I’m enthralled that more and more free web apps are coming from the big names like Google and Adobe. Adobe is poised to release a free web-version of Photoshop and an online version of Premiere has already been created, although it’s known as YouTube’s Remixer. But even cooler than those apps is Kuler. Kuler allows you to create, upload, view, vote on, search, tag, or generally be enamored by color schemes. It’s a web…

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• Seeing God’s fingerprints in media
• The roles of media and the Church in culture
• Media resources that communicate Truth
• The creative use of media and technology in ministry

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Perhaps you have heard the buzz surrounding Silverlight.

To get a snapshot with some links, read “Silverlight - a welcome surprise from Microsoft“

LifeChurch.tv is one church with multiple locations that produces a lot of content, video and otherwise. They’ve seen fit to make much of it free for the downloading, from teaser videos and loops, to graphics, outlines, and small group questions, even to downloadable ISO files of entire messages for burning to a DVD…

Senator Edwards has been very purposeful in using the web as a platform for getting his message out. Politics aside, I really like what I see. His team does a very good job selling the man and the message. Here is a quick top five of what he is doing well:

There has been a lot written already this week about the Ted Haggard situation and its ramifications (you can read some of my thoughts here and here and listen to my sermon on it here). But Andrew Jones (aka tallskinnykiwi) posted earlier with week about Leith Anderson in the Search Engines. (Leith is […]

Fonts are easy to find, but hard to use wisely. We know poor font use when we see it, but how often do we knowingly commit the same crimes, whether to save time or because ‘it’s so pretty,’ even though it’s so not legible. Here are many places to help you find free fonts and […]

CSS is hard. Old, table based layouts were hard too, but today, CSS is hard. Moving to web standards is hard. At the recent AN Event Apart in Seattle I was shocked to see Eric Meyer’s solution to a couple f problems was a quick fix. A QUICK FIX? But this is the Yoda of CSS… the master of all that is Cascading. How can he use a QUICK FIX?

The time has come for a redesign.
We would like to hear from you about what you like or don’t like about the current site. We want this project to be guided by you and your needs, so tell us what they are. Please email your comments and criticisms to dave@noahinstitute.org. We will be back in […]

Church Marketing Sucks just got back the results of their online poll asking whether your church has a web site or not. The results are interesting and really emphasize the need for what we are doing here at BetaChurch.org.
Of the 253 people who took the survey, 36% said that their church has a website […]