Archive for the ‘Site Content’ Category
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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Friday, December 15th, 2006
I'd venture to say that close to half of all church websites feature a photo of the church on the front. It's somewhat logical, but it's not very well thought out.
Ask any minister "what is the church?" and they'll almost certainly reply "the people in our congregation" - and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
When building your church website, you need to assume that you'll get some visitors that know nothing about your church. As such, you should always offer links to more information when you're writing content on your site.The two biggest examples are your facility and your staff. The site shouldn't focus ...
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