Episode 047 – Nov 26 2008
This week the focus of the WELSTech podcast is Content Management Systems. Martin and Sallie are joined by WELS.net webmaster, Julie Duran, and we take a look at WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.
Podcast: Download (18.9MB)
The discussion:
- Content Management Systems – WELS.net webmaster and manager of WELS Web Services, Julie Duran, joins Martin and Sallie for a discussion of the “big three” open source Content Management Systems (CMS) – WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Any of these software solutions could be used to build and manage a church or school web site, and the conversation includes pros and cons of each option.
- FinalWeb
- WordPress
- St. Paul’s in Washington, DC
- Joomla
- Eastern Montana WELS
- Cornerstone
- Drupal
- Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
- Salem Lutheran in Stillwater, MN
- Open Source Content Management System Overview (.pdf)
- Visit the WELSTech Wiki to share your experience with any or all of the CMS systems discussed
The tidbits:
- Picks of the week (24:45)
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Visualizing the Bible image
- Sync your password management files across platforms
- PC – Password Safe
- Mac – Password Gorilla (reads Password Safe)
- Sync via Live Mesh
- WELS.net feature (33.15)
- Church Year Worship Resources
- Community feedback (33:55)
- John Simonson from Good Shepherd in West Bend, WI shared additional search engine optimization tools from Google
- Insights for search
- Search-based keyword tool
- John Simonson from Good Shepherd in West Bend, WI shared additional search engine optimization tools from Google
- Coming up on WELSTech (35:33)
- Episode 048 – Gail Potratz joins us for a discussion on teaching our children research skills in a Web 2.0 world
The featured artist:
- We close with music of WELS artist, Michael Schroeder (michaelschroeder.com) – O Come, O Come Emmanuel from his CD titled The Reason For the Season (37:35)
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Thanks for the update! I am a big fan of WordPress and all its capability. I like your updated site. Blessings on your ministry!
Thanks for linking to the website for the eastern Montana WELS churches. When I set up the site years ago, joomla was it. Now WordPress has caught up and in my opinion, has the power of Joomla but much easier to handle/learn.
For WordPress & BlogEngine.Net I have used w.bloggar for creating my posts right from my PCs. This is a free blog editing software application that runs on MS Windows PCs. See… http://wbloggar.com/