Archive for the ‘Site Content’ Category
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I need to go to Dunwoody UMC tomorrow for a seminar, so I went to their site to pull up directions. My GPS is dead, so I'm having to do it the "old-fashioned" way by looking up directions on-line. :)
When they changed to their new design a few years ago, ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
I got an e-mail today that really got me thinking. It read, in part:
What are the main things new folks in town are looking for in a church website? Is it information on specific ministries? If so, which inistries does that tend to be? Children and families? Is it service ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Heal Your Church Website has a nice article today about churches that have problems with being inaccessible.
Some of the specifics that Dean mentions:
Bad Markup
Browser-Specific Navigation -- Things that only work in certain browsers
Charging Money for Sermons
Poor Navigation Hierarchy
Too Much Flash
He gets into more detail about why each item can cause ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Google Earth Hacks has just unveiled YourMap and I think it'll be a great tool for smaller churches to use. In a nutshell, it's a simple tool to embed a Google Map on your page. Some details:
Fill out a short form and the HTML code is generated for you.
Paste the ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I just posted a detailed entry on the Mt. Bethel blog with details about the products we use to power the site. The list includes vBulletin, SignUsUp, TinyMCE, WordPress and a bunch more. It's worth a read.
Mickey
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
About two weeks ago, Animoto launched. It's billed as "the end of slideshows" and they might be right.
Here's how it works:
You upload a bunch of your pictures.
You upload a song or choose one of the songs they provide.
You tell it to start.
From there, it analyzes your pictures, analyzes the ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Today at Mt. Bethel we launched a Google Map that shows all of our upcoming events, with each one being clickable to the details for that event. Here I'll explain how it was done.
First, take a look at the source code on the map page. All we'll do ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Yahoo has just posted a list of 13 ways to improve the speed of your website. Some of them are ones we've discussed on here in the past (ake JavaScript and CSS External being a big one).
Some of the tips really only apply to very large sites, but the list ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Here is a neat article I just found titled "What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Good Web Design".
The idea is that the Harry Potter books themselves aren't anything special. Nice artwork, but a rectangular shape, standard binding, normal English alphabet, white numbered pages, black text, etc.
What makes them special ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
I find myself often talking about the importance of good page titles, so I thought I'd get all of the info into one place.
The page title is very important for a number of reasons:
It was what people see in their toolbar when your site is open.
It is the default text ...
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