I’ve been meaning to write a review of the new book THE BLOGGING CHURCH by Brian Bailey with Terry Storch. I haven’t had time, but let me say it is a very good book, especially for churches and pastors considering blogging.

WEB 2.0 is a term that gets thrown around a lot. Bobby Gruenewald has posted a YouTube video that does a nice job of explaining and capturing what Web 2.0 is and why it is pretty revolutionary. You should check it out and let me know what you think. LINK: web 2.0 at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

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?

Stephen Hallgren and I will be starting a new series next week. We will be trading of critiquing examples of sites that we feel are good and bad. We will try to offer one or two solid examples from each site and how you can learn from them.
I would like to say from the outset […]

Return of Design - Color Schemes, Design, Development, and Inspiration
I love simple. I love it when simple is combined with informative. Take a look at Return of Design.

IDFuel, the Industrial Design Weblog
Often, the person in charge of the technology at a church is not a star developer, designer, or even a computer person. This is a limitation. But, couldn’t it also be a hidden blessing? When I am doing a design or building a system, I will often seek out the least […]

My pastor has a saying, “Methods are many, principles are few. Methods will change, but principles never do.” PowerPoint is one method of applying a principle. It’s the principle behind the method of Powerpoint, and similar presentation methods, that I think we have lost and need to rethink.
The principle behind PowerPoint is […]

Wired News: What Websites Do to Turn On Teens
Ok pastors. Here is your free market research. This is a great article on how teens use the web. Check it out and look at the sites that the uber users of the internet are lookign at.