Making a church website
Usually I agree with Mark's technological recommendations, and while sagely agreeing I envy his ability to play with so much cool technology ;)
But not today. In his post
Tools for creating your own web site he assumes that "you" will learn to use an HTML editor to make your site. A dozen years ago that was necessary, not long before that we had to hand craft our code in a text editor, five or six years ago using Dreamweaver or a free HTML editor was still the norm. But not today. To make a church website, or a personal site, today just use
Wordpress (or if you want to host it on your own domain use
Wordpress). It is (fairly) easy to adapt, anyone can edit and update, and it is free. With widgets and such it is fairly easy to do pretty much anything...
I created a simple site for
our small church and in just a month or two people are already beginning to write it themselves - and longer term it will facilitate discussion, something a static site will not achieve. The Wordpress "
Sermon Plugin" enables complex sermon audio recording archiving, you can even use
Wordpress as a mini-social networking site (your very own local Facebook ;)
So, sorry, don't use Kompozer it is so 90s, do the 21st century thing and make the site in Wordpress, or if you need something more complex a full blown CMS... If WP is too techie for you there are loads of
online build it yourself sites there is no need for a time machine, really ;) there's even a
design-your-own-Wordpress-theme tool for total beginners!
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