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Web Design Standards
As a ministry, our web content is being viewed in more browsers, on more devices, and across more service providers than ever before. If we don’t design and implement with these considerations in mind, we will orphan those we intend to reach. We've created the Web Design Standards document to address some of these concerns.
Continue reading...Dragons, Unicorns, Embedded Video in Emails and other myths
15. April 2010
Every couple of months or so we get a request for embedding a video within an email. Our immediate reaction is to do a spit take (I think I actually did one once), so we wanted to let you know why this makes us shudder to think about. The answer will always be no, and [...]
Continue reading...Misunderstanding Chaucer - The April Fools Post
2. April 2010
According to Wikipedia, April Fool’s got its start due to a misunderstanding in one of Chaucer’s classic stories. Whatever the origin, it’s as close to Christmas as us geeks get in the springtime. This year we did something special for our staff. I wanted to hang one of these up in front of our copiers and [...]
Continue reading...Added Security in Gmail
25. March 2010
In its efforts to increase security Google has added a pretty neat new feature into Gmail. It seems that it isn’t available to us Google Apps customers yet, but I anticipate seeing it soon.
Continue reading...User Backups with Time Machine
16. March 2010
In a perfect world all company documents would be stored on a centralized file server/intranet that is backed up, easily restored and safe. Does this sound like your environment? Yeah mine neither. People keep them, in our case, on their laptops, so we have to provide a way to backup this data. For the longest time, we [...]
Continue reading...Fan Boy Musings
10. March 2010
As has been mentioned previously on this blog, we are big fans of the Apple platform. Ask 15 people across North Point why this is, and you will likely get 15 different answers. However, from an IT perspective there are two main reasons: It puts lots of creativity into the hands of our users. Sure, you [...]
Continue reading...The Google Apps Post
9. March 2010
This post is a long time in the making, but a recent article from Google renewed my passion for the topic, so I thought I would share our journey into the clouds with you. Step back with me, way back to 2002, when I began my employment here at North Point. At that time all of [...]
Continue reading...Why Validate?
26. February 2010
So I have spent some hours this week making sure that our web sites are "valid". This means going through and filling out "ALT" tags in images, making sure "INPUTS" have a trailing "/" at the end and that your randon "DIV" has a closing "DIV" to match it. What does that /really/ mean to my team? why does that matter? Well.. this is from the w3c site:
Continue reading...IT Power Team–Just for fun!
1. June 2009
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2. November 2010
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