About:Web Design — Two In a Row

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I’m not usu­ally a fan of the About​.com sites. None of them, for a vari­ety of reasons.

How­ever, I do still sub­scribe to “About Web Design,” and some­times I actu­ally look at one of the posts. To my pleas­ant sur­prise, she recently wrote two in a row that are worth reading:

1. Why Do Web Devel­op­ers Ignore Their Own Sites?

Ouch. This one hits home, in terms of work­ing on web­sites for oth­ers, and neglect­ing my own.

It’s funny to me how some of the most bor­ing and ugly sites on the Inter­net are for Web designers.

By the way, just ignore this part: “My Cri­te­ria for Judg­ing a High Qual­ity Site”

2. Web Design Busi­nesses – Start with a Busi­ness Plan

Some good points from the post:

  • If you treat your busi­ness seri­ously, so will your clients.
  • What is a Busi­ness Plan
  • Why You Need a Busi­ness Plan
  • Sit Down and Do It Now

Amen!

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Church Marketing Sucks

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An inter­est­ing item from Church Mar­ket­ing Sucks on Novem­ber 11:

National Out­reach Con­ven­tion 2005 by Greg Atkinson.

He men­tioned a speaker at the con­ven­tion that caught my attention:

“They Like Jesus, Not the Church” by Dan Kim­ball (Found­ing Pas­tor of Vin­tage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia)
The con­cept is that peo­ple are open, but it is orga­nized reli­gion is what turns peo­ple off. 

Best quote:

“We must become lis­ten­ers of peo­ple and watch­ers of culture.”

I would’ve enjoyed see­ing that one.

WSJ Editorial: I cancelled AOL

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The week­end edi­tion of the Wall Street Jour­nal had an amus­ing edi­to­r­ial enti­tled “The Wrong Address” by Lionel Shriver. The site requires a sub­scrip­tion, but a free trial may be available. To find it, just do an arti­cle search for “hate AOL.“

Best quotes:

  • “I did it! I can­celled AOL.“
  • “For years I’d kept this dinosaur ISP….“
  • “…you gotta admire any soft­ware that spews such a trop­i­cal array of error messages.”
  • “Humil­i­at­ing nursery-​school graphics.”
  • “Con­stant updates of a pro­gram whose bal­loon­ing size is in inverse pro­por­tion to its functionality.”

Ouch.

I was an AOL mem­ber back in the day, when they were new, hip and fun. Only a hand­ful of years later, they seem old and clingy.