I find myself often talking about the importance of good page titles, so I thought I’d get all of the info into one place. The page title is very important for a number of reasons: It was what people see in their toolbar when your site is open. It is the default text when someone […]

I’d venture to say that close to half of all church websites feature a photo of the church on the front. It’s somewhat logical, but it’s not very well thought out. Ask any minister “what is the church?” and they’ll almost certainly reply “the people in our congregation” – and it’s true. A church building […]

Check out this great article about why PDFs should typically be used only on documents that are meant to be printed – not on “normal” pages. I find many sites have PDF files all over the place, for things that have no business being in that format. I had intended to write a long article […]

I’m coming across a growing number of church sites (both large and small) that don’t have a search option. Why? I recently changed ours over from the Google-assisted search to one that I built myself using PHP’s awesome "full text search" capabilities. If you have a database-driven site, that is certainly the way to go. […]