This scenario sound familiar: your pastor nicely insists you publish his sermons online, but sends you his work in MS Word files that were converted via an old version of WordPerfect for Windows. Yeah, talk about cruft! Fortunately, I think Google may have an affordable and easy answer for all parties involved in this processing paradigm; it’s called Docs & Spreadsheets.
Posts under ‘Titus 2:7’
Why your cool church web site needs (the new) Google Analytics
Back in November of 2005, Google release Analytics, a high popular and free service to help you measure the effectiveness of your church web site. Yesterday, at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen announced a re-factored version of Google Analytics that is more accessible and easier to use; begging the question – why haven’t you plugged this service into your church or charity’s web presence?
Server Move Madness
The server move is next week – at which point I’ll discuss some of the gory details of how I move, which may help you move.
This will include making sure an older version of WordPress gets to a newer version without losing several year’s worth of posts – and a relatively new template I’m pleased [...]
What church webmasters can learn from a bunch of dumb dairy cows
Chewing on your cud on how to re-work your crufty old church website? Well, moo-ving along back into website reviews, I think it’s time to pony up and milk a good example for all its worth. Today’s prime cut being the website brought to you by America’s Dairy Farmers. Yeah, okay so I went a bit over the top with the bovine humor – but my simple point today is about clean, simple marketing sites that present a clean, simple message.
Software as a Service serving First Baptist Church of Frederick Maryland
The WikiPedia describes Software as a Service (SaaS) as:
“a model of software delivery where a company adopts specific activities that provide customers access to software alleviating that customer from the maintenance and daily technical operation and support of business and/or consumer software.”
In plain English, it means software providers offer web-native solutions instead of insisting that [...]
Why your Church needs a Privacy Statement
Tired of political groups filling up your U.S. snail mail box with letters to your 12 year old daughter? Irritated with self-employed church members spamming you with the latest gift-basket craze? If so, then perhaps your church is lacking a privacy statement to protect contact information you submitted to the church’s sunday school enrollment or pictoral directory.
Hand Fighting Referrer Spammers
The WikiPedia defines Referer spam as “a kind of search engine-targeted spam. The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referer url pointing to a spam-advertised site. Sites that publicize their referer statistics will then also link to the spammer’s site. This benefits the spammer because of the free link, and also [...]
find -perm 777 your first ssh security stop
Want to get hacked? It’s easy, just ‘chmod 777′ everything the next time you install a bbs or photo gallery application. Don’t want to get hacked? Read on and ‘find’ how hackers see, and exploit the unsecured areas of your system.
For those of you running online community applications such as phpBB, vBulletin, Coppermine Gallery, Mambo [...]
