Hi all,

I'm working on our ministry's website and am wondering if anyone has a better suggestion for archiving monthly devotionals for visitors to sift through and select, than simply creating a new page and link for each archive to be viewed? Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance

Matthew

Put them individually onto a pdf file which your visitors can download. That way you can have one page with all the relevant references divided according to your own set of criteria... and each reference has a download link.

You mentioned archiving monthly devotionals. Are they at one time on a current web page? If so, it might be less work to cut/paste from current page to an archive page. You can catalog archived pages however you want (type, subject, month, year, etc.), or just have one long page to scroll through.

Perhaps if you provided a URL to your current archive, you might get more intelligent response as people would be able to see what exactly you are archiving?

However, if I understand you correctly what you want is a content management system, CMS that whenever you create a new daily devotional the old one is archived, and indexed automatically. There are quite alot of these out there many of them are free. Personally, I sort of like Microsoft Sharepoint (I know that a lot of people hate everything Microsoft so my plug for them should bring out several other CMS alternatives many which will be free). I know that Network Solutions (because I use it) has a subscription based Sharepoint server solution, that is rock solid.

There used to be an Australian guy with a product called Content Spring that was really excellent for about $25.00 USD but he and his site vanished one day (must have gone on walk-about)!

You could just use WordPress for that matter. Automatic archiving and it's free.

Great suggestions. You guys have given me some new avenues to consider, thanks! Levi, I'm sorry, but I don't have the site up yet, but am currently developing it with VSD. I'll check out the free CMS's, as well as take a gander at Wordpress, which I've used before but never considered for archiving purposes. Janys, unfortunately, I don't have Adobe's software for creating pdf's, altough that's a good suggestion also. Anyway, thanks again Janys, Levi and Tom, you've been helpful in giving me some worthwhile directions to consider.

Matthew

You don't need Acrobat from Adobe to create PDF files. In fact there are several inexpensive and free creators out there. I have used free PrimoPDF (it installs a pdf printer, just create the document in MS Word, etc and then print it to the pdf printer and it creates a pdf file) in the past and thought it rendered very accurately.

You can download it here: http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx

If you have Word 2007 > MS has a free plugin to save docs as pdf.

Good point Tom, I forgot all about that. Additionally, save-as PDF is built-in to all MS Office 2010 products as well!

FYI
Looks lke the "Content Spring CMS" is back - http://millstream.com.au/view/
Kirk