This is a copy of the press release published on Pleth’s corporate website regarding the recent launch of The Church Alive’s web2.0 website.
Pleth Networks, LLC, an Arkansas Based Web Design & Development Firm announced on Tuesday that his firm had launched a web2.0 redesign for The Church Alive in Conway, Arkansas.
"The Church Alive is my home church and my wife and I are very active in the ministry there, this project has been one of my pet projects this year," said Rohrscheib. "I have communicated back and forth with the ministry staff at the church throughout this past year to pinpoint what our goals were going for this redesign project. We also enlisted a group of web saavy church members to serve as our test group, we would bounce design revisions and functionality issues off of them during the development process to get their feedback. We then went to work on putting together the finished product that is online today." added Rohrscheib.
The new Church Alive website features a lot of web2.0 capabilities such as an ajax driven online store and podcast feed. In addition to web2.0 and social networking capabilities the church website also features the Trumba events calendar and staff blogs.
"We have also taken some extra steps to improve on a few things we already had," said Rohrscheib. "We streamlined the online giving process so that it starts on the church website and ends up flowing through PayPal’s secure online processors. Our church bookstore is also a lot more user friendly than it was in the past, it used to be a seperate component on the website but now it all flows through the site fluidly." added Rohrscheib.
"One of the industry’s top buzzwords was in the back of my mind going into this project" said Rohrscheib. "User generated content is a popular term, in the case of this project it’s my hope that it will be a platform for our church membership to interact with one another online through the various blogs and components."
The Church Alive website is also managed by an internal staff consisting of volunteers, media technicians, and staff pastors. The new website also features some contributed content from a church member who has been compiling poetry for the past year. The content management aspect of the new website is driven by the wordpress framework, an open sourced php/mysql framework that has been modified for ease of use and user level access.
"I am really excited about the launch of the new Church Alive Website and look forward to watching it grow. We know from our past Google Analytics reports that the old website had an impressive global reach, hopefully this new build will pick up where the old site left off," added Rohrscheib.
To visit the new Church Alive website, please visit www.thechurchalive.org or click on the screenshot below:
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Excellent work on the new Church Website! It has a great fluid web 2.0 design. Our Church really needed something like this, you nailed it flawlessly.