December 17, 2009
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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. Continue reading
December 15, 2009
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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. Continue reading
December 14, 2009
by meandean
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Learn how to cheaply and quickly avoid ‘accidental-message-myopia’ syndrome – like inadvertently creating a design that asserts an Aryan baby Jesus. Continue reading
August 27, 2008
by meandean
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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. Continue reading
December 26, 2007
by meandean
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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. Continue reading
December 24, 2007
by meandean
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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. Continue reading
December 23, 2007
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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.
December 20, 2007
by meandean
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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. Continue reading