I love the idea of several Christian-oriented nerds discussing in a very informal setting tech of some sort that may be beneficial for churches, bloggers, missionaries, and any other kind of ministry out there. To do this well, we are going to have hangouts every other Saturday (or so) at 10AM EST that will be On Air for all to see live and then we will be posting the YouTube video on ChurchMag. Catch the next Hangout here.
It is finally here, seventy8Productions will be going through a website redesign the evening of February 28th. In the past, we have talked about what a website redesign needs and this is the third iteration, but this is so much more than just CSS and HTML changes.
After the jump, we will layout what we discuss in the video above that we plan to change.
Within the Christian blogging communities, there are three things that need to get attention by the bloggers: quality and unique content, networking instead of spamming on social media, and legitimate, high-quality images that compliment posts. Of these three things, the images issue has been least addressed but may speak the most into the ethics of the Christian faith as well as bring in the greatest amount of traffic.
Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
Bounce rate is a fickle little statistic within the blogging world. Specifically, it is the percentage of people that visit your website and decide to go to a second page or not. A high percentage (above 75%) means that most people are coming to your website, reading the link that sent them their, and then moving on. For a normal website, you want this number to be very low and even with a blog, a second page means another pageview and a higher demand from advertisers.
So how can we correctly measure bounce rate within our blog to know if it is good and what are some techniques to manage it?
If you are on WordPress, you have seen that recognizable yellow window at the top with a notification letting you know that there is a new WordPress update to 3.5. For those that do not know the process, a change from 3.4x to 3.5 means that there are big changes in this for you to love, it is not just small fixes. After the jump, we have a list of the changes.
Without delaying you to read the whole article, I will say it now: do the update!
In my 10 years of doing web design work, there are numerous things that scare us. Some of it had to be the issues of multiple browsers that rendered websites differently, programming on different content management system platforms, and the issue of interpreting a client’s idea to actuality. I probably got it wrong more than I got it write, but what I did was more than good that I was shown lots of grace.
The infographic below shows several other phobias of people that work in the creative field. Some of the issues are relational, others monetary, and very little is actually within the design world.
