10 Principles Of Good Church Website Design
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Reading Room, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Want to make sure your church website follows the principles of good church website design? Then stop coding that rotating Flash banner you think is cook and start learning how user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful websites ...
Vista vs. Ubuntu and the value proposition of a work in progress
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room | 3 Comments »Last Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer created a virtual firestorm when he said the following about the much maligned Vista operating system: Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] A very important piece of work, and I think we did ...
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?-) ...
Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil vs. Staten Island Chuck, you decide!
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Reading Room | 1 Comment »Well folks, it' Groundhog day and the results are in. Now I don't mean to start a controversy ... ah who am I kidding ... of course I am. Okay, true confessions aside, it appears we have conflicting GroundHog Day ...
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, ...
Wanted: will trade free hosting for server administration
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Reading Room | No Comments »Pwn is a slang term that implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent that has just been soundly defeated. Past tense is sometimes spelled pwnt (pronounced with a t ...
8 more love notes from my mailbag - mostly great questions
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 4 Comments »Now I know how Santa feels - as my mailbox is getting stuffed with comments, questions and yes, a few complaints. So "once more into the breach" ... answering excellent questions, re-posting useful commentary, and responding to spammers with the ...
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Resource Filled | No Comments »da Vinci, Picasso, Dali, Monet, van Gogh. what do these five artists have in common? Judicious use of color for one thing. Something I've seen often overlooked in a number of church and charity websites - more than one ...
PayPal goes down while PayPal labs goes up?
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 1 Comment »I don't use PayPal much, but I do have the reasonable expectation of it being up at around 11 AM Eastern on a Friday afternoon. Especially during the same week said vendor has been hammering the press machine with their ...
5 Reasons to wait-n-see if Microsoft’s Office Live survives
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room | 2 Comments »Working for a company whose CEO once described it as 'the poster child for Software as a Service,' it should be no surprise that I'm taking a 'wait and see' approach to Microsoft's entry into their 'Software Plus Service' ...
A comparison of 6 common website navigation methods
Monday, October 1st, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | No Comments »Below is my take on a case study comparing 6 common navigational methods by the Usability Professionals Association including among them Rollover, Flash, and Flyout menus I often see ...
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 ...
