As you may have heard from me before, I am a WordPress evangelist. I truly believe WordPress is the best blog and web management choice a church or non-profit organization can make. And the best WordPress partner is Standard Theme … a dream team if you will. Standard Theme and the entire line of 8BIT themes are on sale for 25% off regular price from June 30-July5, 2011. Continue Reading…
For a number of years, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of how the work of web architects and building architects merge. Meaning, how do we translate the visual cues that the visitor may experience on your website to the physical architecture of your building? Cracking this nut creates an enormous opportunity for churches.
In 2007, I had the opportunity to sit-in on the keynote presentation at the IA Summit in Las Vegas. Joshua Prince-Ramus was the speaker, he’s an acclaimed architect who has worked on such buildings as the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas and the Seattle Central Library. Prince-Ramus shared how he used data visualization analysis to develop the design for the Seattle Central Library project – meaning, the architectural blueprint of the building is the visual representation of data collected. Continue Reading…
If you do any kind of web development, you realize how difficult it is sometimes to achieve cross-browser cooperation. No one wants their beautiful new design to look amazing in Chrome and “less than” in Internet Explorer.
Transparent or opaque backgrounds have become a very popular web site design trend in recent months. Creating the effect is easy, but having it work cross-browser isn’t, especially with Internet Explorer. So to tackle this issue, Michael Novotny, a web developer that I have enormous respect for, created the CSS Transparent Background Generator. Still in BETA, this is a great tool that you ought to check out.
**Photo courtesy of DJ Buck.
Best described as a tech-toting evangelist for web and social media, Matt Carlisle consults with non-profits and faith groups to make the necessary changes to fully embrace new media.
