Newfrontiers is a word wide network of churches that was started in Brighton, UK. They currently have over 600 churches in over 40 nations including the United States. The US portion had an existing website however, it was terribly out of date and had an irrelevant look. I was hired through SPI Creative to be the primary designer for the site. Newfrontiers was wanting to role out the first phase of the redesign during their annual US Leadership Conference in St Louis at the beginning of March, despite the fact that we began the project in February. This gave the team a little more than month time line to design and build the site which made things challenging.

When I approached the redesign, I knew there were going to be several objectives and obstacles with the sites scope that were going to need to be met. The over all look and feel of the site needed to be updated and there was also a pretty big emphasis on making the navigation much easier to use. I tried to take a more classic approach to the design by keeping the menu at the very top of the page. We went through about six rounds of concepts before I was able to land on a design that had both a nice simplistic layout on the front page and made sense from a information hierarchy standpoint.

The final product of the site came out very well. I was able to keep things organized and use a color scheme that could be carried through the different sub sections. We implemented a simple js to scroll through some key statements on the front page. Joomla! was used as the primary CMS for the project.

The site features some great custom applications like the ability to search through a DB of churches using the Google Maps API. There is also an app that was developed by SPI called MediaArchive that allows Newfrontiers to maintain a searchable archive of sermons and teachings from events and churches associated with Newfrontiers.