Daily Innovation, Ministry Insights, and Thoughts from Todd Rhoades for Pastors and Church Leaders.
http://www.MondayMorningInsight.com

It’s always interesting how the timing on projects works out - here’s the second site launch announcement in a week and a half, and I have a third site waiting for one last change before it goes live as well.

I’m pleased to announce the re-launch of http://www.MondayMorningInsight.com - another site implemented on ExpressionEngine.  This time the site is a blog that outgrew it’s Typepad roots.

Boyink Interactive played more of an “implementation partner” role in this project, as site owner Todd Rhoades provided the overall site design (and I already see some changes he’s making.. ).

The biggest goal of this implementation was to take greater advantage of the site archives (all imported from Typepad) - which have over 1000 posts going back to September of 2004.  To this end, we created category pages that function as portal pages by showing:

• The latest posts in that category
• Reviews of related books and other resources
• Related posts from the new forums, which also run on EE.  This function took some custom code, and another EE weblog was used to store the relationships between the weblog categories and forum categories.

Other EE weblogs power the “static” pages (About MMI, ect., the Book Reviews, and the (not used yet) header area advertisements.

I think I had the lighter end of the project, as due to a new category structure and some mild changes to the structure of each post Todd had to go through and edit all of the existing content before the site could go live (and he appears to have survived!).

So if you’re involved with a church as a Pastor, leader, volunteer or staff member, head over to http://www.MondayMorningInsight.com—you’re sure to find some help, encouragement, challenges, and humor helpful in your work/ministry.