I’m getting very excited about the upcoming Word Camp Raleigh … just so long as we don’t get so focused on premium themes, theme frameworks and plugins at the expense of discussing how-to develop a sensible information architecture that suites the goals of your church and/or charity.
Posts Tagged ‘usability’
Bad idea design poster #10 – Feature Creep
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: December 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 [...]
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 5 – Speak Clearly
Even if you haven’t read the latest writings of Steve Krug, Jakob Nielsen or Luke Wroblewski, it doesn’t take a ‘Jesus Christ Rubber Duck’ to understand that church speak and clique-chat only help relegate your site into the realms search engine obscurity.
12 Days of Jesus Junk – Day 4 – Unreadable at 11:23
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.
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.
5 Things that heal your church website
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.
weekend open thread: What Heals your Church Website?
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.
