A simple website for a local church

The brief

The first thing a would-be visitor does is search the church's name. For Cornerstone, nothing came back: no address, no service time, nothing about what the church believes. The ask was the essentials: service times, a location map, about & beliefs, giving info, and a contact form.

I built it as one page: enough information for a first-time visitor, without adding sections that would be difficult to maintain.

What I made

• A responsive one-page site in the church's own look, with stone and clay colours and an open-door arch taken from its name.
• A live, interactive map with no API key and no monthly fee.
• A contact-form demonstration with validation and silent spam protection; a real client deployment would receive its own form endpoint.
• A mobile menu that works without JavaScript, so there's less to break.
• A social-share card, so the link looks trustworthy when someone drops it into a group chat, which is how most people will share it.
• A 20-minute go-live checklist: free hosting, HTTPS, security headers.

The share card

what the link looks like in Messenger and Facebook

When the wish list arrived

Mid-build, the requests came the way they always do: sermon audio! member login! livestream! Each was a fair idea, and each would have pushed back the launch.

Because the proposal named the first phase clearly, new requests could be recorded for a later quote without delaying the launch. Where a feature wouldn't justify its cost, like a member login for 80 people, I'd recommend the simpler free option.