Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design.
The misguided notion that somehow more is always better.
Main Entry: Feature Creep
Pronunciation: \ˈfē-chər ˈkrēp\
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English feture crepen, from the act of over-building something
Date: July 24, 2009
Remember folks, flee from temptation to ‘gizmo’ up your site.
Instead, focus on workflow – that is the things your users want/need to do/learn from visiting your [...]
I want comments on the following question: what actually heals your church website? Is it using WordPress over Joomla? Is it adding a Twitter widget to your sidebar? Or is it adding more spinning animated gifs of gold lamé crosses? I want your input – so leave a comment.
For what will it profit a man if his church website is the slickest in the Internet if he has to forfeit a month’s collections just to change the welcome message? If you haven’t guessed by the play on Matthew 16:26 (&/or Mark 8:36, &/or Luke 9:25), or the somewhat wordy “bad church web design poster #006,” the topic of today’s “sermonette” is website maintenance.
