What actually heals a church website? Here are 5 remedies I have to offer based on some of the many excellent comments in response to last Friday’s open comment post on the same topic.
Posts Tagged ‘maintenance’
5 Things Eight Belles and Church Webmasters have in common
Last night while listening to various speculations as why the horse that ‘placed’ at the Kentucky Derby was put down, my mind drifted to 5 things Eight Belles has in common with many church webmasters I know, including …
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.
Submissive Volunteerism versus Spiritual Abuse
Jesus defined volunteerism as only one Master, the rest servants where the least is the greatest. The problem arises in highly visible ministries where parties involved tend to forget that Christ is the Master, and being the least does not equate to being a door mat.
Volunteerism and the Robert E. Peary Class of 1977 Reunion
Why does web volunteerism fail? Take for example Peary High Class of 1977 reunion website, who in turning down the free services of a paid and published alumni, failed to implement a strong and effective web presence. The same is suffered by many church and charity websites, here’s why …
Note to Pastors: #1 – Why Website Maintenance Sucks
Why do the churches rage, why do the webmasters plan in vain, because the maintenance phase of any software system sucks.
Inspired by a number of the comments left here and there to Mike Boyink’s post “Church Webmasters – Stop Working for Free” and supported by my 20+ some years on software development it is increasingly [...]
Mike Boyink on the problem with free ice cream
Church Webmasters – Stop Working for Free!
Mike Boyink implores “church webmasters to stop giving it away for free.“. Like many others, has concluded the only reward for free ice cream is complaints about the flavors. Mike also asserts that this lack of perceived value on the part of pastors and staff leads to re-spinning of [...]
Mr. Zeldman meet Mike Boyink, one of ‘The New Samaritans’
During my short career as an opera singer in NYC, I lived by some hard and fast rules; one of these personal mandates being:
“Avoid singing for free, and under NO circumstances should you pay to sing.”
Why – that is why pass on some opportunities to “showcase” my talents merely because of money? Because it was [...]
