Catholic Tech Talk

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 [...]

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, [...]

Even though I’m semi-retired from the web development business, I still get asked all the time, “Who can build my website?”. I’ll attempt to answer that question.

LAMP is an acronym for the Open-Source software applications Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP – probably the most common website ‘stack’ platform on the Web. If you are a serious blogger or operate a website, it’s worthwhile to be familiar with them.

HTML5 is being hailed as the new age of the web and few would argue that it fills in some of the gaps in Flash and Silverlight but what does this mean to web designers?

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 [...]

Ever since Steve Jobs dismissed Flash a few months back, it sure seems the interest in Flash has cooled. Now, multitouch and gesture support has arrived for the Adobe Flash platform. Will it be enough to restart long-term interest? Only time will tell.

Six Revisions has a great blog post, outlining some of the reasons why PUBLIC SCHOOL websites – umm – are not so hot. In addition, it has good suggestions on how to improve matters. So, everywhere it says PUBLIC SCHOOL websites, just insert PARISH SCHOOL websites. Obviously, Parish School’s have a different mission than the [...]

After you’ve built and launched your new website, the work is just beginning. Be sure to follow the suggestions in this great article, “?Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website“. Not exactly sure about the DMOZ recommendation – I’ll need to look into that one – but everything else is highly recommended. What [...]

Last week at my day gig, I had the opportunity to install a WordPress Multisite collection of blogs. WordPress Multisite (formerly called WordPress MU) is now a core feature of WordPress beginning with version 3.0. WP refers to a collection of sites as a ‘Network’. Some of the benefits include: All sites use the same [...]

Choosing the right CMS is one of the critical first-steps to be made when building a new website. The explosion of Open Source alternatives – Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress – has fueled many a debate on which platform is best. Most experienced developers will tell you that you need to choose the right tool for [...]

With the proliferation of low-cost website hosting options, finding a reliable hosting provider is a challenge. Many — if not most — developers just stick with the first one that isn’t terrible. Although, sometimes you don’t know a hosting provider is terrible until it’s too late. If you’re looking for a solid and professional hosting partner [...]

WooThemes, a premium WordPress and ExpressionEnginge theme developer, announced today that they are adding Drupal to their mix of design platforms. “After months of back-and-forth, we’re really happy to finally announce the addition of Drupal themes to the WooThemes family. Having launched our theme awesomeness on both ExpressionEngine  & Tumblr since the beginning of the [...]