WordPress is far more than a blogging platform and that’s why we’re so satisfied in promoting it as a wonderful tool for powering all kinds of websites. But sometimes people need convincing. Why use a content management system or CMS to power my site? Or maybe the question is why WordPress? ithemes.com offers 5 great reasons for using a CMS and they apply very well to WordPress.
For those who need a Free Ministry Website, I’ve sent you to WordPress.com. There’s more good news out of WordPress.com — Free Space to Three Gigabytes. This is great news, that all free WordPress.com sites have had their free storage space increased from 50 mb to 3000 mb — that’s 3 Gigabytes of free storage space. Now you can upload photos to your site without concern for running out of space any time soon.
An interesting insight at ZDNet.com into what many companies go through when trying to get their content on the web by creating their own content management systems (CMS): WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems.
What’s so great about this article is the reminder to those of us in ministry that we have some wonderful, free tools at our disposal for the taking. We don’t have to go through what many companies experience when trying to shape their own CMS. Just use WordPress.
50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog and keep your readers focused on the content.
Answer: All of it.
Does that help?
Matt Perman writes at DesiringGod.org with a challenge to ministries to put all the sermons and articles and content they have on their website, make it easy to get to and give it away.
If you are a Christian media ministry, I commend the following vision for maximizing your effectiveness online: Post all of your content online, for free, without requiring registration, in a maximally usable interface.
This basis for doing this follows from the purpose of ministry and the purpose of a ministry website. The purpose of any ministry is, at root, to spread the message of the good news of God’s grace. And the purpose of a ministry website is thus to serve as an avenue for spreading that message.
I suggest you go read the whole thing now as you consider what you should be making available on your ministry website.
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