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[Raoul Snyman]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:06 +0200 (EET), Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Other things to consider are page translations and a forum. Can the
> pages be translated with Drupal? Does it have an integrated forum or is
> it easy to add one? We have the subforum under www.crosswire.org/forums
> but it's not very active and people don't find it because we don't link
> to it. We should do something about it. We had a forum once but we had
> less folks doing things then and didn't want to take the burden of
> operating it.

Yup, if you go and look at the OpenLP site[1], there's the normal english
version, plus a mostly complete German version[2] and a spotty French
version[3]. I haven't figured out how to get the mission blog (the big
green block) to change for each translation, but I'm sure there's a way
around it.

Drupal[4] has a forums feature, pretty urls, OpenID integration, Twitter
integration and image galleries, plus lots of other things.

> Yes, and it's better to have links from mutually independent domains. I
> hate facebooks and twitters but they are worth keeping for this reason
> alone :) And I don't even have a link from my own home page! It has to
> be done immediately.

I'll be doing this too :-)

> Are we going to be "evil" with our search optimization? I don't mean
> spamming or such, but for example adding the word "life" could get
> searches like "life application bible study". It wouldn't feel very
> wrong because "application" (and "program") may have a different
> connotation attached with "Bible study" but it's still a standard word
> for "software", and people interested in bible study might be interested
> in BibleTime, too.
> 
> But the most important thing is to find the relevant searches which
> people might use and add all the words in critical places. We could all
> spend ten minutes thinking about and testing some searches, and the
> results can be dramatic for BibleTime's success. After all, we don't
> have much means to attract people, except www searches and links.

I think what we need to do is to decide on a particular search phrase we
think is probably used most often, and to really do our best to cater for
that phrase. Doing more than one phrase might dilute our emphasis, and thus
score us lower on all the possible search phrases.


[1] http://openlp.org/
[2] http://openlp.org/de
[3] http://openlp.org/fr
[4] http://drupal.org/

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