I’m getting very excited about the upcoming Word Camp Raleigh … just so long as we don’t get so focused on premium themes, theme frameworks and plugins at the expense of discussing how-to develop a sensible information architecture that suites the goals of your church and/or charity.
Posts under ‘Bad Design Posters’
Bad idea design poster #10 – Feature Creep
The misguided notion that somehow more is always better.
Main Entry: Feature Creep
Pronunciation: \ˈfē-chər ˈkrēp\
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English feture crepen, from the act of over-building something
Date: December 24, 2009
Remember folks, flee from temptation to ‘gizmo’ up your site.
Instead, focus on workflow – that is the things your users want/need to do/learn from visiting your [...]
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 5 – Speak Clearly
Even if you haven’t read the latest writings of Steve Krug, Jakob Nielsen or Luke Wroblewski, it doesn’t take a ‘Jesus Christ Rubber Duck’ to understand that church speak and clique-chat only help relegate your site into the realms search engine obscurity.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 4 – Unreadable at 11:23
If conversion rates are the metric by which we measure successful web page adoption, then the antithesis of that is product abandonment. Today’s example shows how something as intuitive as a wall clock was made unreadable at 11:23.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 3 – Avoid Wipeouts
Nothing says “wipe-out” like a cheap little Holy Bible eraser. And nothing spells disaster like having all your valuable data turn into techno-mush. Here’s some tips to avoid this.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 2 – Think Globally!
As once again the TSA reminds us that Christmas Snow Globes a threat to National Security, I thought it might be a good time to talk about the wide-World of bad-guys and some simple things you can do to guard your site from a potentially explosive situation.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 1 – Hallway Testing
Learn how to cheaply and quickly avoid ‘accidental-message-myopia’ syndrome – like inadvertently creating a design that asserts an Aryan baby Jesus.
Is Church marketing dead? Nope, just stuck on stupid!
There’s no getting around it, despite the efforts of many to teach, rebuke, correct & train in righteous web design, there still exists a great cloud of witlessness when it comes to the Church’s presence online. A fact painfully corroborated by the persistent body of ‘kitsch‘ out there that distracts, annoys and otherwise drives-away people seeking and/or serving the Lord.
