Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively.
Posts under ‘Proverbs 13:13’
I cut you man! 5 things we can learn from the Microtech Knives website.
I cut you man! Seriously, it’s rare that I review a non-church nor charity website, but this site was so chock full of great lessons in what not to do on your church and/or charity website, I couldn’t help myself.
The basic message today being: don’t let fear of copyright violations drive your website design.
Site review
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A celebration of cruft, the king of kitsch ministries.
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.
Does bad theology induce bad church website design?
Is it just me, or is there a correlation between flimsy theology and flaky web design? Seriously, having reviewed hundreds of sites after sifting through thousands since May of 2002, I have to believe there is some linkage between bad theology and worse web designs.
No promiscuous text found at Scottsdale Christian Church
If I had to say one thing nice about the website for the Scottsdale Christian Church (SCC) of Scottsdale Arizona, it would be that it is devoid of the ‘promiscuous text’ found on some other sites that publish entire novellas on their front page explaining in their best church speak why all babies must eat. Of course upona closer inspection of the SCC website, one discovers that there is actually NO text on – making it almost impossible for anyone ‘Googling’ for a church just off route 101 near Eldorado Park.
Holy Mystery Meat (Navigation)!
I have no problem with icons, neither in churches nor on web pages, but of the latter: unless your navigational images are immediately and unquestionably recognizable by anyone and everyone in every context, then what you wind up cooking-up for your visitors is a heaping pile of MysteryMeat Navigation …
How Flashinating – Creative Kids Ministry
It’s not that I hate Flash, I just hate how often it is misapplied to and/or incorrectly implemented on church, charity and lay ministry websites. Case in point, Aaron Reynods’ Creative Kids Ministry.
Which College Park, Church?
The locale ‘College Park’ holds an entirely different meaning to different people depending on where they live in the US, Canada or Austrailia – which is all the more reasons your Church’s title tag for its homepage should include the city and/or state (or province) in which your church is located …
