You can keep an eye on what's going on at lymingtonchurch.org by subscribing to one of our news feeds. The easiest ways to do this are:

1. Using the firefox browser's 'live bookmark' feature. Go to any category page (e.g. Weddings) or the home page and click on the feed icon in the address bar or at the foot of the page. This will feed you newly created items in that category.
2. Using the 'Simply RSS' application in facebook. Once you've installed the application just point it to our feed: http://www.lymingtonchurch.org/rss.xml to get newly created items or http://www.lymingtonchurch.org/changesrss for all changes including changes to existing items (e.g. updates to the weekly news sheet).

Drupal
The website was created using an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) called Drupal (www.drupal.org) version 5.9. It is very easy to set up as long as you have access to PHP (click to see which version of PHP we're running) and MySQL on your host. It works 'out of the box' to provide a very good website, and there is a vast number of plug-in modules available from the drupal website to provide any extra functions you could want (see drupal.org/project/Modules for a complete list).

Drupal modules
lymingtonchurch.org uses the following modules:

Core modules

comment; contact; help; menu; path; profile (for Mass Contact); search; statistics; taxonomy; tracker; upload

Contrib modules

Front Page - special front page, not used yet
Event - for the diary and calendar (seems better than CCK and Calendar)
Image & Image Gallery - for the image galleries
Nice Menus - for the drop-down menus (will discontinue soon for accessibility and compatibility reasons)
Path Filter - to get href="internal:" addresses which allow use of subdirectories on the server for testing. (You need to clear the cache_filter table when you move the website to a different directory.)
Tagadelic - tag cloud generator
Mass Contact - to send mail to all or selected users
Captcha and captcha riddler - to try to prevent automated registrations by spammers
Releasemonitor - keep an eye on updates for modules. Not 100% but better than nothing

Patches etc

This statement in settings.php fixes blank or corrupted pages caused by php running out of memory when too many modules are loaded (default limit is 8M): ini_set('memory_limit', '64M');

There are three small changes required for captcha-riddler v5.x-3, see http://drupal.org/node/175935 for details. Patched version of the module is attached below (login to see attachments)

We developed a new module called changesrss to syndicate changes rather than additions. See http://drupal.org/node/177744 for details.

Hosting at Penguin
This site is hosted at Penguin Internet Ltd who are the most superb hosting company I've come across. I've been with them for years. Their email support is near instant and their help in getting the required environment to run Drupal has been exemplary.