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.

Websites for Organisations

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.

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).