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Drupal is one powerful tool for church websites. We know that. But, for new people getting into drupal it can be quite a leap and for many who are building church websites in front page a CMS takes a bit to learn.

So, over at the Geeks and God podcast we are going to do a series on drupal. We are starting at the beginner basics and working through what it takes to build a church website with drupal. It's our CMS of choice and we are sharing what we have learned.

I am wondering what an effective taxonomy for churches would be (and if there is a common taxonomy among churches). What taxonomy structure are you using for you church's drupal site?

Hello all,
I am soon going to launch my church's website. We have leaned toward Drupal for many reasons, mainly it has all of the features the staff asked for initially (calender, photo gallery, staff able to add/modify content).

We have not decided on a host yet, so the official site is non-existent. But, I am a Linux user and have a box to play with and have LAMP running. So I have a testing site at http://jenkins.hopto.org/vhbc .

I do a bit of church development and I know there are others in the same boat. I, also, see that this group has 61 subscribers. I have seen good church sites but the overwhelming majority of them out there are not good in functionality, security, look, or in meeting the need the church is trying to do. Drupal is a great tool that can help with 3 of these 4 things (exception is look). The 4th (meeting the need) is more than drupal but drupal provides many keys.

So, here we are. Drupalers who work with church websites. How can this group provide more added value to those of us in the group? And, how can the group reach others who need it?

Some thoughts are talking about what functionality would be good in a church website. This would be dependent on the size of the church, i think. Another is talking about what the need is and how to do that in drupal. The final though I had was about how to make a site look good and theme that in drupal.

Any thoughts from the gallery?

I just wanted to make a quick post to let everyone here know we've launched our new web design for our church site. We're starting to work toward implementing more group collaboration and making the web site a repository of information about the various LIFE groups and such.

The new site is at: http://www.newhopeks.org/

A more detailed post about what I plan to do with the site is as: http://www.contentment.org/2006/12/03/new_hope_church_new_design

Cheers.

I was recently involved in creating a blog for Pastor Paul Chappell. I hope you'll check it out.

I'd sure appreciate any feedback.

http://www.paulchappell.com

Hello to folks in the group. I've been lurking around for a while, but have to participate now.

My church is embarking on a project to transition its website from handrolled static html to drupal. Although I have some geeky inclinations, my interest in this project is really to investigate the kinds of social forces that prevent churches as a group from adopting open-source technologies in general, and drupal / CivicCRM specifically. I'm acting as the project coordinator, and will post relevant materials as I write them.

I am writing this out of frustration in trying to come up with a method of giving certain rights to an individual (usually relegated to an administrator) but removing other rights. Maybe I just don't get how the taxonomy structure really works. I am using the taxonomy_access mechanism to limit access rights throughout the system.