Developing the Advaya Website

Now you’re visiting our Advaya website you quickly notice that it is still under development. Pages seem to be missing. Certain information – which you expect to see on most websites – does not seem exist.

Our About page is a great example and, true, Advaya’s home page does not look like much either.

To say that more work needs to be done to this site is merely stating the obvious.

So, to give you a glance of what is going on while you read this post, I decided to provide some clarity on how Advaya’s website is supposed to develop. This will therefore not be the sort of topical post you would see here.

With most of the important technical issues that makes this site functional out of the way, we now have an online presence that allows us to post articles. This is one of the two main purposes of the Advaya site. Therefore, while we continue to design and develop all other pages, we are already putting the site’s article section to good use.

Rather than just calling it ‘blog’ or ‘articles’ we decided to name this section ‘Thoughts’. We expect to fill most of this site with content that reflects our thinking. Most of it should be original and authentic and, ideally, it should provoke yours.

This page is among a few other articles that have already been posted, and you can expect to see more coming. Technically, the article section probably is the most stable and furthest-developed section of the Advaya site so we have taken to to the road and are driving it.

We continue to design and develop a distinct Advaya branded site. Because our practice is new and destined to grow organically, we may build this site iteratively. We are clear on what should not change – at least not now. The logo, images and the Advaya brand name will stay, for example.

We are playing with colors. Although we are getting close, we have not yet found a palette we like best. Intending to stay clear from typical corporate color schemes we are mostly playing with natural colors – those of sand, rocks and soil.

More information will gradually be added to the site, and more pages will become available as we continue both our practice and site-building journeys. There are two aspects to this; the writing of content and the design of page layouts, and both are given attention.

We are working toward the inclusion of the following pages:

Coming from the main menu, which can be found at the top of each page, this will be a single page that presents information about Advaya. Both its content and design will be kept simple at first, to be further completed over time.

The About page will tell readers more about who we are; where our name comes from; who is behind Advaya, and what we are about as a growing health practice.

Coming from the main menu, this will be a single page that includes links to practice-specific others. The purpose of this page will be to introduce our products and services, and to help you navigate quickly to the information you are most interested in.

Coming from the Practice Page, these pages provide detailed practice-specific information. There will be a dedicated page for each practice. All Practice Detail Pages will probably be laid-out identically to maintain a degree of consistency. Each practice-specific page may also provide links to articles and other publications that are topically related.

Once all this work has been completed or is well underway we will train our sights on the inclusion of a few other sections. All these sections are already included but to avoid distraction we switched them off.

What are we talking about?

This will be a forum-based site section that allows you to connect with like-minded healers, subject matter experts and potential customers from around the globe. You will also be able to use this forum to ask questions and to make your healing knowledge and skills available to others.

We are considering to open discussions that relate specifically to our blog posts [“Thoughts”]. This may allow you to respond either below each Throught post in its comment box or to join post-related discussions in the forum.

Although only a few minor issues stand in our way before being able to launch this section we first want to ensure that all other sections work properly. We hope to birth our Advaya Community some time before June 2018.

We probably are most excited about launching our Advaya Event section. Like all others, we already included this functionality technically but have not made it available for use yet.

The Events section will allow you to see and select learning events to attend. Not all learning events may be facilitated by us; we also might invite other healing experts to share their skills and knowledge at events for which you can request invitation.

We recently added an automated booking system to the site. This will also remain on stand-by until our practice is ready to operate properly.

We envisage to start small; with only a few services and practice hours covered. The plan is to experiment with both first. The objective is to understand how the Advaya practice should operate to meet our client expectations best.

As the implementation of a booking system can be complex and does not leave much room for error, we prefer to handle bookings manually until we are confident that the system works properly. Therefore, most likely, we will not make the booking system available until later this year.

We would love to make some of our practice guides available to you. These guides will enable you to practice some of our teachings individually. These guides may be made available as downloadable materials or embedded in pages that can only be accessed on subscription.

It is our intent to produce high-quality materials and to offer proper support channels for buyers. We believe that anyone who purchases our guides should receive additional support, whenever they require this. Although we have started the development of some of these guides it still may take a few more months before we can offer them as downloads.

With all the afore mentioned either planned or already underway we aim to create a different spiritual and alternative health practice. Much of this work will be done outside our normal day jobs and family lives and will therefore progress slowly but steadily.

Along our practice and site-building ways we will continue to publish our thinking; more information about our practices and provide you with updates on how Advaya is coming along generally.

If anything, we have come to see all this as a very exciting adventure. With each step forward we become more and more excited about the realisation of our vision, which is Advaya.

We are looking forward to seeing you come along on our journeys.