Being a “mega-church” has it’s perks…cool buildings, great music, great messages, and thousands of people to join in community with.
But, being a “mega-church” also has its issues.
One of the biggest issues that our Web Team faces is being bombarded with “How did you do _____?” questions. Please don’t misunderstand me here, we LOVE helping other church leaders find their way in the crazy World Wide Web, but literally answering 50-100 phone calls and emails a week regarding “How’d ya do that?” was getting a bit much.
Now, this may seem simple to you (and why we haven’t done this sooner, I’ll never know!), but we have created a FAQs page to direct people to when they have specific questions. This page will be available very soon, and we will be happy to point everyone to it! I will even be changing my voice mail to say the following:
You have reached Amber Castleberry with North Point Ministries. If you have a question regarding how our Web Team has created or designed any portion of our website, please go to this URL _________ where you will most likely find your question (and many more) answered. All other inquiries, please leave a message. Thanks, and have a great day!
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Please check back soon to find our shared FAQs page. And, if you have a question…feel free to drop one in the comments section - it may just end up being answered very soon!
January 26th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
We are currently building a new site. Yes, our old one is OLD! I attended the Ministry 2 conference where John spoke in Pensacola last October. I’m not a tech person, but I have enough knowledge to guide the discussions. We are interested in knowing how NorthPoint transitions pictures on the front page without using Flash. This is huge with iphones and palm phones because Flash hoses us the process of getting on the page or doesn’t display at all especially in Blackberries. Can we have your secret? thanks, KW
January 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Kimberly -
We are using jQuery quite a bit on our sites, and there are a lot of plugins out there for image slideshows and carousels. A quick search will return many different options for you. I also refer you to our post on jQuery for some of the specific plugins we’re using on our sites.
January 27th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Thank you, Russell. This is a big help.