YWAM Webmasters | Helping you design and build your website

Open source software like Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress have grown in both popularity and functionality over the past few years, and now provide one of the best options for any YWAM base (Or any other non-profit organization) planning to build a new website.

My experience with open source Content Management Systems (CMS) is limited to Drupal. After a long comparison, I chose Drupal because of the features it offered, which have proven to be very useful to our YWAM Missions Center.

The most obvious advantage to using Drupal for our YWAM website is that it is completely free. This means that I can get our whole team involved in the project, and even teach other YWAM bases how to use Drupal for their own websites, without worrying about the cost. While developing the YWAM Russia website a few years ago using Dreamweaver and the companion program Contribute, I ran into numerous problems trying to implement collaboration with our other staff around the country. In then end, I was forced to abandon Dreamweaver and seek an open source server based CMS. Drupal, while a little challenging at first, has proven to be the best fit for our websites.

In the coming months, as I begin to develop the YWAM Webmasters website, I hope to share all that I have learned about using Drupal, and promote the use of open source software in YWAM.