Providence Baptist Church
Once again, our father thought of us, when his church decided they needed a new website to replace their old, static website. They did not wish to pay their site developer every time they wanted to update the content on their site, so we found a content management system that suited their needs, called Cuyahoga.
Our first task was to recreate the content from their original website, but with a brand new, custom theme. Then, we built a custom podcasting module that automatically pulls the ID3 tags from the MP3 files of their recorded sermons, and presents them for their users to browse. Finally, we created a private, members only portal for their church members to use for online fellowship.
To simplify the maintenance of their site, Providence chose to host with us on WebHost4Life, and we assisted them with the timely migration of their domain name from their old hosting provider to GoDaddy for easier DNS management.
If you would like to visit their site, please navigate to http://www.provbaptist.org/.
02/15/2010 Update: Providence Baptist has a new pastor who has decided that he'd like to handle the website for his church on his own. We no longer have anything to do with this site.
NEOHSC
The Northeast Ohio Homeschool Connection (NEOHSC) is a group of homeschooling parents who originally gathered around a Yahoo! Groups mailing list, but eventually determined they needed more features to nurture their community.
With a heavy emphasis on the discussion-oriented nature of their collaboration, we selected DotNetNuke with a commercially available module, ActiveForums, installed to host their email-enabled discussions. They also wanted a picture gallery, event calendar, and a map to let them see where everybody lived.
Most of their site is private, for members only, but you can visit their public landing page to get a taste of what we put together for them, at http://www.neohsc.com/.
We designed, built, and continue to host the site for NEOHSC. Additionally, Ken’s wife, Wendee, even took most of the photographs that we used for the design of the site. If you’d like to see more of Wendee’s work, you can see her website here.
Mertz Manufacturing, LLC
Our father, Lowell LeFebvre, runs the computer department at Mertz Manufacturing, in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Naturally, with our experience building a variety of websites, over the years, he asked us to help him out when it came time to build a site for Mertz.
A critical requirement was the ability to easily update the site with new content, in a flexible and orderly fashion. These updates needed to be delegated to the managers of each product line, so we implemented a role-based security system to allow individual employees the ability to update their own portions of the site. Also, as the programmer on staff is most familiar with Microsoft technologies, we settled upon the DotNetNuke content management system as their platform. In addition to the public site, which you can visit by browsing to http://www.mertzok.com, we also created a private employee-only portal, to act as foundation for their company intranet.
With a little training from us, Mertz chose to control their own hosting environment for the site.