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Eli Gallegos
6,813 PointsChurch Service Planning Website
Hello, I would like to know what kind of knowledge I would need to be able to build a site for planning a church service kinda like PlanningCenter.com or WorshipPlanning.com? being able to schedule people and reserve rooms and stuff like that is just some of the functionality i would want to be able to make
4 Answers
Derek Etnyre
20,822 PointsFor starters you need to know HTML and CSS. Then you need to figure out what "back end" technology will be used for things like storing user data, maintaining user profiles and etc. You may want to look into what frameworks like Wordpress, Drupal and Joomula would do for you. One alternative to those is to use technologies like PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java or .Net for backend.
Lot of it depends on if you want to code the site yourself, or if you can use configure a framework to do what you want.
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 PointsAs Derek mentioned before you need to learn all the things above. You can also use Wordpress and their might be a plugin out there that already does something like this. No need to reinvent the wheel if its already been done.
Eli Gallegos
6,813 PointsThank you for the info! I was considering using Wordpress I just was not sure if I had to code something like this from scratch or if it could be built on a framework and using plugins. I was looking into a plugin like Buddy Press just not sure if it will do all i need it to do or if I will need additional plugins to combine. I am currently taking the Web Design Track here then will take the Wordpress and Buddy Press training here too to try and get some more knowledge. Any suggestions? Thank you!
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 PointsI think you should first just learn things and get a better understanding before trying to jump into this. Later on I would suggest setting up Wordpress on your computer and just experimenting with it. That way you can gain some more experience and see if Wordpress would work with this project.