It’s Monday morning and I find myself again in Hartsfield-Jackson Int’l Airport heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully this will be the last trip to that town for a while. I’ve been on the road too much lately but the end is in sight for a while. Next week I’m scheduled to be back in Augustat for a few days and then it’s home for the foreseeable future.
My last post was to state that I’ll be voting for Bush in the upcoming election. That does not mean that I’m endorsing the man, just that his opponent finally won out as the greater of two evils with his decision to bring Mary Cheney’s sexuality into the race. Now maybe I can quit talking politics for a while.
What I’m interested in now is open source portal software that’s adaptable to the needs of a church website. I have been placed on my churches website committee and asked to take the lead, at least for now, on the technology subcommittee. I would really like to find some CMS software that will handle the hierarchy that we wish to use for the website and will also support our calendering needs.
Over the next few weeks I intend to mull over the ideas that the committee and I come up with here in order to maybe get some feedback from people who may be reading my site and have some exprerience with the sort of software we are looking for.
I’m envisioning a homepage for the site giving a navigation menu, a weekly pastoral message and a breviated calender of events. Maybe an occassional important announcement. Sub pages will deal with different areas of the church and its various ministries. I need to allow for multiple contributors and have the security to limit the contributors to single or multiple areas in which to post entries.
I also need archiving capabilites for at least the Pastor’s weekly sermon and it needs to be searchable on various criteria. Simple webform story entry is needed so that knowledge of HTML is not necessary. I’ll add more to the list as I go this week.
