Web Sites
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Websites for Individual workers
There are a few specialist web hosting options for individual mission workers. Of course having pages at one of these will identify the worker as a missionary, which isn't always desirable.
- http://www.missionary411.com/
- One great CMS for missionaries (end-users) is MinistryHome.org. A social networking site for ministry workers.
- http://prayerguard.net that provides free web sites for missionaries geared around mobilizing prayer for them and their work.
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Websites for Organisations
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Webserver options
There are at least four options when it comes to having a web site depending on where the webserver actually is:
- Having your own server at your office. This requires a high level of security, to prevent people getting onto your local network, and constant monitoring and updating of the server.
- Renting a whole server located at an outside organisations facility.
- Renting part of a web server (or a "virtual" server).
- Having an outside organisation not just provide the server, but also provide some sort of website creation software.
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Website creation options
There are several options for creating the website:
- Using an editor to create pages by hand.
- Using a tool to create websites. As well as allowing editing these tools allow you to keep track of links within the site, and have templates to give pages a common look. The leading (and expensive) ones are: Microsoft Frontpage which is part of Microsoft Office (and is being discontinued) and Dreamweaver from Adobe (formerly Macromedia).
- Using some sort of software which allows you to create pages within your browser. These are often called ContentManagementSystems (CMS).