Coming Soon: A Facebook for Your Faith?
Can you imagine combining the technological genius behind Facebook and Napster with belief-based organizations? I’m trying hard and find the possibilities jaw-dropping. Actually, it had never...
View ArticleIs an iPhone a Must?
Birthday season and Mother’s Day are rapidly approaching, and I have a dreadful case of hardware greed. When the iPhone was first announced, I quickly persuaded myself it could wait. But yesterday...
View ArticleDo You Know of Prayer Request 2.0 Applications?
A Christian web developer recently asked me about web apps for prayer requests. He thinks, and I agree, that, “The social networking aspect of web 2.0 applications would be a great platform.â€Â I...
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Weebly: Website Creation for the Rest of Us?
Weebly, a new startup by three Penn State students, makes it incredibly easy to build a professional-looking website for your congregation – and it’s free. As they put it: “Our focus is to maintain...
View ArticleDoes Safari 3 Matter For Your Church Website?
Yesterday the web professionals’ world was consumed with talk about Apple’s new version of its browser, Safari. Amazingly enough, it now runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X....
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Members Only: A Wiki in Sheep’s Clothing
Several years ago, I attempted to create a members-only site for our congregation using phpBB. This limped along and was ignored by everyone except porn and viagra spammers. Stinker #1. My second...
View ArticleThe iPhone and Church Websites
I succumbed. I got an iPhone. It reminds me of the Christmas I was 7 and got the most amazing (to my eyes) dollhouse. I could hardly tear myself away. But unlike a dollhouse, this toy I can take with...
View ArticleCustomizing Websites for the iPhone
While all of the sites that I maintain look fine on my lovely new iPhone, they are itsy-bitsy postage-stamp renditions of their big daddy monitor versions. Does that suffice, I wondered? My hope was it...
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