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Start Redesign Right: Organize Your Dreams
The very first step of a great redesign is ridiculously simple. It’s to dream — dream big even — and then (here’s the key) capture your ideas and organize them. To do this, you’ll need a place to...
View ArticleMeasure Your Site: Analytics and Beyond
Do you want to know what’s really happening on your congregation’s website — basing it on hard data instead of your best guess? Or would you like a few compelling graphics about your site to show...
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Website Needs Assessments and Surveys
Arguably the single most important step of a congregational website redesign is figuring out what users need — not what you think they need and certainly not just what you need — but what they really...
View ArticleShare Your Redesign Plans with Two Deliverables
Perhaps the most common mistake I see with website redesigns is jumping in at the deep end — going straight to design or code. My theory about why this happens so frequently is that it’s very human. We...
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Assemble Your Web Redesign Team
Having wrapped up initial redesign planning, it’s time to gather your redesign team. For many of you, this will be where the rubber hits the road. Intertwined with creating a team are two key pieces:...
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Tips on Preventing Volunteer Burnout
Last week I finally added it up. I’m doing seven different volunteer jobs for my church this year. In case there was any doubt, it’s official: I’m a worker bee. But then again I’ve always liked the...
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Staying Ahead of the Web Tech Curve -and- How Not to Drown in the Tidal Wave...
Let’s take a moment to look again at the big picture of the redesign process. Having gone through the various initial steps, you should be nearing the end of the planning phase. Soon you’ll be facing...
View ArticleSunshine and Starlight on My Face Again
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist… most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of...
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WordPress Theme Upgrades: Faith2012 and UU2011
I’ve just completed upgrades for both the Faith2012 and UU2011 WordPress themes. Both upgrades are minor — from version 2.1 to 2.2. (Details are below.) Download links and theme information are on the...
View ArticleMinor Upgrade of Faith2012 and UU2011 Themes
Many thanks to Dan Flippo, webmaster of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, for pointing out a typo in my WordPress themes. I thought I had corrected it, but apparently the correction was not...
View ArticleListening to Webmasters Past
A reader recently posed the following: “Thank you for your overview of the rolls and skills involved in developing a church web site. Could you explain further this sentence: ‘In particular, care...
View ArticleRoshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s Zen Talks on the Precepts
If I had to point to one Web resource that has enriched my life this past year, hands down it would be the podcasts of the Rochester Zen Center. In part this is because last January, to my...
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Kindness as Power
Today is World Kindness Day. I did a post about it on my other blog last year — thinking I’d probably never do one again. But then last week the election happened in my country. Reeling Many of my...
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