new website work

OK, so the decision has been made and Drupal it shall be. In fact, just to make it extra official, we’ll be building three sites on Drupal, not just one.  Buildingboldlyforjesus.org will be the home site for our upcoming capital expansion project. Paul Martin and company will be leading out in that effort and already they have some placeholder artwork up there. Secondly, kingdomkidFLC.org will be going up shortly as well (currently it’s just naked). Right now I can’t decide if it should be a Wordpress based site or Drupal. It may start as a Wordpress and then go Drupal later once I have a development team free to do that work. This site will be for the Forest Lake Children’s Ministries department. And finally, of course, the world famous website, forestlakechurch.org, will be up for a redo, upgrade, overhaul, what have you in the next few months. I’ve got the crack team of Wilcley and Wesley Lima working on that one. Two brothers of with their own web design business, they approached me and offered to help, so I put them to work. There are several others on board for the project as well and it looks to be a good team of young bucks that have been assembled. We’re gunning for a late October launch date of at least the basic functionality website with continuous improvement happening there after.

Many thanks to site5 for the webhosting services. Reasonable rates, “unlimited” storage and bandwidth (we’ll find out just how unlimited it is :-)  ) and a slick multisite administration panel is what sold it for me. And their Fantastico app is completely up to date with the latest (and I do mean latest–Drupal 6.3 was there right after it went up on Drupal.org) flavor of all your favorite open source toys and goodies. They don’t have 15 different hosting plans, just one–with a “turbo” add-on at $5 more for multisite–and that’s it. All the rest of the upsell stuff on those other hosting plans (pointers, subdomains, FTP, emails, parking, etc, etc) is all included in unlimited quantity with their plan.

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