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The 7 Cardinal Virtues of a Catholic Website

The 7 Cardinal Virtues of a Catholic Website

As Catholics, we aren’t the only ones who should be striving for virtue or allowing ourselves to be defined by our Faith.  Believe it or not, our faith should also define our websites. This means more, however, than simply delivering sermons from the web mount – it means using the tools at our disposal, and [...]

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What Good is a Parish Logo?

What Good is a Parish Logo?

I was working on a website a few years ago for a parish that had a parishioner create a complete branding of their parish name to use in stationary, on their website, and anywhere that they placed their parish name.  While designing their site, it made it incredibly easy for me to design their site, [...]

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Things on a Church’s Home Page

Things on a Church’s Home Page

Take a look at your Church’s Home Page today.  What’s on it? In larger companies or design agencies, there’s a formal role on a web project called a User Experience Designer.  This person’s role is to consider the user’s wants, needs, and understanding when they go to your website.  While attending ParishSoft’s User Conference and [...]

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Font Examples

Inject Personality into Your Web Design with New Fonts

For a while now designers and developers have been experimenting with different types of web font solutions, with the idea of improving the look and feel of a website design, injecting personality and its own identity.

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Firefox pins

Useful Firefox Plug-ins For A Web Developer

The rich variety of plug-ins available for Firefox make the browser great for all the testing and fine-tuning a web developer must do. Below listed are plug-ins that will increase your overall performance and make it easier for you to work.

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Forget SEO For Your Parish Website: It’s About Functionality

Any website designers reading this are probably shaking right now after reading that headline.  SEO is short for ‘search engine optimization’ and relates to where your website will show up when people search for things.  For designers, SEO and websites go hand-in-hand.  SEO is about discovery through searches, and for business this is very important [...]

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SitePoint

Awesome Holiday Deals Every Day at SitePoint!

If you are a web developer or aspire to learn in the near future, be sure to check out SitePoint ‘s Holiday Sale. SitePoint offers books, online courses, and other resources to the web developer community. I have purchased books from SitePoint and have found their quality first rate and definitely recommend them. Take today’s [...]

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