Comments on: Ensure Your Website is Successful By Doing This (Part 2)… https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/ensure-your-website-is-successful-by-doing-this-part-2/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: kewlniss https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/ensure-your-website-is-successful-by-doing-this-part-2/#comment-744565 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:28:37 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=49289#comment-744565 This is a pretty detailed plan! Depending on the system being used it may be overkill to try and plan out forms on paper. If something like formstack or another tool is used, it doesn't take a lot of effort to prototype a form on that service, get feedback and quickly modify. Won't hurt to do it on paper first, and some systems it could save you tons of time to nail that down up front, but sometimes things on paper can be laid out one way and the web forms can be done differently that may not be obvious to someone just wanting to collect the data.

The other big thing I think is missing is the backend database. These registrations, I would expect, would want to be stored in a system that you could easily run reports from. Depending on how you run your VBS, you may even want to enter the data from the paper forms that people manually fill out (that didn't register online) and enter their data online (possibly marking some field stating, this was a manual entry by the team so it doesn't get counted as an online registration). The main purpose in getting all the kids in the same system, is that now you could have attendance reports for each room that could be printed each day as new kids are registered. Of course a lot of this depends on the actual logistics of your VBS (like enough time to quickly enter new kids on days 2-5) and get fresh attendance reports printed and given to the teachers before they finish singing the opening songs for example.) Anyway, just some thoughts as I've enjoyed creating registration systems for some VBS's in the past.

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