Friday, September 01, 2006

The New DG Site

The Desiring God folks have unveiled their new web site.

To find out what's new about it, you can take a full tour here. I'll reprint below the summary:

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A Short Summary of What is New at DesiringGod.org

We are pleased to announce the new desiringGod.org, which we have redesigned from the ground up. We invite you to enjoy our new site and offer you this quick summary of what is new to help get you started.


Our New Site Is Easier to Use


First, you will find our new website even easier to use. We want you thinking hard about what we have to say in our sermons and messages—not about how to use our site. You will find improved organization and navigation that allows you to:
  • Always know where you are on the site, and quickly get from one spot to another
  • Discover related content more easily
  • Browse our resources and products in multiple ways, such as our sermons by date, Scripture text, series, topic, occasion, or title
  • See what resources we recommend as most fully articulating our essential ideas, many featured with short audio excerpts to help give you the big picture.
  • Explore an improved topic index
  • View your search results in tabs for each site section
  • Find helpful additional information on our more detailed product pages
  • Purchase, donate, and register for conferences more easily
  • Set up an account and manage your account information more easily
  • Learn about our ministry more easily in About Us

Our New Site Has More Content

Second, you will find an even more complete library of John Piper’s resources. We have added much additional content and several new types of content in our Resource Library. You can:
  • Listen to 25 years of John Piper’s sermon audio
  • Watch videos of the sermon each week (and over the next several months we will post our entire 4-year video archive)
  • Move quickly among the audio, video, and manuscript of a message in a single interface
  • Listen to and watch the messages in a new media player
  • Begin to find more than 200 previously unposted articles and “lost” sermons, as we post them over the next several months
  • Listen to audio questions and answers
  • Listen to and watch audio and video message excerpts
  • Subscribe to our weekly sermon podcast (coming soon) and daily radio podcast

Our goal has always been to serve you by providing God-centered resources from the ministry of John Piper. Now we hope that you will find that content even more accessible and easier to use.

Go back to the full tour.

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Special thanks for this new site go to Matt Perman, who has been managing this project for the past couple of years and investing countless hours and late nights into dreaming up ways to make the DG site more usable and accessible.