Congrats to @RachelBasden, the winner of a website package and a year of free hosting from BrentLacy.com More stuff tomorrow!
Question of the Day: Church Websites…
If you could change one thing about your church’s website, what would it be? or If you church does not have a website, what is one thing you see as a “have to include”?
Web Site Tip: Copyrights.
If you are not the one designing your site, or one of your paid employees (contractors do not count here…), make sure your design contract makes the copyright of the website yours, or there is at least a way to purchase it. This will prevent a lot of surprises and […]
New Project Launch….ParkeCountyOnline.com
As a Web Developer, I get to take part in some interesting projects. MinistryPlace.Net and the rest of the BrentLacy.com properties are based in Parke County, Indiana. It is a rural county of 18,000 people, about 60 miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana. we have fields, farms, Amish communities, and most […]
Advertising Changes…
The best way to describe my traffic figures are: funny. There are dips and spikes all over the place. That is not terribly conducive to traditional affiliate marketing ads. For the months of February and March, I am giving away advertising. Some will be to Friends/Clients the rest will be decided by […]
Church Planting and Technology….
Church Marketing Sucks has a good article out that interviews Drew Goodmanson today. It is interesting to see what Churches are doing and where we have yet to get it right… I think churches at least now know that they need a website, which is often the new front door to […]
Hacked.
Last night, I found a surprise. Hackers from Indonesia broke into my FTP server and changed files around on most of the websites I host. Bummer. I first thought it was an SQL Database Injection break-in. I was pleasantly surprised to find only one file had been changed in each folder. It could […]
Irony
There is probably something I’m missing in this, but an attempt to link my Facebook page to Twitter resulted in this… DOH!
Error 500 – Internal server error in WordPress
If you are getting Error 500 messages on 1&1 this may be your fix… It happened to work for me. The culprit is that 1&1 defaults to PHP version 4, not version 5. Try these lines in your .htaccess file: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php You can read more […]
Church Website Design Series…Churches With Good Websites…#1 (In No Particular Order)
This is the fist in a new series at Ministryplace that is going to look at church websites that are done well (and maybe some later that are not done as well)….. *Want Your Church Website Reviewed? Comment it! Southridge Church (southridgechurch.ca) *What They Did Well*: – Good use of […]
Internet Explorer 5.5 and the Church…A Fair Comparison?
Not Long ago, ChurchCrunch took a look at IE 5.5 and the comparison to
methods of doing Church in America. I found some of the points very
thought-provoking….