The WikiPedia defines ‘cruft’ is computing jargon for code, data, or software of poor quality and ‘kitsch’ as art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an existing style. The Celebrations Of The King Ministries in Loma Linda, CA provides a website that is both. The only real question being, what % is kitsch, and what % is cruft – as the design of the this church website seems to take its queue from the Hamster Dance school of design, circa 1998.
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FREE WordPress theme for churches
Tim Bednar is offering a free theme for WordPress that makes building, customizing and maintaining a ministry, para-church, nonprofit, political or small business web sites as easy as cake.
IconFinder v. IconLet: battle of the icon search engine
IconFinder and IconLet are two icon search engines, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this post I provide a simple comparison of both based upon features, ease-of-use, search results and image quality:
Everything I didn’t know about the Technorati do-over
So I see as one of my incoming referrer links s.technorati.com – I hadn’t seen that before, but I know about technorati so I figured it was safe to visit. Here’s what I didn’t know …
CSS and round corners: Making accessible menu tabs
“One of the best websites out there, in terms of functionality, is, Amazon1. In terms of accessibility though, it’s not too great … Amazon’s menu tabs with their nice round corners, for example, look really nice but are rather inaccessible …” – Webcredible, August 2004
A not so-definitive list of mostly free stock photo sites
Perhaps it is my Eastern Orthodox roots showing, but nothing turns me off faster to a church whose place of worship looks and feels cheap with the exception of a church web site whose web presence also fails to ‘break a vase’ on behalf of the Lord of all. Hence, I enumerate some not-so-mediocre alternatives …
Online RGB to HEX to RGB Color Code Converter
In creating your website it can be very useful to know the hexadecimal values of RGB colors and vice versa. For instance if you need to match a graphics color to your background value all you’d need to do is find out the RGB value of the graphic in your graphics program and convert it [...]
One useful wiki: the C# Online.NET Encyclopedia
Some developer online resources are more equal than others. This meme is all the truer if you’re a C# coder – as sometimes it is hard to sift out the useful programmer wheat from the not-so-useful propaganda chaff that eminates from various corporate mouthpieces. One of the more useful resources I’ve recently found is Online.NET’s [...]
Code-sucks.com (but not nearly as bad as FrontPage)
Let’s face it, if multi-column, cross-browser, CSS-driven layouts were easy, then everyone would be doing it … well, perhaps with the exception of those stilll wandering in the wilderness of the past with FrontPage.
Code-Sucks.com is a resource for web designers and web developers that makes it quite a bit easier to create tableless layouts that [...]
Mother of all online converters listing
“Online converters always come in handy. Once you need to perform some operation with your files, they can save your time achieving the same results online, without installing some specific software. This overview of online-converters for users and developers might give you some useful starting points and improve your productivity.”
The above quote is from a [...]
HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard
Though I’ve been an advocate of tabeless layout for some time now, sometimes I’m mistaken for some type of anti-table zealot, looking to go all ‘Masda Incident‘ whenever I encounter any implementation of table taggery.
Folks, let me assure you, nothing could be further from the truth. Tables do have their value to me – as [...]
Mother of all CSS Rounded Corners Roundups
Curvaceous corners on a church web site?! Is that permissible? Is that even possible? Well yes to both – as today we enjoy sharing a link that has all the yumminess of chocolate ice cream without the remorse code maintenance that comes with it!
