lostphilosopher / eskomethodist

Jekyll powered website for Northwood United Methodist Church in Esko, MN.

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Northwood United Methodist Church in Esko, MN - www.northwoodesko.com

General Notes:

This site is powered by Jekyll and hosted through GitHub pages at http://www.northwoodesko.com. If you have any questions about this website please contact [email protected].

The look is based on "Business Casual" by Start Bootstrap.

Developer Notes:

Philosophy

This site is intended to require as little maintenance from the church staff and the developer as possible. All of the pictures are being pulled from the church's existing Facebook page. The bulletins, newsletters, and documents are coming from an IFTTT recipe that pulls them out of a gmail inbox and puts them in a public dropbox folder. YQL is then used to scrape out the contents of the dropbox folder. See this file for more information.

Connected Accounts

Under [email protected]:

• Dropbox
• Gmail
• IFTTT
  Other:
• BlueHost
• Facebook

Starting a local Jekyll instance

1. Install jekyll: gem install jekyll

2. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/lostphilosopher/eskomethodist.git

3. cd into the repo: cd eskomethodist

4. Test the application by serving it locally: jekyll serve

5. Verify that you can see your jekyll project running at localhost:4000/

If the above process doesn't work, try bundle exec jekyll serve --baseurl '' this might help with versioning and compatibility issues. If you get a json 1.7.7 issue try bundle update json see here for more.

Deploying to Production

1. cd into the project repo: cd eskomethodist

2. Checkout the gh-pages branch: git checkout gh-pages

3. Push directly to the gh-pages branch git push origin gh-pages (or merge a commit into gh-pages on GitHub)`

eskomethodist's Issues

Pulling in Facebook group album pictures and links without authentication

See this post on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31058691/workaround-for-accessing-facebook-group-albums-client-side

Lock down the Email => DropBox => Website flow

Ideally there would be a white list of approved emails. IF THEN

Typos in About page

The text found in about, outreach needs to be reworded ie "have include" and "and contribute"

Documents showing up twice

Email attachments sent to the designated email appear to be showing up twice on the documents page. Bug. Needs further investigation.

Make Google Maps Plugin a static image to improve page load

Google maps shows wrong location for church

The record google has for the Church is wrong. Either Google needs correcting or the map widget needs to be pointed somewhere else.

Correct address:
http://maps.google.com/?q=62%20W%20Highway%2061%2CEsko%2C%20MN%2055733-9701