The Christian Chronicle is an
international newspaper for members of the Churches of Christ. They had
been using php-nuke to manage their online presence, but were limited
in what they could accomplish and had been very susceptible to hacks.
Their existing site was cumbersome to navigate and didn't reflect the
quality of the print edition of their publication.
In order to address the needs of the Christian Chronicle and its
readers, the site was completely redesigned and presented in a layout
more representative of a newspaper. A custom content management system
was developed that enabled more control over articles and the ability
to connect articles with related content. It also provided for more
robust calendars and event management, more control over galleries and
better presentation of images, and implemented membership features for
it's readers not available in the previous version of the site. The new
site and cms also provide for better ad management and ad serving, with
the capability of self-serve ad placement.
The Christian Chronicle website was launched with a
core set of features in December 2007, and additional features were incorporated in the first few months of 2008. In June of 2009, we implemented a major overhaul of the interface, added some more features to the site, and made user interaction more simple to encourage additional visitor feedback in the polls and comments.