Sunday, December 19, 2010

Phase 1 Construction Complete!

The first phase of the BVCC website upgrade has been completed. We went “live” with the new website on Saturday, 12/18. Here are some of the new features incorporated in our website:


For those “techies” out there our website now runs on the Joomla 1.5 Web CMS platform. Joomla is a free, open source software for websites that utilizes technologies such as PHP and SQL among many others to create dynamic websites. The BVCC website was designed with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in mind so our site is easily “readable” by search engines like Google. The website is hosted for free by Dreamhost which is a full featured hosting provider who guarantees 100% uptime.

1/3/2011 update:
We’ve been making some minor tweaks to the website since it’s launch. Just yesterday we added a new section called “Join the Discussion”. This section was the brain child of Rick Hughey and is intended to invite conversation on the website around topics of spirituality. Each week we will be posting a new question for personal reflection. Everyone is encouraged to discuss the topic online using the comments feature. We hope this will be a fun way for us to interact with each other and with visitors. We also hope that it offers opportunity for growth and learning from one another. Thanks to Rick Hughey for sharing this great idea!

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