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Drupal for Churches

Posted on: Thu, 2007-04-05 07:30 | By: matt | In:

Let's face it. Over the last decade the Internet has become the single greatest communications channel to reach people, especially the younger generations. In the past few years the Internet has grown from a communications channel to a place with full on communities. This makes the Internet one of the greatest places for the church to get involved in.

Picture this. A new person comes to your church and when asked how they found out about the church and why they chose to check it out the church website was the reason. For many people this is the case. There are churches who have someone new come almost every week because of the website.

To try and help churches with this, on the Geeks and God podcast we recently did a series on the drupal content management system. Our goal was to provide the tools to get people going and feeling comfortable using a system that can help transform their website into the kind that grabs people and helps them.

The episodes to the series are:

We realize that there is a lot more to creating a powerful and useful website than just having drupal. Are you interested in hiring a web designer? Bob recently wrote about what to look for and you can find that here and we did a series on this over on the podcast called Websites That Don't Suck.

In the next few episodes following the drupal series we are going to talk about standards, why they are important, and give some details on xHTML, CSS, Accessibility, and Javascript.