Is Church marketing dead? Nope, just stuck on stupid!
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, Theology | No Comments »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 ...
Making a Ready Defense by Planning for Failure
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. While this aphorism is very worn, it is also very true. Here are some simple things you can do with mysqldump, crontab, tar/gzip and a little contingency planning to insure you don't ...
How to avoid high maintenance church website design
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, How-To | 4 Comments »For what will it profit a man if his church website is the slickest in the Internet if he has to forfeit a month's collections just to change the welcome message? If you haven't guessed by the play on Matthew 16:26 ...
Inaccessible, that’s what you are
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, Conversion Goals, Fast Five | 2 Comments »I find too many church websites putting their best information out of reach. Hence the idea driving today's bad church web design poster is best sung to the tune of Nat King Cole's classic, "Unforgettable" followed by my usual pithy ...
Bad church web design poster 0004 - Mission Statements (suck)
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Bad Design Posters | 2 Comments »Programmer guru Joel Spolsky reminds us that usability tests often demonstrate that very few users read the words you put on screen. Couple this the fact that 1-in-3 users are un-churched, and I'd venture to say that Nielsen is right ...
Bad Church Website Design Poster #0003 - Pretentious
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 Posted in Bad Design Posters | No Comments »Nothing shouts at a potential visitor 'your time is NOT important to us' than making them have to wait for a pretentious Flash intro. Especially those renderings so gratuitous that they include a 'skip intro' link. Here's why: I think Vincent ...
Bad Church Website Design Poster #0002 - Kitsch Art
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Posted in Bad Design Posters | 3 Comments »Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German/Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. The term is also used more loosely in referring to any art that is pretentious ...
Bad Church Website Design Poster #0001 - Christian Bling
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 Posted in Bad Design Posters | 1 Comment »A new category for a new teaching toy - er, I mean tool: Bad Church Web Design Posters. Today's entry: "Christian Bling" - or - "Nothing says 'welcome to our church' like a 'pimped-up' splash page." Click on the small image to ...
