Lessons In Not Sucking

I haven’t posted a block of links in awhile. I hope to revive that soon. But today I ran across a really nice article about online communication on the Church Marketing Sucks website.

Here’s a quick rundown of the tips:

1. Lower the draw bridge
2. The call to action: what and where
3. RSS is your friend
4. Think in links
5. The 2-second rule
6. Printed content does not equal web content
7. Blog for you, not them

Don’t start or continue a blog because you want a bunch of people to read your thoughts. No one cares more about what you have to think or say than you do. Now that you know that, the only reason you should be blogging is because you just have to get your thoughts out of your head and into some sort of online journal format. The ironic thing is that the more you blog from your head/heart, the more people will actually start tuning in because they see how important this stuff is to you.

8. Don’t re-invent the wheel
9. Share

Read the full article » Lessons In Not Sucking: Communication Online

Filed under: Blogging, Communication, Links, Web

I Do Work

It may not be ground breaking, but I do work. Here are a couple of websites I’ve designed recently. Overall I’m happy that these both happened on my watch. I’m full aware they’re not ready to be submitted to CA, but I’m wading through the waters of web design and it’s feeling pretty good. I may just go in a little deeper now.

edenpasta.com — Completed this one a few months back. It’s pretty basic and straightforward, but I created the whole thing in Dreamweaver so I feel pretty good about that. We went down to Detroit to do a photoshoot for this and I can’t applaud them enough for the work they do in the conditions they do it in. Support the crew by buying great organic pasta!!

edenfoods.com — We just wrapped this one up a couple weeks ago. This one was a long time coming. It’s our first major redesign since 2003. The guy that did the last one left to redesign SI.com, so the shoes were slightly large. It’s intentionally not flashy though. We’re more information driven, but it’s a ton easier to navigate now. I did all of the design, created the images, and the flash banner on the home page. My boy, Jason, joined the fun did the flash logo on the home page. But our IT genius built the entire site by hand coding it.

I’m already excited about edenfoods.com 3.0. My job description is slowly shifting to a web majority workflow and I’m digging it. Maybe one of these days I’ll do a site for myself.

Filed under: Design, Dreamweaver, Eden Foods, Flash, HTML, Organic, Web, Work

Quick Hits

» Blue Like Jazz is Being Made Into a Movie

» Vatican Issues Commandments for Drivers

» Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Throw Back

» Billie Jean is NOT My Lover

» 25 Web Sites to Watch

» Gear for the Worshipper

Filed under: Donald Miller, Mike Tyson, Nintendo, Sack Cloth, Vatican, Web, YouTube