Phil Manser

I was just thinking. It was a kind of “Oh no! You’re going to change what you said you were going to do, again, aren’t you?” moment.

Yep. I’ve decided that I’m not going to build the user interfaces for the church site. Instead, I’m going to build the site around a Textpattern installation and add everything via plugins (which I will create). Actual coding of this will probably not begin until next spring, which means that I’ll have to continue to manually edit and maintain the site until then. In the meantime, I’ll study Textpattern, see what I can leave as is (because of course I’ll want to change everything) and see what I need to add.

There are a couple of reasons why I think this is a better solution than building the interfaces myself. First, because I’d be building off of a strong admin GUI that is pretty well thought out, instead of slowly working towards one myself. Second, I was planning on integrating some blog engine into the site to handle the Article’s section anyhow, so instead of watering down Textpattern to meet my needs, I’ll be using it at it’s full strength.

I should note that, although I say Textpattern is my choice, I will still consider a couple of other blog engines like, Wordpress and GreyMatter. I think that I will ultimately choose Textpattern though.