“In 2002, Portland, Ore.’s Sunset Presbyterian Church had a
200+-page Web site that contained mainly static content about the
church, its ministries, and events. While many people were using
the Web site and submitting content for it, the all-volunteer team
maintaining it, of which I was a member, was overworked. Half of
our time was spent editing existing pages and removing old content.
Everything was done by hand: creating pages, uploading them to the
site via FTP, and checking them against the site’s style
guidelines. All new volunteers required lots of training to become
fully contributing members. Our team needed to find a way to become
more efficient.“The software that supported the site was old and inflexible. A
mod_perl 1 plugin handled basic page templating and navigation, but
it didn’t easily allow interaction with other programs; thus, we
could add no new features, such as discussion boards, weblogs, and
photo galleries…”
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