Igreja da Esperança: a website for a local church community

Context and problem

Self-initiated project: a fictional brief I wrote for practice, treated as if it came from a real client — with audience, goal and constraints defined before any code.

The brief: a neighbourhood church that only communicates through social media and messaging groups. First-time visitors struggle to find service times, the address or how to reach the leadership.

The goal was a simple, easy-to-maintain site that answers those questions in seconds and feels welcoming.

My responsibility

• End-to-end project: information architecture, design, development and deployment.

Solution

A single page with services and times, a community photo gallery, a location map and a contact form.

Form messages stored in Firebase, with no server to maintain.

Architecture decisions

• Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript: a light, fast site that is cheap to host for a small organisation.
• Firebase for the form and hosting.

Stack

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Firebase

Results

Essential information (services, address, contact) reachable in seconds

Site live and easy to maintain