February 12th, 2010

I recently finished a project for West Salem Foursquare Church in Salem, OR (my home church). It was awesome working with the lead pastor and the youth pastor to pull this site together.
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Tags: Blog, Church, CSS, Design, Portfolio, Social Media, Website, WordPress
Posted in Portfolio | 4 Comments »
February 8th, 2010

I was sitting in Starbucks this morning when a young guy came up to the counter. When the Barrista asked him how he was he grunted and said “I hate Mondays”. He couldn’t have sounded more pathetic if he wanted to. He acted as if waking up Monday morning was like a trip to the electric chair. If you hate what you do each week so much — DON’T DO IT!
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Tags: Books, Design, Inspiration, Passion, work
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January 27th, 2010

Taptu is a mobile search company based out of the UK. They recently contacted me to redesign their blog. Their goal was to integrate the blog with their overall branding and incorporate the various social media tools used by the company. Some of the features of the new blog are:
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Design, Online, Portfolio, Social Media, Social Networking, Taptu, Twitter, Web, Website, Websites, WordPress
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January 19th, 2010

Many companies (churches and ministries included) are anxious to build a great website, but have not thought about strategy. They have grandiose ideas about what their website will look like, but they have not thought about the purpose behind the website.
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Tags: Blog, Church, Communications, Culture, Design, Ministry, Online, Social Media, Strategy, Tools, Web, Website, Websites
Posted in Strategy | 12 Comments »
November 12th, 2009

WordPress is the application I use to power most of the websites I build. In fact, unless a client requires me to use another system, I use WordPress exclusively. There are a few great applications out there, but in my opinion WordPress is the best. Here’s why:
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Tags: Applications, Design, Online, Reviews, Software, Tools, Web, Website, Websites, WordPress
Posted in Reviews, Tools | 5 Comments »