Search the Bible On Your Cell Phone with Zondervan’s .Mobi Website

Although I talk about using technology for ministry a lot here, I admit there are a lot of areas I’m still learning about and exploring … one of the latest is creating websites geared directly for mobile devices, like cell phone, PDAs, etc. And with the .mobi domain now available, I’m seeing more and more pop up.

Jonathan Petersen, Zondervan’s Director of Internet Marketing, was kind of enough to send me some information about a couple of their “.mobi” websites to review. Read more

February 17, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Rockin’ Cool Church Website: Northgate Pentecostals Colleyville, Texas

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Check out the Northgate Pentecostals site … including their MySpace site, Pastor’s Blog and Save The Metroplex site, which I’m kind of wondering if Jay Jones had a hand in?

[Thanks to R Payne for the heads up.]

February 15, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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What’sBetweenTheSheets.com - Kaleo’s Upcoming Sermon Series on Sex

between the sheets sermon series Kaleo Church in Houston, pastored by Bill Streger, will be starting a 7-week sermon series based on the book of Solomon on “Love, Intimacy, Romance, Marriage, Relationships, Conflict, and Sex” called “Between the Sheets.”

They’ve got one rockin’ website to promote the series and some interesting promotional materials to go with it.

Check it out at: WhatsBetweenTheSheets.com, including a MySpace site. Read more

February 13, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design

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Change the Default Permalinks Structure for Your WP-Run Church Website or Blog

This post is another in the Using WordPress to Run Church Websites series on changing the post URL structure — called peramalinks — in WordPress.

Although this post is really for the series, it could also apply as a blogging tip as I use this philosophy of changing the default permalink structure for all the new blogs I set up. Read more

February 12, 2007 · Filed Under Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design, WordPress

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Church Website Tip: Check How Your Site Looks In Different Browsers

One important thing to do for your church website — and something I’m learning to do with my own sites — is to see how it looks in different web browsers.

What I mean is … you’ll want to check to see how your site displays in, say, Internet Explorer 5 or IE6 or IE7 … or Firefox (my personal favorite). The reason for this is because not all browsers are made the same (Subliminal message: Choose Firefox, it rocks!).

And the way they pull up a site varies.

This is one of the great complexities of web design … trying to build sites that display properly in the main browsers.

Here’s a great resource site to make that check: Browser Shots. This site takes all the work and hassle out of it … and gives you screenshots of how your site looks in various browsers.

February 10, 2007 · Filed Under Web Site Design

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Two Quick Ways to Make WordPress Look Like A Regular Website and Not a Blog

As I’ve said before in this tutorial series – Using WordPress to Run Church Websites – WordPress was really designed for creating and maintaining blogs.

But as we’re exploring in this series, it can also be used as a way to easily create and maintain small to medium-size churches.

There are two quick and relatively easy ways to make WordPress looks less like a typical blog and more than a fully functional, clean and sleek church website: creating a static home page and a dynamic sidebar navigation.

OK, those are fancy, $2 words, but I had to use them …

Now, I’ll explain what that means.

January 30, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Rockin' Web Sites, Web Site Design, WordPress

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