5 Things Eight Belles and Church Webmasters have in common
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five, Theology | No Comments »Last night while listening to various speculations as why the horse that 'placed' at the Kentucky Derby was put down, my mind drifted to 5 things Eight Belles has in common with many church webmasters I know, including: Both endure ...
5 things the Holy See website could do with the Pope’s visit to the U.S. and UN
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five | No Comments »I realize, understand, and respect the Catholic tenant that their faith is built upon a combination of Scripture and historic tradition. That said, there's no reason the Vatican website should continue to ineffectively rock like it'1999. With that in mind, ...
Fundy-mental 5: Faith Baptist Church, Dayton, OH
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five | 2 Comments »What is it with fundamental, KJV only, pre-millennial, independent Baptist churches and web design that wants to party like it's 1999? Case in point, the website for the Faith Baptist Church of Dayton Ohio. I've said this a couple times before, ...
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 ...
5 non-technical reasons your church or charity needs to consider using Google Aps
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Fast Five | No Comments »Microsoft Office doesn't just cost you $139 per user, it also costs you in money and man-hours required to manage keeping the various products up-to-date, secured, and backed-up on computer hardware that often requires additional disk and/or RAM with each ...
5 Comments on Google, Tammy Faye, WIFI Security, Spiritual Abuse and Flashination
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five | No Comments »Here are 5 comments from visitors that I think are worth restating in a post as they each address larger issues facing many of us who design, develop, deploy and maintain church and/or charity websites. The format will be a ...
5 lessons we can learn from the Steven E. Hutchins Architects data sabotage
Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five, Reading Room | 1 Comment »'Angry Employee Deletes All of Company's Data' is how the headline read last week describing an alleged incident of data sabotage where an employee, erroneously thinking a help wanted ad in the paper by her employer was describing her job, ...
When web page creation tools and novice church website design collide
Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Fast Five | 4 Comments »One of the good things about the Web in 2008 is the number of free and easy web page creation tools to aid those novices involved in church website design. One of the bad things about the Web in 2008 ...
LifeQuest Church - a real turkey of a web site
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five | 3 Comments »Cute is a description I usually reserve for my 8 year old daughter - not a church website. Yet 'cute but no cigar' is the mangled metaphor that came to mind when I saw the turkey that is the church ...
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 - ...
10 things we can learn from the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies website
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five | 3 Comments »What does it profit a charity to have the coolest web site design of all time if it can't be found via a simple, context-related search on Google or Yahoo? Such is the case of today's example: the Royal Institute ...
New Page 1 v. 1st Presbyterian, Natchitoches, LA
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five | 4 Comments »Okay, in a fair fight between search engine inquiries - which <title> tag do you think wins? First Presbyterian Church, Natchitoches, Louisiana - or - New Page 1? Well of course the full church name, with denomination and location wins, unless ...
