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Website Thinking – Part 2
I’m sharing a few of the thoughts behind dundasanglican.com.au in the hope that they may be useful to someone.
I thought pretty hard about the top level structure of the site’s navigation. There were two principles for me:
1. I wanted to keep it lean. Previous attempts at making church websites have tended to spiral out of [...]
When will Book Publishers Get with the times?
I tried to buy two books in the last week or so. One was out of print. The other was on order and is four weeks away because it is on a ship from the States.
The interweb has been around for a while now. Surely, there need not be such a thing as ‘out of [...]
Making MP3 Sermons nice and small
A typical MP3 song will be about 1MB / min. But being speech, sermons don’t need to be nearly as high quality as music. I did a bit of experimenting with the MP3 compression settings for sermons.
I’ve been getting 25 min sermons down to about 6MB, and still very clear and easy to [...]
Website Thinking – Part 1
As I mentioned last post, I have just launched a new website for our church which I am really happy with. It’s far from perfect, but I did think pretty hard about it and I think I’ve avoided many common pitfalls (most of which I’ve fallen into in the past). So I thought I share [...]
dundasanglican.com.au
Launched my new church website today. dundasanglican.com.au There are still a few pages of content to write, but all the main features are in place and I’m really happy with how its looking.
Gmail for your church
I’m in the process of setting up gmail to handle our church’s emails. Google have a service called Google Apps – it’s free for non-profits – and it allows you to use Gmail on your domain. That’s nice. It means we can have ben@dundasanglican.com.au (rather than ben@gmail.com) etc etc.
There are two factors that made this [...]
An Australian Accent Audio Bible?
Nick and I were talking this morning about how there’s not much around by way of audio Bible’s in the Australian accent.
All I could find was was a Good News New Testament with background music here.
And if you want to make your own – licensing is problem…
but I just found this from our friends at [...]
Keep Fresh
Why do so many church websites look dated and stale?
I reckon part of the problem is an over ambitious ideas about the kinds of content that will be available.
You build your site thinking ‘wouldn’t it be great to have a photo gallery’. It would, but if no one is taking a steady stream of good [...]
Prezi = Presentation Win
I just discovered a brilliant online presentation tool called Prezi. It lets you create stunning presentations that go beyond the boring slide to slide Powerpoint experience we’ve grown accustom to.
Anyone game enough to use it in a sermon?
(Via TechCrunch)
