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[Daniel Holmlund]

Hi Raoul,

I think that moving the website to Drupal is an excellent idea for
many reasons.  If you are beginning to form a group to work on this
project, I would like to volunteer.  I have several years of
experience working with and deploying Drupal for missionaries here in
France.  Typically, these sites are either online magazines for French
speaking Africans or French podcasts.  I particularly enjoyed working
on http://cheminsdevie.info/ the French translation/adaption of James
Vernon McGee's 5 year 'Thru the Bible' program which was done for
TransWorld Radio.

I'd really like to see the BibleTime website become more user oriented
and allow more people to participate together online.

Daniel Holmlund
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Raoul Snyman
<raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
> 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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> Raoul Snyman, B.Tech IT (Software Engineering)
> Saturn Laboratories
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