Headstand Media

The Presbytery of Chicago (PCUSA) has launched a new website designed and built by Chicago Web Design firm, Headstand Media. Headstand Media is pleased to be able to advise, recommend, train, design and integrate open source solutions for our non-profit customers and organizations. By tapping into the vast open source community, the majority of the feature needs and requirements of many organizations can be installed, configured and customized for a fraction of the cost of traditional custom development.

In this case, the new open source PoC website was developed using WordPress as the main content management system, and vBulletin as the discussion board engine. Together, these two PHP and mySQL based packages enable the PoC to manage and maintain the site content using existing staff and volunteers.

As an integral part of the project, Headstand Media trained a core technical leadership group of PoC staff to use WordPress and vBulletin. Using that training, PoC converted most of their old site’s content to the new site themselves, using WordPress and vBulletin tools in standard web browsers. This core group will train additional staff and volunteers after the site launch so that the ongoing upkeep and maintenance of the site will be distributed throughout the organization, meeting one of their key project goals.

Other project goals included: better search engine optimization and performance, an updated consistent and enhanced user interface design, better site stability, site traffic analytics (We’re using Google Analytics), public and private sharing of documents and workgroup communications, integrated audio and video, a member church directory, blogging, commenting, calendaring, RSS feeds, podcasting and much more.

If your non-profit organization is still struggling with the typical website update bottlenecks, limited site features, frustrations with unresponsive vendor partners, a website that is difficult to find in the search engines, and other such annoyances and irritations, we suggest that you contact The Presbytery of Chicago, and ask how Headstand Media has performed for them.

Then we’re confident you’ll give us a call at 312.768.7450 or contact us through our web form. We’ll be happy to meet with you and discuss your project needs, offer advice based upon many years of experience, and work toward an appropriate solution.

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