By now, most churches have a website. The barriers to building a site have fallen so that anyone with a little time on their hands can build one. But should they? Before seekers will step foot into your church building, more than 70% of them will visit your church's website prior to visiting your meeting location. Are you driving them off before they visit your church? The list contains the top 11 sins you might be commiting with your church website.
I just want to take a minute and say thanks for visiting the new MinistryWarehouse.com! Our goal is to help churches (like yours) improve their outreach and communication. When I was the Director of Communications for a large church, I was always in search of places where I could share ideas, learn new things, and meet others who did what I did, which was to come up with new ideas on a daily basis, 52 weeks a year. I was unable to find such a place and so I started MinistryWarehouse.com. It's a warehouse full of ideas to help the church.
We want to say thanks to the HUGE number of people who filled out an entry to win the iPod Nano we were giving away at the Catalyst Conference, October 3-5. It was great meeting you! And now without futher ado, the winner of the iPod Nano is:
William Wayne Pugh from Church Alive in Loganville, Goergia
Congratulations William and we hope you enjoy your new iPod!
For those of you who don't know, GIMP is a free, open source image manipulation program, similar to Photoshop. The latest version, 2.4.0, was released today with a much needed overhaul of the color scheme and interface. There are a growing number of designers using GIMP as their primary photo/design application.
Unless you're a hand coder, this link will be of interest to you. As web developers, our tools are the aps that make the pages and my personal favorite applicaiton for editing pages is Dreamweaver 8 (I haven't made the leap to CS3 yet). So, it's good to know what other people in the proverbial trenches (or tubes) think of other applications that may make our lives easier.
Grunge design style is all the rage these days. This Photoshop tutorial walks you through the process of making custom brushes. The tutorial uses grunge for thisexample, but you could make any kind of brush with this same method.
This tutorial was made in Photoshop CS3, but the process is basically the same with any version from Photoshop 7 onward.
For those of you who don't know, GIMP is a free, open source image manipulation program, similar to Photoshop. The latest version, 2.4.0, was released today with a much needed overhaul of the color scheme and interface. There are a growing number of designers using GIMP as their primary photo/design application. 
