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by Coffeymate
Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:38 am
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: How to make a site of Complete Works or Songs Collection
Replies: 3
Views: 3242

Re: How to make a site of Complete Works or Songs Collection

Hello I would like to make a site with a corpus of few thousand songs, divided in a dozen of collections. Left falling navigation, good search and nothing else. Uploading songs manually as contents and collections as categories would be a few months job. I assume there is some easier way. I would b...
by Coffeymate
Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:30 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Non-Profit Site for Insitutions in multiple States
Replies: 2
Views: 1366

Re: Non-Profit Site for Insitutions in multiple States

Community Builder component sounds like a must, definately.  If you want to use the same domain name, multiple installations might work in subdomains.  Still not clear exactly what else you are aiming at.  Keep us informed on how this goes for you.
by Coffeymate
Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:11 am
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

Thanks for the update! Sounds like you are doing a good job at achieving that goal of getting involvement from the church members. At least registration is something. Now - there are individual blogging components - make them accessible to your membership and encourage them to blog how their prayers...
by Coffeymate
Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:34 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

Good job!

Would love to see it if there's a place it can be viewed online.
by Coffeymate
Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:09 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

you could just write those instructions or invitation to register into a "new" module and position it beneath the login area.  I decided to install Community Builder on our church site, and that fixed my issue. Thanks, Coffeymate. I wondered at the time I wrote that if you had - probably shoul...
by Coffeymate
Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:13 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

you could just write those instructions or invitation to register into a "new" module and position it beneath the login area. 
by Coffeymate
Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:01 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

.... What has been most suprising is the number of "elder" community members who have embraced this. Comments have included at last something for me to do on the computer etc. Now that a means for themto contribute stories etc has been added to the site they are making regular submssions. We all ha...
by Coffeymate
Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:08 pm
Forum: Non-Profit Organizations and Joomla!
Topic: Getting members to register & use our church website??
Replies: 21
Views: 7652

Re: Getting members to register & use our church website??

I've struggled with this issue for over 10 years with church web sites.  One thing I've done is get somebody to put the weekly bulletin up and sound department to put up sermons and things the kids have done.  A simple little free online game or puzzle is helpful too. I feel your frustrati...