Luciana  | 2007-02-06
A good compromise for a beginner
With Ekklesia 360 you have to come up with a website design and send the PSD or pay the monk development team to create one. Either way it's difficult to make changes to the way your CMS looks. That means giving up flexibility. This might be convenient for beginners, but it's a great impediment to an advanced user. Another ugly aspect is the variable price. You don't know how much it will cost until it's finished. On the other hand, Ekklesia comes loaded with features that will make a non-experienced user love it (from RSS feeds to blogs and photo galleries). But I would advice you to search further before settling on this one.

Etienne  | 2007-03-13
A Response to Luciana
Hi, my name is Etienne de Bruin and I head the team of developers over at Monk Development, creators of Ekklesia 360. I happened to find this site and wanted to clarify a few mis-conceptions from Luciana. (I don't know who this is or if they've used the system, but the information they posted is inaccurate.) 1. Our system is designed to allow both beginners to use it as well as advanced users. Advanced users can learn the API and have full control over all aspects of site design, including building their own site and managing it themselves. 2. Our pricing options are presented in our product proposals. We offer flexible pricing based on whether you plan to design the site and rebuild it or want one of our 10+ design partners to do it for you and rebuild it. There are many options in between, so pricing is determined on that. If you'd like information on pricing we can provide it. We believe that there are two basic phases to web site development: Design Phase and Content Phase. Both start at the same point in time. We think that designers should help with the design phase and our customer should do the content phase. We make it as flexibile as possible for designers to integrate our CMS into a design and we make it as simple as possible for our customers to enter and maintain their content without having to worry about what their content will *look* like. It's all good, it's all 10 and we are fanatical about putting the best product out there for our customers. Thank you, Monk Development

CMSGuru  | 2007-03-13
Ekklesia Options
With Ekklesia you can design your own site, manage the css, select a design partner or many other options. The API allows people who are more advanced have full control over their site, while beginners can let the work be done by Monk. A great solution whether you are a beginner or a highly advanced programmer/modder.

Anonymous  | 2007-02-05
Flexible Framework
Ekklesia 360 is the next generation of CMS for churches. It provides a flexible framework that allows freedom of design and it is web-based for easy content management.