Comments on: What church webmasters can learn from a bunch of dumb dairy cows http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: darkyoda http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 darkyoda Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:32:59 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/#comment-2926 Dean I wanted to contact you and see if you might have time/be interested in doing work on a new church site for us. http://grace-fellowship.us I couldn't find anyway to email you on the site so hopefully this works. Thanks Ken Dean I wanted to contact you and see if you might have time/be interested in doing work on a new church site for us.

http://grace-fellowship.us

I couldn’t find anyway to email you on the site so hopefully this works.

Thanks

Ken

]]> By: stubbyd http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 stubbyd Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:23:23 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/#comment-2844 I agree 100% with your views on clean, crisp websites. Sometimes words have to take precedence but the text should be interesting enough to hold the viewers attention. But I have two questions for you and your vistors. 1. What sites (Church based preferably) do you consider to be well desgined? 2. How does one go about identifying what teh front page should contain so that a visitor can "immediately figure out what your church is about in about 8 to 12 seconds online on a Friday night" ? I agree 100% with your views on clean, crisp websites.

Sometimes words have to take precedence but the text should be interesting enough to hold the viewers attention. But I have two questions for you and your vistors.

1. What sites (Church based preferably) do you consider to be well desgined?

2. How does one go about identifying what teh front page should contain so that a visitor can “immediately figure out what your church is about in about 8 to 12 seconds online on a Friday night” ?

]]> By: two7s_clash http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-2827 two7s_clash Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:39:01 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/#comment-2827 Any suggestions for a group or board where I can get troubleshooting help on my church website? I'm really rusty with web design, but our church's site is the worst... and the folks online I've ask for help thus far aren't too patient with someone so far behind the curve... I'll post my specific question here just in case you have time to take a look: http://www.christchurchinfo.net The site displays nicely in Firefox/Mozilla and Safari, but the stained glass windows navigation portion is getting pushed down in IE, and the "news" box is appearing over top of it. I would much appreciate any pointers... I just don't really understand all the IE layout hacks yet, as old hat as they may be... Of lesser worry is that the text in the left nav bar is cut off on hover, and that none of my background images as defined in the css are showing up... Thanks for any help you can provide! Any suggestions for a group or board where I can get troubleshooting help on my church website?

I’m really rusty with web design, but our church’s site is the worst… and the folks online I’ve ask for help thus far aren’t too patient with someone so far behind the curve…

I’ll post my specific question here just in case you have time to take a look:

http://www.christchurchinfo.net

The site displays nicely in Firefox/Mozilla and Safari, but the stained
glass windows navigation portion is getting pushed down in IE, and the
“news” box is appearing over top of it. I would much appreciate any
pointers… I just don’t really understand all the IE layout hacks
yet, as old hat as they may be…

Of lesser worry is that the text in the left nav bar is cut off on
hover, and that none of my background images as defined in the css are
showing up…

Thanks for any help you can provide!

]]> By: micah1701 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/comment-page-1/#comment-2825 micah1701 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:33:43 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2006/10/27/what-church-webmasters-can-learn-from-a-bunch-of-dumb-dairy-cows/#comment-2825 I think your point is valid. Clean, simple design makes viewing the site easier. The only problem, from a developer position, is obtaining those pictures that are worth a thousand words. Getting picutres that don't look like they were taken by a youth group member with their disposable "digital" camera can be next to impossable. And I have no problem with using stock images, but when you have a small congregation of just a couple hundres members, its not all that convincing when no one recognizes anyone in the picutes. Any idea? I think your point is valid. Clean, simple design makes viewing the site easier. The only problem, from a developer position, is obtaining those pictures that are worth a thousand words.

Getting picutres that don’t look like they were taken by a youth group member with their disposable “digital” camera can be next to impossable. And I have no problem with using stock images, but when you have a small congregation of just a couple hundres members, its not all that convincing when no one recognizes anyone in the picutes.

Any idea?

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