AdvancedMinistry April 3, 2006
AdvancedMinistry™ offers a web-based CMS for churches, musicians, ministries and missionaries.
Web Standards: NO (Some of the templates are better than others.)
SEO Friendly URLS: NO (eg. URL http://www.northpointe.info/index.cfm?i=1074&mid=3 for a page on what the church believes.)
Syndication: No
Unique Design: No
Web Based: YES
(Learn about these at Church CMS Ranking)
ACSTechnologies Church CMS
ACSTechnologies offers the Extend Platform. “Extend is a Web-based application that helps you and your staff manage your Web site and keep your content fresh and relevant. Changes are simple to make and can be done by your staff as they navigate through your site from within our special Web content management system. Extend gives organizations like yours the ability to maintain a high quality Web site by displaying information and content that is useful to the people who visit it.”
Web Standards: NO (They do imbed a number of DIV elements into Tables.)
SEO Friendly URLS: NO (eg. URL http://www.csbc.com/-1999997777/-1999980837/-1998823194.htm for a page on How to be a Christian.)
Syndication: No
Unique Design: YES (Some of their sites are unique custom designs and some are template based.)
Web Based: YES
(Learn about these at Church CMS Ranking)
Church Content Management Systems (CMS) Ranking April 2, 2006
Our goal is to help people research and select a content management system for their church. Here are a few of the areas we rank:
Web Standards: Does the CMS use accessible code to ensure cross-browser and disability accessibility?
SEO Friendly URLS: Does the CMS use user friendly urls that also help people find your church through search engine optimization?
Syndication: Can users syndicate content?
Unique Design: Are you forced to use their designs, or use one that reflects your church.
Web Based Admin: Can admins login to a web-based tool to manage/edit their website rather than install software on their own.