Three weeks ago I was asked to set-up a Web-Site for Voice for the Voiceless in Australia. The mandate for Voice for the Voiceless’s is to raise awareness of gender based injustice issues. It also aims to focus people with 30 days of prayer though a 30 days of prayer for the voiceless booklet, which can be purchased through the web-site for $5.00 each.

The web-site’s launch was scheduled to correspond with the launch of an Australian nation wide radio advertisement campaign. You can actually listen to some of the stories on the web-site, Voice for the Voiceless Audio Stories.

Since I am somewhat familiar with Wordpress, and I was only given two weeks to build it, I chose that as the platform to build the site on.

All the content was already written, which usually is the longest process in developing a new web-site, so we loaded Wordpress on our web-host and started to build the site.

Although Wordpress is primarily a blogging engine, Wordpress works very well as a content management system (CMS) for a basic web-site. I deleted the sample blog post and comments on the site and then started to create “static” pages.

For the template I used was a free one called Spiritual Journal by Church Communications Pro. My only real complaint about the template is that it isn’t very widget friendly, which makes it a bit harder to modify the sidebar.

Wordpress has all sorts of plugins available for it. Here is a list of the plugins that I used for the Voice for the Voiceless web-site.

• All in One SEO Pack - for Search Engine Optimization
• Audio player - to embed .mp3 files to play on the site
• cforms II - Enhanced contact form for Wordpress
• Click Tracking - View the click patterns for people on the site
• Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Automates and streamlines the upgrade process for Wordpress
• Wordpress Database Backup - On-demand and scheduled backup for the Wordpress database
• WPAdMentor - Banner and Text Ad management
• WP YouTube - Makes embedding YouTube videos easy

I followed the How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with Wordpress guide to create the site. Although the site is not designed to make money in the way that is covered in the guide, most of the steps in the guide were extremely helpful.

Please check out the site and leave any comments below about your thoughts on the site.

Also if you want to link to the site from you own web-site it would help us to spread awareness of gender based injustice issues.

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