2006–2008

EPIC Student Ministries

sdfastudents.org — the main site

Provenance

The student-ministry site of San Diego First Assembly, design credited to FortyOneTwenty. Promoted small groups, the Revolve Tour, Youth Convention; linked MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, and a young Twitter.

Medium

PHP and XML feeds, Flash image rotators, Spry framework, ~240MB of period imagery, PDFs and media.

Condition

Partially revived. Pages that fetched their header and footer live from sdfastudents.org reach for a server that no longer answers; those seams are left visible. Flash rotators play under emulation where their files survive. The archive holds fifteen drafts of the homepage — index_old, indexbeta, indexnewer, indexrepo, indexrepo2… — the sediment of a teenager iterating in production.

Enter the exhibit

The last sign (October 2008)“There are some big changes happening at EPIC! Please check back later.” They never updated the site. The site as it ran (Aug 25, 2008)The fullest surviving homepage stratum. Current seriesWhat was being preached that month, preserved mid-sentence. MediaSermon downloads, “no iTunes” variant alongside. ConnectSmall groups, MySpace, Flickr, and a young Twitter. An earlier draft (indexbeta.htm)One of the fifteen strata, chosen at random for display.