St Paul and St Stephen’s church website – 2018

In 2018 we re-designed and re-wrote the website for St Paul and St Stephen’s church in Gloucester. This was our first “mobile-first” web design where we designed it first for mobile devices, then adapted it for larger screens. We drew on much of the functionality of the St Mark’s website – the events calendar, the highlights on the front page, but we also brought the latest sermon recording onto the front page too. We also wanted all of the key information for a new visitor visible on every page, so we designed the footer of each page to have service times, contact details and a map of where the church is.

In April 2020, we wrote some code to allow members of the congregation to call a local Gloucester telephone number to listen to the latest sermon. This used Twilio as the backbone to handle the call and then some javascript to query the RSS feed of sermons on the website. We did a full write up in a blog post and the code is available on GitHub