Online office suites are great, usually missing only one or two applications I need to enhance a presentation and/or document. That missing link sometimes being a paint or paintbrush tool such as Photoshop, Photo Impact and/or MS Paint. That’s okay because there is an emerging set of Software as a Service applications that are online, [...]
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Pastors and Lay Persons and BlackBerrys, Oh My!
With the debut of the now consolidated Google Mobile Apps for BlackBerry also arrives yet another reason why your church and/or charity should consider moving off the desktop and onto the web space. So what has this got to do with running your church and/or charity website? Glad you asked …
non-profit guides – grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations
Here’s a resource-filled website that may help your church, charity and/or lay-ministry garner some much needed funds: non-profit guides. This site hosts free Web-based grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations, charitable, educational, public organizations, and other community-minded groups.
As the site says:
If you are an individual or start-up organization, try our links to related Web sites to [...]
FREE WordPress theme for churches
Tim Bednar is offering a free theme for WordPress that makes building, customizing and maintaining a ministry, para-church, nonprofit, political or small business web sites as easy as cake.
Making a Ready Defense by Planning for Failure
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 lose your sanity when your server crashes upon the shoals of of virtual disaster.
10 Principles Of Good Church Website Design
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.
How to quickly check your error logs for oddities
With more church webmasters taking advantage of free, one-click installs 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 information the error logs using a variety of commands already at your disposal – free.
3 column tableless layouts not so hard with the YUI CSS Grids Builder
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 XHTML footprint driven by some rather clever formatting wrapped-up into a nicely compressed cascading style sheets is your for the taking … free!
10 ways WordPress 2.5 will help you manage your church blog
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 2.5′ by Aaron Brazell at TechSailor; who asserts that “this is a huge release.” Here are 10 reasons why I agree.
How to secure your church’s dedicated Linux server
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 deals advertised at places like WebHostingTalk:
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
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.
