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If you pay someone to maintain your website, here are some helpful talking points to use when you correspond: ​ 1) How is my website performing on mobile? Mobile traffic (aka on-a-phone traffic) makes up 60+% of all web traffic globally. It’s important that your site is functional (and readable) on a tiny screen. ​ 2) Tell […]

Website Design

February 9, 2024

Questions churches & schools should be asking their webmaster

I haven’t gotten this nerdy in a while, so buckle up. No matter if you have a website that was coded from scratch – or created on a builder like SquareSpace, all sites are built with roughly the same building blocks. Your computer reads these blocks of code and display the shapes, colors, text, and […]

Website Design

January 5, 2024

What’s an H1 tag and why should I care?

Let’s use your logo to make a functional color palette. Pastor John Qualmann in Crossville, TN gave me permission to use his logo as an example. Thank you! If Pastor Qualmann only used the colors in his logo to create graphics, those graphics wouldn’t pass the contrast test. Why does contrast matter? Besides making things hard on the […]

Graphic Design, Website Design

December 15, 2023

Does your color palette pass this test?

Imagine a “Who We Serve” tab on your navigation. When a visitor rolls over it, a list of locations appears. This is a “hack” typically used by local restaurants. Even if a small business doesn’t physically have a location in the area, they’ll list all the areas they deliver or host pop-ups/food trucks. ​ Churches […]

SEO, Website Design

November 17, 2023

Add more locations to your website (not just for multi-site)

Don’t tell yourself that you’re “bad at technology” when you’re trying to fight bad technology. Here are 3 signs you need to make a platform switch: 1) You dread & procrastinate making small changes You need to change a date on your Events page and you haven’t the slightest clue how to get there. You know […]

Website Design

September 29, 2023

3 signs you need to move your website to a better platform