission statement and history of the parish.
"PARISH" has times for the services and other regularly scheduled events
"STAFF" Lists the staff by function (I'd like to see them expand on this by
including a short bio and a thumbnail picture)
"BULLETIN" A very crowded page that repeats the staff names and times of
services, reproduces the content of the paper bulletin handed out each weekend,
and has an actual calendar with scheduled events entered in the appropriate days
(I'd like to see the staff and regular times removed since they're on other
pages and also give the calendar its own page)
"PROGRAMS, GROUPS, COMMITTEES" This lists the names of everyone who serves on
any kind of committee (I think it could also include phone numbers, maybe
thumbnail pictures -- at least of the heads of each committee)
"REGISTER" Is a form page for new families moving into the area to
register. When they've filled in all the fields, the results are sent to the
church office by email. (the volume of transactions on this is low enough that
I don't think we need to be doing any database stuff -- the email is fine)

Also at the bottom of each page is a "mailto:" link

The way the site is currently set up, the church Administrator (my wife) can do
the bulletin and calendar in MS Word, print a copy to xerox for distribution
during services, then "save-as" html. She then uses WS-FTP to upload the html
doc to the site and it becomes the new BULLETIN page. I've tried doing the same
think in Nuke by pasting the html code into the Encyclopedia module -- didn't
work. Not surprising given the spaghetti code that Word produces -- Yikes! The
Bulletin page is the only one she can currently change.

QUESTION: Which modules would you all suggest for each of the pages
described above, given the following:
The bulletin page will lose the contact information and the calendar
The bulletin uses formatting (font names, size, bold, itatlic, some tables, tab
allignment, etc.
The calendar will become a page by itself (or possibly combined with the
regularly scheduled stuff on one page)
The contact information along with the email link will be on a "Staff/Contact
Us" page

QUESTION: Can you include URLs to sites that have the suggested modules
available?

I think that the best opinion is to get a coder who can code the web for
you. It's not a very big deal. I think that you won't find any that kinda
GPL PHP project.


"Mike Brown" <cmbcne@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:k41840t4h771ljobte1hu3eotkednaq329@4ax.com...
> Hi all. I know very little about designing web pages, so please be
patient if
> these sound like stupid questions.
>
> Situation:
> My wife works for a church and they have a rather simple web site done by
one of
> the congregation. Trouble is, this guy is always out of town or tied up.
It's
> almost impossible to get him to update the site. A friend who has done
some web
> sites says we should re-do the whole site in PHP-Nuke so that my wife will
be
> able to update the site herself.
>
> To get us started, he set up a dummy page on his own site with PHP-Nuke
and told
> me to have a go at setting it up. A few years ago I played with html for
a few
> weeks, got bored, and dropped it. I've spent several hours now trying to
figure
> out what to do and it strikes me as being quite complicated. I'm a
persistant
> SOB, though so I'd like to keep trying.
>
> I see that Nuke is made up of modules with differing functionalities, and
I'm
> told there are a lot of available modules out there. I'd like to describe
what
> we want for the church site and have you guide me as to what the best
modules to
> use would be.
>
> The current site is as follows:
> "HOME" Iis a mission statement and history of the parish.
> "PARISH" has times for the services and other regularly scheduled events
> "STAFF" Lists the staff by function (I'd like to see them expand on this
by
> including a short bio and a thumbnail picture)
> "BULLETIN" A very crowded page that repeats the staff names and times of
> services, reproduces the content of the paper bulletin handed out each
weekend,
> and has an actual calendar with scheduled events entered in the
appropriate days
> (I'd like to see the staff and regular times removed since they're on
other
> pages and also give the calendar its own page)
> "PROGRAMS, GROUPS, COMMITTEES" This lists the names of everyone who serves
on
> any kind of committee (I think it could also include phone numbers, maybe
> thumbnail pictures -- at least of the heads of each committee)
> "REGISTER" Is a form page for new families moving into the area to
> register. When they've filled in all the fields, the results are sent to
the
> church office by email. (the volume of transactions on this is low enough
that
> I don't think we need to be doing any database stuff -- the email is fine)
>
> Also at the bottom of each page is a "mailto:" link
>
> The way the site is currently set up, the church Administrator (my wife)
can do
> the bulletin and calendar in MS Word, print a copy to xerox for
distribution
> during services, then "save-as" html. She then uses WS-FTP to upload the
html
> doc to the site and it becomes the new BULLETIN page. I've tried doing
the same
> think in Nuke by pasting the html code into the Encyclopedia module --
didn't
> work. Not surprising given the spaghetti code that Word produces -- Yikes!
The
> Bulletin page is the only one she can currently change.
>
> QUESTION: Which modules would you all suggest for each of the pages
> described above, given the following:
> The bulletin page will lose the contact information and the calendar
> The bulletin uses formatting (font names, size, bold, itatlic, some
tables, tab
> allignment, etc.
> The calendar will become a page by itself (or possibly combined with the
> regularly scheduled stuff on one page)
> The contact information along with the email link will be on a
"Staff/Contact
> Us" page
>
> QUESTION: Can you include URLs to sites that have the suggested modules
> available?
>
>
>