David Turner on June 15th, 2009

Earlier today, I received an email asking what functionality Arena provides when used to drive a church’s public website.  I thought I’d share my response…
Content Management System (CMS)
Arena is a CMS.  It may not be the fanciest and easiest to use CMS out there, but it provides all the functionality for configuring portals, templates, pages, [...]

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David Turner on May 23rd, 2009

Not sure anyone is going to see this post, since I moved and didn’t tell anyone.
Why?
I wanted a new blog.  I wasn’t thrilled by how dated my old blog looked, and I think I’m also going to try and write more often (let’s say… oh… at least once a week).  Figured I’d clean it up [...]

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David Turner on July 29th, 2006

Here’s a little more history about Arena and how the partnership between CCV and Shelby came to be.
Over the last two-and-a-half years we (CCV) developed our own ChMS system called Solomon. Like Jon mentioned, we were getting a lot of interest from other churches, and after seeing Solomon, churches usually asked what our plans were [...]

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David Turner on July 29th, 2006

My first blog entry is about who I am (more than the two sentence blurb under “About Me”). To start with, I’m a programmer, not a writer. I love to write functions, event handlers, recursive loops, etc. I struggle with nouns, verbs and adjectives, so be kind if you read any more of my “writings.” [...]

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