Maybridge Community Church

Maybridge Community Church in Worthing, West Sussex have set out their web strategy requirements and appointed Red Dot Interactive to implement this vision.

The New Website

The Website uses the latest technology to deliver a fully dynamic, content management system that has been configured specifically for their Community needs. With a key focus on providing up to date information, the system allows Maybridge to deliver positive value for their existing community whilst attracting newcomers.

The site employs some sophisticated technology yet delivered in such a way that enables the staff to manage and update content with ease and efficiency. The website includes the following:

Media file Downloads - The CMS user can upload and manage files such as word documents, PDF's, MP3's etc then publish according to category and type. The user can also specifiy whether they wish to podcast the file, then everything else is handled automatically. Latest News and Downloads are displayed on the home page with the ability to select items they wish to make featured.

RSS Feeds and Podcasting - Within the CMS, any news item or Mp3 upload can be added for publication to a feed, allowing users to subscribe so they don't miss out when new items are added.

Events Calendar - The CMS includes an Events management system, giving Maybridge the ability to publish both public and members only events that are displayed and filtered by date, category and via a calendar. Access to Bookings and adding events can be accessed through a secure members only section (User Group Based)

Members/ Staff extranet - Members can sign up and login to a secure members area to access further inofrmation, tiered in a way that allows certain user groups to see restricted information on the site in all the areas, such as news, downloads events etc.

News - Fully membership based news module, allowing publication of news items and pages, thumbnail creation, RSS feeds and more.

Dynamic Photo Gallery - The user uploads an image, adds it to a gallery category and the CMS then does the rest, even generating thumbnail images for viewing and displaying though a javascript gallery viewer.

Header images - The CMS user can specify default header images for each section or specify a unique image for that page.

Search Engine Optimisation  (SEO) - The Maybridge Community Church website is optimised for search engines, allowing the user to manage keywords and descriptions for each page and an automatically generated sitemap which is submitted to Google. (Google Sitemap).

Microsite - Maybridge also work on projects within the Church framework ( The Mile Project ) so a microsite was created that sits within the same CMS and website but managed by different staff.

Newsletter - The ability to subscribe to newsletters.

MP3 player/Streaming - Integrated MP3 player that works from a standardised XSPF playlist that the user can define in the CMS. The player than handles loading and streaming the MP3's and images.

Category Management - Throughout the site, news, events, downloads etc are all setup using category filters. These can all be managed by the CMS administrator for a fully future proof system that can grow with their requirements.

Categories:  Corporate Websites, Content Managed Websites, Search Engine Optimisation,

02 April 2007 by howard