Comments on: Time to re-factor my categories http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/05/07/time-to-re-factor-my-categories/ Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:14:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: jon http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/05/07/time-to-re-factor-my-categories/comment-page-1/#comment-3689 jon Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:27:21 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/05/07/time-to-re-factor-my-categories/#comment-3689 Actually, having church-speak categories isn't necessarily a sin: if you go back and read Nielsen et al, you'll realise that your website needs to talk to the people you're targeting - and the target audience for HYCW is different to the target audience for church websites. Most church websites target mostly non-church people. But HYCW targets people building church websites, so church-speak isn't necessarily bad. Just keep thinking about who is using your site and what they want to know, and you'll be mostly ok. jon Actually, having church-speak categories isn’t necessarily a sin: if you go back and read Nielsen et al, you’ll realise that your website needs to talk to the people you’re targeting – and the target audience for HYCW is different to the target audience for church websites. Most church websites target mostly non-church people. But HYCW targets people building church websites, so church-speak isn’t necessarily bad.

Just keep thinking about who is using your site and what they want to know, and you’ll be mostly ok.

jon

]]> By: salguod http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/05/07/time-to-re-factor-my-categories/comment-page-1/#comment-3112 salguod Mon, 07 May 2007 16:52:49 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2007/05/07/time-to-re-factor-my-categories/#comment-3112 This is good news, I have never understood your category titles. (Sorry.) :-P A couple of suggestions: - How about 'Useful Links' instead of 'Useful URLs'. Some folks that end up here might not know what a URL is, but a link is pretty well known. - I don't understand the difference between 'useful URLs' and 'Reading Room'. Reading Room to me sounds more like your own articles rather than 'single articles elsewhere on the Internet', which would be, uh, links. - How about rather than 'Jesus Wept', you follow in the theme of 'Needs Healing' and call it 'Needs Resurrection' or 'Needs CPR' or something similar? That would tie the two similar categories together and avoid the obscure but snarky title that will leave readers going huh? There you go, you asked for it! :-D This is good news, I have never understood your category titles. (Sorry.) :-P

A couple of suggestions:

- How about ‘Useful Links’ instead of ‘Useful URLs’. Some folks that end up here might not know what a URL is, but a link is pretty well known.

- I don’t understand the difference between ‘useful URLs’ and ‘Reading Room’. Reading Room to me sounds more like your own articles rather than ’single articles elsewhere on the Internet’, which would be, uh, links.

- How about rather than ‘Jesus Wept’, you follow in the theme of ‘Needs Healing’ and call it ‘Needs Resurrection’ or ‘Needs CPR’ or something similar? That would tie the two similar categories together and avoid the obscure but snarky title that will leave readers going huh?

There you go, you asked for it! :-D

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