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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Posts under ‘Proverbs 19:25’
I cut you man! 5 things we can learn from the Microtech Knives website.
Politically active on your church website? Kiss your tax exemption goodbye!
In case you didn’t know, since 1954 there has been a federal ban on political activity for tax exempt, 501(c)(3) organizations such as charities and churches. A lesson Atlah World Ministries may be learning the hard way when this past February, pastor James David Manning stood in the pulpit of his little church on 123rd [...]
Bible Jim – hiding His light under a virtual basket
It never ceases to amaze me how as a Body of individuals whom collectively and voluntarily ascribe just about every other aspect of our lives to a set of well-defined tenants and standards, that we are so hard-headed when it comes to the methods we use to present our online ministries along the same lines. Case in point: BibleJim.com.
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.
Riot at Ephesus Revolution: art project or effective web site?
I’ve always liked ChurchMarketingSucks.com – which is why I leapt at an opportunity afforded by one of their interns when they asked for assistance reviewing a new church/community web site in a blog post yesterday. I like to classify such sites as “too cool for school.”
APlus Web Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Web Design and Fertilizer
Just a while ago, I got a mangled voice-mail message from someone named Jillian at APlus Web Hosting, Dedicated Hosting and Web Design. Well actually, all I got was Jilian at APlus, everything past that was messed-up. Fortunately (I’ll explain why in a minute) I was away from my desk in the test lab, performing [...]
How to use DIV tags for Layout instead of Tables
Its not that Im an anti-table zealot, rather I prefer to discourage the use of tables for simple issues of laying content side-by-side. For example, there are times you need to render stuff in parallel (that’s side-by-side for those of you in Rio Linda). In the past, you created a table then chalk-n-hug everything into [...]
Religion is a ‘Chruch’
We all know know at least one atheist, agnostic or skeptic who boldly (and often blindly) asserts religion is a crutch. Much in part due to the overbearing legalism and spiritual abuse that goes on in a minority of cases.
That said, I it is my prayer that the Church on the whole prove these individuals [...]
the Gospel, according to RSS and/or Atom
UPDATE 1:45pm
Okay, I just now figured out what David Winer was referring to over at scripting when he mentioned “funky RSS” while discussing my efforts here. SO, here is the “not as funky” version of my proposed RSS 2.0 for the IBS. It’s still a bit funky because it still extends with the alternate links, [...]
DailyManna 1.0 using XML::Simple
Tired of screen-scraping your Daily Verse? Can’t wait to use XML instead? Well wait no longer as the good folks over at the International Bible Society recently began rendering their Daily Manna in a yummy variety of XML formats.
Unfortunately, they tried fitting a square peg into a round whole by delivering the goods using dated [...]
The Advantage of Logging Search Queries
Back in June, when I laid healing hands on the Redland Baptist web site, I used MovableType because it could be easily customized to work like a Content Management System, yet still retain its blogging capabilities. I did this because I wanted a system where I didn’t have to go through a bunch of flaming [...]
The Perfect 404
Fatigue, typing too fast, dyslexia, crumbs in the keyboard and bad handwriting are just some of the causes that come to mind that might put your users on the wrong end of a 404 page. I’ve even known a case or two where a typo or programming error on my part has caused a user [...]
