YWAM Information Technology

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Over the years I have had a love/hate relationship with website development. It began way back, ether near the end of the last century or the beginning of this one. That was the good ol' days when HTML 4.0 was still new, and using nested tables was the cool way of aligning content.

Well, today we went live with a new web site / social network built on Ning, a hosted Social Networking solution.

Thank you to those of you who contributed to my previous discussion about YWAM and Social Networking. At that point we were exploring Ning and a Joomla plugin called Community Builder as options. My preference was Community Builder, or maybe Ning as a subdomain on our site, but they decided to go with a full Ning site.

So I've been purchasing Domain Names for Impact World Tour now for a couple of years and we are looking at expanding our web presence and I was wondering if anyone knew of a cheaper way to buy domain names.  I currently have 40 to 50 and we are proberly going to be buying another 20 to 30 over the next year.  I currently use 1and1.com and I was thinking that there must be an easier way t

Paul Hopkins just posted on ywamkb.net his work in doing a small XML feed project that we have been wanting to do some time.

Aside from Bill H., I don't know anyone who regularly uses an RSS reader. I have off and on, but I think RSS is now starting to get really useful... for example, I now get announcements off of the YWAM Harpenden Intranet via RSS into my outlook. The nice thing about this is that it prompts me that something is going on, rather than having to visit the intranet multiple times a day for updates.

Thank you for all your feedback on the on-line application form application. The application is coming along slowly, but we are getting there. We have been able to incorporate a lot of your feedback into the application including ways to hopefully address the varied application processes out there and the legal issues.

Here are some of the features that the programmer is building into the on-line application:

I found this video introducing web 2.0 and its implications on the Cre8d Design Blog.

We are about to embark on a big project here and we need a couple of programmers of the .net persuasion and also a designer or two - if this is an area you are strong in (or even not so strong) and yo