IconFinder v. IconLet: battle of the icon search engine
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Links, Reading Room | 7 Comments »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: ...
Submissive Volunteerism versus Spiritual Abuse
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 5 Comments »Jesus defined the elements of volunteerism in Mark 10:42-43 and Matthew 23:8. There is only one Master, the rest of us are servants of whom the least will be the greatest. Problem is, when it comes to highly ...
Volunteerism and the Robert E. Peary Class of 1977 Reunion
Friday, August 10th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 11 Comments »This weekend the Robert E. Peary High School Class of 1977 will hold its 30th year reunion. Whatever comes of the events, one notable failure will be the lack of a strong and effective online presence similar to ...
Kittens Could Solve Spam?
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | No Comments »Cat bloggers unite! And when you do, don't forget I stepped around you instead of kickin' ya! Why? Well because it seems that them cute fuzzy pictures you've been annoying the rest of us with may be the key ...
more Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 2 Comments »Web design sins are generally the product of inexperience. And as experienced sinners, we'd like to help you avoid these deadly mistakes - some that we've made, and others that we see every day. Pride Here's a Web design ...
How church website design documentation (doesn’t) get done
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 3 Comments »At some point, some savvy steward in a church raises the question "What happens if our all-knowing, über church web design geek leaves? We should have them teach us how it works." At which point even more hilarity ensues as the following ...
Google Analytics: down again, for 2 days, now back up
Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Reading Room | 3 Comments »Looks like Google Analytics is down again - starting sometime late on Saturday, June 28. And once again once again, no word from the Google Analytics blog (this has changed, see update below) I suspect there's more ...
Craigslist Down proves the need to plan for failure
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in How-To, Reading Room | 3 Comments »What does the PG&E induced craigslist outage have to do with your church or charity website? How about a reminder of the tired but true adage that reads 'Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.' Specifically using mysqldump, crontab ...
Simpsonized Server Unavailable - an unsuccessful lesson in success
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five, Reading Room | No Comments »Late last week, several national newspapers and e-zines published several stories about a silly little promotion for an upcoming, onscreen 'Homeric' tale : SimpsonizeMe.com. Unfortunately those coming late to the party may have to wait a bit as the ...
Jakob Nielsen: written articles v. blog postings
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Conversion Goals, Reading Room, Theology | No Comments »Usability expert Jakob Nielsen betrays his 1997 post entitled 'how people read the web' with his most recent article entitled 'Write Articles, Not Blog Postings.' That is, instead offering scannable content to a community of aggregators, the good Doctor suggests ...
How to test your site across multiple browsers
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 Posted in Reading Room, Theology | 8 Comments »Before you write a single line of HTML, before you render curved menu tabs using CSS, before you Flashinate your users with slideshows ... remember one thing: unless you're designing a church website for a bunch of over-clocked, Mac-inspired, graphic ...
How to go mental with online mind mapping software
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Reading Room, Resource Filled | 7 Comments »Mind mapping is defined is a diagramming process which includes a central key idea, task or words, radially surrounded by child or peer ideas, tasks or words. In the end, you wind up with a octopus-like picture of a mind-dump. ...
