Making a Ready Defense by Planning for Failure
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bad Design Posters, How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. While this aphorism is very worn, it is also very true. Here are some simple things you can do with mysqldump, crontab, tar/gzip and a little contingency planning to insure you don't ...
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 ...
How to quickly check your error logs for oddities
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | 2 Comments »With more church webmasters taking advantage of free, one-click installs (e.g. WordPress, Drupal, etc ...) provided by inexpensive web hosting solutions, I figure it is time to provide a quick tutorial on how to harvest useful operational, user and security ...
3 column tableless layouts not so hard with the YUI CSS Grids Builder
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | No Comments »Multiple column, table-less layouts using CSS isn't so hard the CSS Grids Builder tool provided as part of the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. Just enter the number of columns, the widths and positions, and presto - a very small ...
10 ways WordPress 2.5 will help you manage your church blog
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Disruptive Innovation, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Though still under development, the upcoming release of WordPress 2.5 is already receiving some very positive reviews. One in particular I'd like to share with you from a church-blogging perspective is entitled '10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress ...
How to secure your church’s dedicated Linux server
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »This post is dedicated to all of you running your church’s website in the choir robe closet, or who have been graced with a generous and geeky member who has taken advantage of one of those cheap, unmanaged dedicated server ...
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 ...
The mother of all CSS menu lists, tutorials and generators
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Code-Snippets, How-To, Resource Filled | 2 Comments »Below is a semi-definitive list of CSS menu lists, CSS menu tutorials, and CSS menu generator web sites. This mother-of-all CSS navigation menu bookmarks post is here in part for your consumption, but also so I have a single convenient ...
5 Things WordPress 2.3 Brings to your Church Web Site Design
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 Posted in Fast Five, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »In case you haven't heard, there's a new WordPress in town and his name is "Dexter!" A.k.a. version 2.3, this major release comes with five features every church and/or charity web master can't do without. Here they are in no ...
Dean recommends the Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server
Sunday, August 19th, 2007 Posted in How-To, Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Weekend projects included: finalize kitchen tile job, mulch garden beds, and set-up a second Netgear WGPS606 Wireless Print Server connecting the upstairs printers with the downstairs computers, and visa versa. Moreover my work laptop can now print to both ...
Remember the Milk: To-do list management made easy
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in Resource Filled | 1 Comment »From a nursery volunteer to mega-church minister, one thing is for sure: charitable work is never done. And while no software will replace the human factor, those burdened with feet of clay can trip less often if equipped ...
Send expensive software a-packin’ with Google Pack!
Monday, August 6th, 2007 Posted in Resource Filled | 1 Comment »Your nuts - and worse, potentially a poor steward, IF your church is still spending money on security, anti-spam, word processing and other typical office-like applications. Then again, that's better than being a ...
