{"id":661,"date":"2010-11-12T22:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T06:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-11-12T22:55:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T06:55:24","slug":"church-website-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/church-website-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Website – Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read the tea-leaves and it’s pretty clear to me that Apple has quietly abandoned<\/a> its iWeb<\/a> software. Okay. That’s fair; I pretty much abandoned it a long time ago, myself. Whenever I have to make changes to the church web site<\/a>, I always cringe because it means I have to crank up iWeb and figure out again how it works.<\/p>\n

So. That leaves me with the dilemma of how to replace it. On the one hand is the static website. I could throw one of those together using webgen<\/a>. Perhaps with a few hand-coded extensions using erubis<\/a>, haml<\/a>, sass<\/a>, and a smattering of kramdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problems with that approach are that it would (a) take me forever to get right, especially if I made the error of using semantic markup instead of tables<\/a>. Not to mention (b) inserting me into every part of the workflow, insuring nobody else could ever take over as webmaster.<\/p>\n

Then, on the other hand, there’s a full-fledged CMS<\/a> like Drupal<\/a> or Joomla<\/a>. The price is right, and other people have already done most of the work. I see that plenty of churches have gone this route<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem with a CMS is that–wow!–it’s not like setting up a WordPress blog. It’s more like setting up a couple of dozen…or maybe a few hundred. It’s like landing a jet on the Hudson River<\/a>, or charting out the chronology of the End Times<\/a>: I know there are people who do that, but I’m not sure I could ever be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve read the tea-leaves and it’s pretty clear to me that Apple has quietly abandoned its iWeb software. Okay. That’s fair; I pretty much abandoned it a long time ago, myself. Whenever I have to make changes to the church web site, I always cringe because it means I have to crank up iWeb and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[188,191,190,189],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-joomla","tag-projects","tag-webdev","tag-webgen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-aF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}