New GEMeDOT.com website
We’re really excited to announce the release of our new eDOT website . Being a technology ministry, our website gets scrutinzied a little bit more than most peoples’ sites so its nice have a refreshing look and interaction. For being an information website, I really like our new place. Our goal is that this will help us recruit more people into working with us both in full time capacities, short term capacities and even as volunteers. Based on WordPress (just like this site), it includes a blog (which I’ll be one of the writers on) and other changing parts.
This is a bitter sweet project as it’s Laura’s (our web developer) first major project since getting out of German Language school. And will be her last major eDOT project (at least for a while) as she’s about to have her first baby. Check out the blog she did about what it took to make this website work. Not only did she do a lot of custom code for it, but she originally used so many different Wordpress plug-ins (add-ons of code that people make specifically to work with Wordpress) that the system would crash. We actually had to scale back how many plugins we were using but it still works wonderfully.
The really cool part of this project was that everything we used was free. Wordpress is open-source and so are all the plugins (we did make some donations to some of the plugin writers just becase they saved us some much by already having the code).
