May 12, 2008
by meandean
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Those putting off the purchasing and/or long-term renewal of a domain name for their church and/or charity because the price was too high may want to re-think that strategy as it appears that the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for ‘.org’ domain names, will be raising their annual wholesale price for ‘.org’ domains by 10%. Continue reading
May 1, 2008
by meandean
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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 with high conversion rates.
April 21, 2008
by meandean
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Steve Ballmer says Vista is a work in progress. With that in mind, and if my office, contact management, presentation, web administration, and other applications are all web-based, then what is the value proposition of sticking it out with Microsoft’s expensive work in progress, versus a more cost effective work in progress such as Ubuntu? Continue reading
April 14, 2008
by meandean
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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?-) Fortunately for you, I got screenshots, followed by some commentary on the article once the good folks at UseIt.com realized the error or their ways. Continue reading
February 2, 2008
by meandean
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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 results from the field – just like some of your image lighting sources. Continue reading
January 28, 2008
by meandean
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‘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 … here’s what you can do to prevent your church or charity from suffering a similar fate. Continue reading
December 12, 2007
by meandean
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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 attention they so richly deserve. Continue reading
October 18, 2007
by meandean
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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 whom seem to think gold lamé and velvet red are the palette of the day. Continue reading