Archive for the 'Web' Category


Google Finance

I frequently visit Google Finance, but the graph on the home page always confuses me. For the graph, there are two keys, the one above with colored lines and the one below, indicating percentage and numerical changes. Why not combine the two: And only have one key. It seems like a huge improvement for a [...]

Student Ministry Website Ideas

Below are some designs I put together for our the new student ministry mini-site here at Champion Forest Baptist Church. I designed their current website, In Your Element, in 2006, and was featured in a the book, Web Designers Idea Book (2008). The aims of the ministry have changed since then and a new student [...]

Website Design Sketches

Below are some design sketches for the new TNCCA website. The TNCCA is a small consultancy which helps churches and their buildings. The sketches provide a basic overview of the elements of the design and constitute a wireframe to work from. This is always my first step in visualizing how to orient a site. The [...]

Online Prayer Room

I had the privilege of working on the Online Prayer Room at Champion Forest Baptist Church. I designed the interface, and David Corley, our application developer wrote most of the back end. I helped polish the remaining loose ends. You can see a brief screencast of the application below. (I’m narrating)

Site Preview, 1

Here’s another preview of the site…

The New Site

Here’s a sneak peak of our new website… in IE6. Microsoft, can I hate you any more than I already do?

Introducing Source

I’m proud to inroduce SOURCE, the code behind the Champion Forest website. SOURCE is a place to share what we’ve created with the rest of the world (for free too!). Today we have begun with FIRO: Flash Image Rotation, a system that dynamically rotates and mattes images. In the future we plan to add Diago [...]

Facebook’s Big Blunder

In one day, Facebook’s valuation has likely dropped 50%. Why, you ask? Because they created features which undermine the whole culture of Facebook. Facebook unveiled a few huge new features yesterday morning called the “News Feed” and “Mini Feed,” both of which are designed to help you keep track of the changes in your friend’s [...]

It’s Time to Vote

That’s right folks, the brand new Champion Forest Website has been listed on The ChurchBeauty Website. The website is dedicated to beautiful church websites (as the name implies), and because we made the list, I’m encouraging ( / asking) you to visit the site and give our new website 5 stars. We’re on the homepage [...]

Champion Forest, Part II

Yes, folks, we’re now entering CFBC v2. (That simply means the second version of the church website). With little fanfare and even fewer problems, we launched the new version of the website. For you less-technical folks, you may want to skim this post, and I do plan on posting about several of the interesting new [...]