If conversion rates are the metric by which we measure successful web page adoption, then the antithesis of that is product abandonment. Today’s example shows how something as intuitive as a wall clock was made unreadable at 11:23.
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus Junk’
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 2 – Think Globally!
As once again the TSA reminds us that Christmas Snow Globes a threat to National Security, I thought it might be a good time to talk about the wide-World of bad-guys and some simple things you can do to guard your site from a potentially explosive situation.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 1 – Hallway Testing
Learn how to cheaply and quickly avoid ‘accidental-message-myopia’ syndrome – like inadvertently creating a design that asserts an Aryan baby Jesus.
A celebration of cruft, the king of kitsch ministries.
The WikiPedia defines ‘cruft’ is computing jargon for code, data, or software of poor quality and ‘kitsch’ as art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an existing style. The Celebrations Of The King Ministries in Loma Linda, CA provides a website that is both. The only real question being, what % is kitsch, and what % is cruft – as the design of the this church website seems to take its queue from the Hamster Dance school of design, circa 1998.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 12 – Santa with Baby Jesus Nativity(ies)
12 Santa with Jesus figurines. A confusing little mix of Madison Avenue imagery with legal historic details is an excellent object lesson in why we need to be careful about semantics in a different light: semantic HTML.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 11 – Happy Birthday Jesus Tattoos
Yes folks, everyone knows your kids will be different like everyone else wearing their “Happy Birthday Jesus” tattoos. They also serve as a perfect object lesson on 11 blogging mistakes pastors & laypersons make when they leave nothing but a world of markup, rather than a mark on the world.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 10 – Moses Action Figure
On the 10th day of kitschmas my webmaster threw down on me – 10 Moses Action Figures (all clutching tablets of the 10 commandments in their patented kung-fu grip!). The perfect reminder to remember 10 Commandments of Church Website Search Engine Optimization.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 7 – Walking With Jesus Playing Cards
On the 7th day of Jesus Junk my webmaster equipped me with everything I needed to take a good beating during a youth ministry Texas Hold’em lock in with a pack of Walking With Jesus’ Playing Cards. And speaking of betting the house, let’s complain a bit about all Flash websites – as like gambling, it seems there are quite a few church webmaster addicted to this plugin.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 6 – Jesus Saves Goose Leg Bands
How you convey your church or charity’s message is as important as what you say. Case in point, the Christmas Kitsch otherwise known as the ‘unique “Jesus Saves” goose leg band’ … available on E-Bay for $12.99! Compare this ill-gotten approach with your church website conversion goals.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 5 – Jesus Pencil Toppers
On the 5th day of kitschmas my webmaster was struck down by G*d. Why? How about the idolatry (or blasphemy) known as “Jesus Pencil Toppers” and the faux navigation they objectify.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 4 – Jesus Loves me Kazoos
On the 4th day of Christmas my webmaster brought to me, four neon colored kazoos! Yes folks, even if your singing sounds like an injured cat in a trash can, you can still harmonize with that “Mitt Romney sings your Favorite Carols with the Mormon Tabernacle” album your great aunt bought you back in 1987 when you’re equipped with one of these cheap, plastic “Jesus Loves me kazoos” pictured to the right:
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 3 – Inflatable Nativity
On the 3rd day of Christmas my webmaster gave to me, three inflatable nativities. Yes folks, nothing bring to life the miraculous birth of our Savior like some pudgy latex airbag glowing in front of your house at night. Which brings me to my topic of image bloat …
