Comments on: De-stinkify your church Web site http://www.matthewirvine.com/2008/10/23/de-stinkify-your-church-web-site/ the church and I.T. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:54:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://www.matthewirvine.com/2008/10/23/de-stinkify-your-church-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2823 Kevin Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:29:48 +0000 http://www.matthewirvine.com/?p=339#comment-2823 We hit a 75 at visitoasis.org, but the stuff they want us to fix is so minor I bet I could raise that pretty quick. Thanks for the link! We hit a 75 at visitoasis.org, but the stuff they want us to fix is so minor I bet I could raise that pretty quick. Thanks for the link!

]]> By: Matthew http://www.matthewirvine.com/2008/10/23/de-stinkify-your-church-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 Matthew Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:36:58 +0000 http://www.matthewirvine.com/?p=339#comment-1840 @Jason - thanks for the comment! You're absolutely right, it's not just about money. Actual monetary investment can be very small if the investment of time, talent and focus is there. Good insight. @Mickey - I'm not entirely sure how they find the blog, but you need to add some tags to your header. The link tags add the pretty orange icon in the address bar of the Web browser. This is going to look ugly, but this is what ours looks like. Nice score, and great Web site! <code><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="First Baptist Church - Belton, TX RSS Feed" href="http://www.fbcbelton.org/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sunday Morning Sermons Podcast" href="http://feeds.fbcbelton.org/FirstBaptistBeltonSermons" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sunday Evening Sermons Podcast" href="http://feeds.fbcbelton.org/FirstBaptistBeltonEveningSermons" /></code> @Jason – thanks for the comment! You’re absolutely right, it’s not just about money. Actual monetary investment can be very small if the investment of time, talent and focus is there. Good insight.

@Mickey – I’m not entirely sure how they find the blog, but you need to add some tags to your header. The link tags add the pretty orange icon in the address bar of the Web browser. This is going to look ugly, but this is what ours looks like. Nice score, and great Web site!

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="First Baptist Church - Belton, TX RSS Feed" href="http://www.fbcbelton.org/feed/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sunday Morning Sermons Podcast" href="http://feeds.fbcbelton.org/FirstBaptistBeltonSermons" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Sunday Evening Sermons Podcast" href="http://feeds.fbcbelton.org/FirstBaptistBeltonEveningSermons" />

]]> By: Mickey http://www.matthewirvine.com/2008/10/23/de-stinkify-your-church-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1837 Mickey Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:35:56 +0000 http://www.matthewirvine.com/?p=339#comment-1837 Any way to help WebSite Grader find the right content? We scored a 79, but it docked us for not having a blog (we do, linked from the home page) and not having an RSS feed (we have a handful of them, including the blog). Any way to get a proper score? Should I rework some code to make it easier for WG to autodetect the blog? Any way to help WebSite Grader find the right content? We scored a 79, but it docked us for not having a blog (we do, linked from the home page) and not having an RSS feed (we have a handful of them, including the blog). Any way to get a proper score? Should I rework some code to make it easier for WG to autodetect the blog?

]]> By: Jason Reynolds http://www.matthewirvine.com/2008/10/23/de-stinkify-your-church-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Jason Reynolds Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:31:18 +0000 http://www.matthewirvine.com/?p=339#comment-1819 Loving this bit: "The problem is that you can’t buy a successful Web presence - it’s an ongoing investment." The beauty of the statement is that it represents so well that it takes sacrifice to do church websites well, and we aren't just talking money. In fact, with enough investment of time, talent, and focus, you barely need money. Great post and thanks for the backlink. Look forward to checking more to reading more of your stuff. Loving this bit: “The problem is that you can’t buy a successful Web presence – it’s an ongoing investment.”

The beauty of the statement is that it represents so well that it takes sacrifice to do church websites well, and we aren’t just talking money. In fact, with enough investment of time, talent, and focus, you barely need money. Great post and thanks for the backlink. Look forward to checking more to reading more of your stuff.

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