Doksany Parish
For the Roman Catholic parish of Doksany I prepared a website informing the faithful about current events and visitors about the history of the Premonstratensian monastery and its surroundings.
- realization: March 2021
- design: Štěpánka Našincová
- development: Jan Polzer
- platform: Drupal
- implementation time: 1 month
From old solution to Drupal
A parish administrator came to me on a recommendation, having taken over an existing website running on a subdomain of a once-popular website provider with free administration. Editing and inserting more content there was difficult and the site design was outdated and charged to the time of creation. Comfortable viewing on mobile devices was out of the question.
As a solution, we chose to move to a separate domain and new hosting. For the administration, we used the Drupal editorial system, with which the parish priest’s colleague had long positive experience.
Web design
After agreement with the client, we approached Štěpánka, with whom the parish has been cooperating for a long time.
I designed a whole new identity for the parish in Doksany. The pride of the Doksany parish is the Romanesque chapel with its beautiful column heads. I used a simplified spiral element and added the classic Montserrat font. The combination of the square icon and the title was also used on the website. Along with the restrained colour scheme, the style is complemented by the author's photographs - the monastery in Doksany is beautiful and the parish priest likes to take pictures. The result is thus a combination of geometrically clean and calm graphics with personal emotion. And that was the point.
Štěpánka Našincová
News and services
Basic information
A look into history
About Premonstrates
Gallery
Parish blog
Showcase of the new parish website
Drupal modules
The website is mainly focused on the presentation of texts and images. Therefore, the Paragraphs module is the basis of Drupal administration, with the help of which individual components are prepared, from which the editor composes the content of the pages in any order.
Listings of churches, information about Premonstratensians or photo galleries are handled by Views without dependence on third party modules.
Quick overviews with carousel
The graphic designer and I have come up with an interesting feature with a carousel/slider, where the website offers its reader a quick view of the photos directly in the list of churches, without having to click on the article in detail.
For the slider, I chose the Flickity library, which works without depending on jQuery.
SEO and website speed
SEO
I support onsite SEO in Drupal by combining Metatags and XML Sitemap modules.
Site speed
In the implementation, I deployed critical CSS, removed blocking sources, and had Drupal automatically convert all uploaded images to the modern WebP format.
I’m glad that in preparing the new site I was referred to professionals who understand what they are doing. Jan Polzer did a great job. He was able to hear what we wanted, gave advice, communicated effectively and got the site to the shape we wanted.
Website Doksany Parish in numbers
Speed
88
Lighthouse score
Content
50
pages
Pictures
200+
images and icons
Design
12
type pages
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