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Interesting Church Site in pure HTML

annualreport.elevationchurch.org

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While some people may take issue with the content of this site, I thought the execution would be of greater interest to the people on this lists. This is all done in HTML.

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I realize some people may look at this site and say the content is not appropiate for Hacker News. I submitted it though because I thought the execution would be of more interest. The site is done entirely in HTML.

Actually... no, the content isn't the issue, i'm just curious how it ended up on the front page, given the plethora of site that use similar mechanisms already.

That said, HN's repost factor has increased a lot over the past year, which i guess one can expect when HN's community has grown in size and diversity. Not everyone is going to see everything the first time.

Still, these sorts of CSS3+HTML5 tricks have been used in a pile of sites, there was that awful & racist Pete Hoekstra ad in Michigan. The first use of this i'd seen washttp://lostworldsfairs.com/atlantis/ And there's Ben The Bodyguard which put the same effect to good use as in a nior setting: http://benthebodyguard.com/index.php

Thanks for the response and feedback, but I will admit I am a little confused. Has this site been posted before? This is the first time I've come across it, since it was shared by an acquaintance of mine on Facebook. I normally view HN through Google Reader, which I don't believe makes use of the ranking done on the front page, and I am still very new to sharing information on HN, so I don't know if there is some kind of etiquette I should folloe.

Nike has been using a parallax on it's pages for quite some time: http://www.nikebetterworld.com/product - Still it's a beautiful design and a great example of the parallax effect, very well done.

The title is misleading. A "pure HTML" site wouldn't contain CSS, JavaScript, PNG, JPG, videos - modern web design is really the binding together of a lot of different technologies to create compelling experiences.

Your title translates as "An interesting church site that doesn't use Flash or some other browser plugin".

This type of presentation is terrifying for church data.

Religion broken down into pure stats. Gross.

24,233 people indoctrinated in Q1. 33,887 people convinced to give to the church.

Whether or not you agree with the organization's goals, transparency can only be a good thing.

A lot of money flows in and out of a megachurch - it's good to see them adopt the same level of transparency and accountability as other businesses of that size (not sure how much they're required to do by law, but putting their stats up in a user-friendly presentation seems to imply they intend to be transparent, as opposed to hiding the numbers in a table in an annual report).

Very impresively done site, regardless of content. (Atheist here) They implement the parallax effect a lot better than I've seen others try to do.

I hate it (in Firefox 11). It takes time to learn how scrolling it works, and scrolling is slow (on my i5 system with fast internet connection).

It's not quite pure HTML. It relies heavily on CSS.

It'd be much cooler to see what you can REALLY do with pure HTML5. No CSS. No JS. No bells and whistles.

HTML is just a markup language. How it is displayed relies on other factors (and that is where CSS comes in)

There is also a fair bit of javascript in there. Disable it, and the side navigation doesn't work.

It's really well done, thanks for this.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=parallax

A guess the news here is that a church has a website that looks like it wasn't built by the pastor's son in the late 90's.

Not pure HTML. Includes CSS and JavaScript.

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