Just an FYI.
Stranger in a Strange Land is getting a massage today.
You may see some funny things if you visit the site throughout the day. We hope to be back refreshed and better than ever by the end of the day. Thanks for your patience.
Tag: website
Power your church/ministry website with WordPress
If you’re still behind the curve, remember it is 2007 and your church and ministry needs a website. Why not use WordPress or Blogger to power your site?
It’s as easy to use as blogging and with RSS already built in, visitors can always have the latest information delivered to their e-mail or RSS reader.
Seriously, it doesn’t get much easier.
And here are a few great themes to plug-in and get started with.
Delta Theme (as seen above)
Several other themes by the same designer
And here’s a great example of how you can really put WordPress to work: Missouri Valley Baptist
Or there’s also a sample site, Cory Miller did to show off how you can make a website with minimal effort and maintenance with Blogger.
Thanks to Cory Miller for the links.
Coming Soon…
“Coming Soon…”
Not going to lie… but this has to be one of the most annoying things to see or read on a website. They might as well take the menu buttons off the menu.
Don’t advertise that you have the information, when apparently you don’t have it.
CWF Highlight Video
This is posted on the CWF website, but I thought I’d give yall a video link to see what we’re all about.
Word Press – Evening Star
Update on The Evening Star website:
I got some help from my webhost, Brian.net and decided to give WordPress a go.
It’s pretty simple to run once you get it going – but for anyone not knowing anything about computers – it could be a bit of a headache.
I’m gonna play around with it some more, try different themes and designs, but so far I like it.
Steve Jobs buys a washing machine
Wired News has an interesting article on Steve Jobs buying a washing machine. The college drop out and Apple Computers Founder and CEO got his entire family envolved in discussing the design of their new washer and dryer.
In a 1996 interview, Steve said, “Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. To design something really well, you have to ‘get it.’ You have to really grok what it’s all about.” (A geek’s word, to grok is a coinage of science-fiction writer R.A. Heinlein, meaning to understand something thoroughly by having empathy with it.)
I think we miss that many times in designing things and communicating messages.
I’ve designed websites in the past that really jump out at people because they look great, but in all reality they suck as a website, because they don’t work well. You can’t find the pages and information you want quickly.
A well designed newspaper is the same way. Not only does it look good, but the information is organized in a way that people can pick it up every day or every week and know exactly where they need to go to get the information they need.