Category Archives: Technologies to Watch

Customizing Websites for the iPhone

July 4, 2007

While all of the sites that I maintain look fine on my lovely new iPhone, they are itsy-bitsy postage-stamp renditions of their big daddy monitor versions. Does that suffice, I wondered? My hope was it would be easy to “sniff” … Continue reading …

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The iPhone and Church Websites

July 2, 2007

I succumbed. I got an iPhone. It reminds me of the Christmas I was 7 and got the most amazing (to my eyes) dollhouse. I could hardly tear myself away. But unlike a dollhouse, this toy I can take with … Continue reading …

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Members Only: A Wiki in Sheep’s Clothing

July 1, 2007

Several years ago, I attempted to create a members-only site for our congregation using phpBB. This limped along and was ignored by everyone except porn and viagra spammers. Stinker #1. My second attempt was using MediaWiki software (Wikipedia is the … Continue reading …

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Does Safari 3 Matter For Your Church Website?

June 13, 2007

Yesterday the web professionals’ world was consumed with talk about Apple’s new version of its browser, Safari. Amazingly enough, it now runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well as Mac OS X. It’s also free and you can … Continue reading …

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Weebly: Website Creation for the Rest of Us?

May 29, 2007

Weebly, a new startup by three Penn State students, makes it incredibly easy to build a professional-looking website for your congregation – and it’s free. As they put it: “Our focus is to maintain elegance and simplicity coupled with powerful … Continue reading …

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Do You Know of Prayer Request 2.0 Applications?

May 27, 2007

A Christian web developer recently asked me about web apps for prayer requests.  He thinks, and I agree, that, “The social networking aspect of web 2.0 applications would be a great platform.”  I think Ajax in particular has a lot … Continue reading …

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Is an iPhone a Must?

May 5, 2007

Birthday season and Mother’s Day are rapidly approaching, and I have a dreadful case of hardware greed. When the iPhone was first announced, I quickly persuaded myself it could wait. But yesterday when walking home, I suddenly knew: it’s a … Continue reading …

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Coming Soon: A Facebook for Your Faith?

April 3, 2007

Can you imagine combining the technological genius behind Facebook and Napster with belief-based organizations? I’m trying hard and find the possibilities jaw-dropping. Actually, it had never occurred to me before reading this a recent story in Techcrunch. But it makes … Continue reading …

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