Archive for November, 2005

PDF is for printing

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Check out this great article about why PDFs should typically be used only on documents that are meant to be printed - not on "normal" pages. I find many sites have PDF files all over the place, for things that have no business being in that format. I had intended ...

Test, test, test!

Friday, November 11th, 2005

You might be tempted to use some fancy technology for your navigation. While that's not necessarily a problem, you need to test your site in various browsers (with various settings) to see what people might come across.According to recent stats, around 10% of users don't have Java enabled (many turn ...

Search Engine Optimization – More In-Depth

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

More and more often, people are turning to Google to find their new church. It's important that you think about what search terms people might use to find a church like yours, then make sure your church ranks well for those terms.A common search term for finding a new church ...

Let ‘em search your site!

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

I'm coming across a growing number of church sites (both large and small) that don't have a search option. Why? I recently changed ours over from the Google-assisted search to one that I built myself using PHP's awesome "full text search" capabilities. If you have a database-driven site, that is ...