October 4th, 2007
Worship Tunes
For those of you following the IT Roundtable going on at COR this mid-week, listen to the linked file below to see what cool worship you missed out on last evening. This is totally bootleg I admit. Grabbed it with two clicks on my Mac during the song. I would give attribution for their work, but I frankly couldn’t remember anything else after a great day of fantastic discussion. Someone else help me out with their name and summary/link of the church where they play. Was a neat vibe. Church IT Roundtable Worship mp3.
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October 4th, 2007
As I said previously, I have been in the midst of rethinking what I want to do with my IT blogging. With some prodding by my former office mate Barry, I have decided to blog about things other Ministry IT folks may not be covering. So on this late night I created a new blog I am titling a church cio. I have moved my old posts for historical reasons, but my new focus will be on documenting my experience as a Church CIO (with a director title). Read my about page for more info on my long term goal.
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September 18th, 2007
David Drinnon was kind enough to reference a comment I left on his site in a fine post this morning on building site maps and information architecture. In it he even calls me a friend!
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September 14th, 2007
LifeFaithFusion.com finally launches this weekend to an audience of 10,000+ folks associated with the ministry of Casas Church and Roger Barrier. My favorite UI designer, Christ Merritt of Pixelight Creative, did the design for me last winter. Some projects take much longer and many more hours than ever anticipated, and this is one of those projects that seemed to never want to end. Unfortunately, I brought a friend named Brian Slezak (of the Web Empowered Church and Church of the Resurrection) down this rocky road with me and I will forever be indebted for his service and amazing grace. In spite of it being a painful project, I am pleased with the functionality of the site and the overall result. The client controls all the content management on this site (which uses Typo3) and created all of the in-page graphics themselves, so Chris and I can’t take credit for any of that. They also completely control the sidebars.
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August 22nd, 2007
Stuart was kind enough to post a comment asking for helpful hints for building a web site as a lay person. My comment grew larger than the comment window, so I decided to just post this in case it is helpful for small churches using an all lay person team to build their a website.
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July 31st, 2007
Over the last four years, Stonebriar Community Church has blessed me with the chance to learn web design, agile project management, application development, and most importantly what the inside of a church is really like. I was given opportunity within Web Ministry when there was barely such a thing. For that I am very grateful and am forever changed.
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July 24th, 2007
Chris Merritt from Pixelight Creative wrote this article for Digital Web Magazine describing the process he used on the Stonebriar redesign. Chris is a great guy and was way more generous to me in the article than I probably deserve.
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Digital Web Magazine Article - Stonebriar Community Church Design
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June 8th, 2007
In the midst of my series on project management to build a church website, I have been off juggling multiple freelance projects and deliverables … struggling to make time for blogging. It’s great that this recent success is giving me opportunities to help others, but my blogging about the Stonebriar Community Church Redesign has suffered. Will get back on track ASAP, but wanted to give you a couple of links (and thanks) to places that have referenced our work:
CSSBeauty
ChurchBeauty
Nathan Smith at Sonspring
Patrick Haney on Flickr
Ron Hall on Buzz.Typo3.org
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More Stonebriar Community Church Redesign News
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May 19th, 2007
This entry is part of a series on building church websites. Check out the first post.
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To Build a Church Web Site: Plan the Project
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May 14th, 2007
This entry is part of a series on building church websites. Check out the first post.
This is a taste of
To Build a Church Web Site: Study the Audience
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