A Church Multimedia Website

Innovative & interactive design The site should feature an innovative and very interactive design, combined with fast graphics and presentations that will appeal to visitors to the site. (Specifically A Flash Powered Site) Database‐backed content framework The website should be backed by a RDBMS backed content framework that will be accessible across all levels with relevant degrees of access, making the data that from which the website is built scalable, seamless, and ready for display across multiple devices, and presentable in various formats. Document management infrastructure with native support for PDFs, DOCs, XLSs etc out of the box The gains of distinguishing data and metadata from its presentation layer should make the infrastructure resilient, and compatible with other systems. The site system should understand the concept of a document. Each node or single unit of related data blocks can be represented in different formats, and can be exported to many popular document formats. Flexible CMS and publishing architecture The site should be backed by a CMS, or content management system, that will allow for the editing of all nodes of the website by authorized personnel. The CMS should be accessible via a web browser and should be made easy to control all aspects of the web. Decentralized permissions and user access The site’s CMS should have in place a decentralized permissions system that allows for distributed authoring of content across all divisions. Each node, or piece of data, should have metadata attached to it –such as owner, date created, date modified etc. In order to enable different authors to be working on pieces of the site at the same time and also leaves room for accountability. So we can always trace the ownership of any item in the node tree to the source and the time it was created. Streaming video and audio integration The CMS should feature templates and capabilities that allows for the streaming of video and audio via the site, and should be supported by viable open source media servers that are capable of serving life and streaming media as well as on demand video and audio files. Forms and data collection interfaces Should be able to collect user opiniont through comments in articles, forums and blogs – or forms, opinion polls and surveys over the gamut of the entire site by just creating these objects in the CMS. Integrated user profiles for personnel and users The system should regard authors and editors as users. Each access to the system at each level should be seen as a user’s permission. Each person or personnel – must be created as a user before they are granted permission to access part of the node tree. This not only implements a transparent system of responsibility and accountability; it also allows us to limit, or configure each user’s access to resources in the system.