Jakob Nielsen: Four Bad Designs and a 403 error to boot!
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room | 2 Comments »What could be more ironic than to receive an email from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox on the topic of "Bad content, bad links, bad navigation, bad category pages" that links to a page that throws a 403, permission access denied page?-) ...
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 ...
Is your church website little more than brochureware?
Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Conversion Goals | 2 Comments »The WikiPedia defines brochureware as: "A brochureware website is a business website that has very infrequently updated content, and little of it. Often the site has been developed as a direct translation of existing printed promotional materials, hence the name." Note ...
Top 10 Church Website Design Mistakes of 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, How-To | 8 Comments »It is the last day of 2007, so like every great media outlet I figured why not go through the archives and come up with a list of those topics that produced the deepest and most memorable mental scars. Below ...
How categorizing information enhances church website conversion goals
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, How-To | 1 Comment »Not everyone enters your church through the front door, neither does everyone first visit your organization's website comes via your carefully crafted home page. The question is, once these search-engine driven seekers find your site through such pages, are they ...
Crossing Church’s Maddening Moving Mystery Meat
Friday, November 16th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Fast Five | 2 Comments »NOTICE: to all graphic designers doubling as web masters - your church's website ain't a stinking art project. If it were, then there would be no need to worry about such mundane things as conversion goals, usability, and accessibility - ...
A good example of why online video trumps audio podcasts
Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Disruptive Innovation | 5 Comments »With a show of hands, who here would rather listen to me podcast my upcoming visit Petra? How many would rather see the Temple of Hercules as online video at blogJordan.com? I asked my 7 year-old daughter that ...
10 Things an Effective Church Website can do for You
Monday, October 8th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Theology | 3 Comments »As I peruse the great cloud of witlessness that is the Body online, I find one of the primary problems afflicting many sites is vision. That is I often find those responsible for delivering the goods don't really ...
5 Reasons You Need to Add digital.leadnet.org to Your Aggregator - NOW!
Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room | No Comments »Have you heard the one about the new mob-blog for church leaders and webmasters? No, it's no joke - rather digital.leadnet.org is an extension of the Leadership Network dedicated to 'using technology to multiply the church's impact.' And if that description ...
Pastors and graphic artists listen up: your user isn’t you
Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Fast Five | 8 Comments »Unless you're writing a church website for a bunch of blogging pastors, frustrated graphic artists and/or "... burned out computer geeks, your user isn't you. ... This is very hard to get through somebody's head; it's very hard to get ...
5 tips for blogging sermons effectively
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Fast Five | 4 Comments »Just publishing your sermon notes to your church's blog is not enough - not if you want anyone to actually read them. Here are five simple things you can do to make your sermon notes more visible to more readers ...
How to (really) embed Google Maps on your church website
Monday, August 27th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, How-To | 5 Comments »I think it is safe to assume that getting people into the pews is a conversion goal most, if not all church websites share. But how are guests going to eat all the donuts and sleep through the ...
