Hazards of HTML Haste

sammyd said:

You mean not everyone has a t1 hooked up to their house?
Not everyone runs 1280x1024 resolution?
Someone actually uses something other than IE?

Surely you can't be serious......

Really....you must watch my flash intro, I spent a whole day on it....LOL

And why should I resize those jpegs? They load really fast on my computer.

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MeanDean said:

First, I've found from first-hand experience that teenage'd kids do not make for good webmasters. Though technically adept, they lack the understanding of broader concepts such as 'conversion goals' ... often and only volunteering time to implement cool stuff they're not allowed to implement on their noisily ineffective, 'pimped-up' MySpace pages.

Second - if you can manage Microsoft Word, or even this BBS, then you can manage leveraging an online presence for a church on the cheap using a free tool such as blogger.com.

In fact, it is the advent of such free software services that have lead to a bunch of embarrisingly hasty posts that come back to haunt an online ministry.

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snv1492 said:

As other people said, I think the vast majority of churches do not hire professionals to do their sites. They "hire" a parishioner, who is probably a volunteer, and who's only experience with web design is dragging and dropping things into their free copy of FrontPage Express. They have probably never even seen the code they created, and they don't want to.

That being said, there are some pretty nice standards compliant church sites out there.

http://www.zcpca.org/
http://www.trinitybirmingham.com/
http://www.parkviewbaptist.net/
http://www.thecity.org/
http://www.nsider.org/

There is no reason they can not have a professional website if they hire a professional. Most simply choose not to. There is nothing wrong with having a parishioner volunteer to do the site, but if that parishioner doesn't happen to be a professional web developer, unless god intervenes, he or she will not do professional quality work, and it would be unrealistic to expect otherwise.

The same thing happened across the board though. Ever since WYSIWYG editors took off, the bulk of web design went from the hands of professionals to the hands of amateurs. Even a lot of business sites are horrible because the boss made his secretary or his 12 year old nephew make their company website.

Of course you can't drag and drop together a database application, but most of these types of sites don't require anything that sophisticated, so they are fine with leaving it the mess that it is. Even though they probably would benefit from some sort of CMS, they have no concept of automation and dynamic systems. They don't even have enough knowledge yet to know what they don't know.



What's the security issue in visiting it? Aren't websites are supposed to be visited.

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