If things go well with this new webhost that I will be “tinkering with” very soon, then theoblogical.org will be moving over there. The Church site might also go if the Community Starter Kit seems to be a good framework to use to redesign our Church site.
The following features from the asp.net Starter Kit descriptions for “Community Starter Kit” seem to suggest to me that this might be the ticket for what I envision for Church web site development (with a few tweaks of course):
Includes Six Standard Content Modules
- Articles
- Self explanatory; basic content
- Links
- Enable Church members to contribute and editorialize on links of interest around certain issues
- Downloads
- Enable sharing of pdfs, Church publications, etc.
- Photo Gallery
- Enable collaboration on sharing photos taken of Church events, show off family photos in personal membership area
- Events
- Publicize and administer calendar for Church schedule
- Books
- Provide area for reccommended books (from staff, classes, members with posting priveleges)
Create Multiple Communities with a Single Installation
- Set community quotas
- Set up content quotas for Staff, Contributors, Editors, and members
Additional Features
- Send Newsletters
- To notify the non-Web-savvy or those without affordable access, via email
- Create voting polls
- Get a sense of the group around issues, vote on Web content ideas
- Supports RSS news feeds and XML Web services
- Enable customized information to be presented to users who choose to be alerted when appropriate/relevant content and events are added