Archive for the ‘Site Reviews’ Category
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Church: First UMC - Clarion, PA
URL: http://www.fumc-clarion.org/
Let's start with the good news -- this site has a well-done page title. Now that we have that out of the way, let's get to work.
First off, I hate frames. There were some decent reasons for having them 10 years ago, ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Church: Crestline UMC - Crestline, Ohio
URL: http://www.gbgm-umc.org/crestlineumc/
When entering the title for this post, I needed to know where this church was located. My eyes automatically went to the page title in the menu bar, but the location wasn't there. However, it was easy to find the text on the page, ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Church: First UMC - Wabash, Indiana
URL: http://www.wabashfirstumc.org/
My first thought when I pulled up this site was that it felt a bit dated. While I still tend to use tables more than I probably should, this site uses tables a LOT. However, the choice of colors is pretty good ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I was trying to contact some large churches in the Atlanta area to see what they were doing to try to conserve water during the current drought. I used a list from 2005 of "Atlanta's 25 Largest Places of Worship" (paper copy -- not available online).
These are BIG churches. ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Church: First UMC - Swainsboro, GA
URL: http://www.swainsborofumc.org
Initial thoughts
As you might expect, my eyes were immediately drawn to the animated colored text at the top of the page. It seems like a bad move, for three reasons:
1 - If you're gonna use Flash, at least get some photos of ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Church: First UMC - Mt. Ephraim, NJ
URL: http://www.njfaith.com/
Note: At the webmaster's request, this is a follow-up to a review I did for this website back in January, 2007.
Initial thoughts
Since my previous review, the site has gotten a complete facelift. I thought the old design was pretty good, but this ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Church: First UMC - Elgin, IL
URL: http://gbgmchurches.gbgm-umc.org/fumcelgin/
Initial thoughts
For some reason, the first thing I noticed on this site was the nice, clean list of links down the left side. That's not a bad thing. However, part of the reason I noticed that was because the images were ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Church: Faith UMC - Saint Charles, MO
URL: http://www.faithumcstcharles.com/
Initial thoughts
The first thing I see on the front page is your building. Please don't do that. Other than that, the front page is pretty good. The contact info it easy to find, the worship info is easy find, and ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Church: Hillsdale UMC - Hillsdale, NJ
URL: http://www.gbgm-umc.org/hillsdale-umc/
Initial thoughts
Oddly enough, my first thought when viewing this site was "what's up with the text in their header?". It appears that you compressed the header jpg just a bit too much, as the letters are all surrounded by artifacts. I ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Church: Whorton Bend UMC - Gadsden, AL
URL: http://www.wbumc.com/
Initial thoughts
My first thought was "hey, what a slick looking site". Really, it does look very nice. However, my second thought was "didn't we use that cheesy animated Cross and Flame on our youth site in 1999?". Seriously, I think we did.
Also, ...
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