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We are now live on our new Arena Church Management System! As we prepared for our rollout, we knew we needed to find a way to make certain that the ministry teams at all our campuses had the support they needed to hit the ground running on our new system. Yes, we did spend time training [...]
Continue reading...Training
14. May 2010
We recently finished a series of training days for our staff where we did preliminary training on our new Arena Church Management System. Everything we do seems to bring its own set of lessons to learn from, and this was no different. Here are some things that we discovered (or re-discovered) about training: As much as [...]
Continue reading...Moving 0s and 1s
26. March 2010
We have several big projects currently underway that have underscored the importance of accurate and complete data. For the past several months we have spent a lot of effort ensuring that our member and group data will be migrated correctly into our new Arena Church Management System. We’re also migrating to a new e-Commerce site [...]
Continue reading...To Upgrade or Not To Upgrade…
5. February 2010
If you’re anything like us, you’ve got more than enough work to keep your team busy. The appetite for web sites and applications continues to grow at a frenetic pace, and the ministry teams we support have no shortage of great ideas. And, of course, we all love to work on projects that come with [...]
Continue reading...Bombarded with questions? So are we.
7. December 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sidebar Feeds and Ajax
4. October 2009
We seem to be getting more and more requests to include RSS feeds from various blogs or social networking sites (mostly Twitter) on our various sites, so we have spent a little time checking out many of the plugins and source code that’s available all over the web. For the most part these plugins work [...]
Continue reading...Counting Down with jQuery
28. August 2009
We seem to be getting more and more requests recently for countdown timers on our websites, whether it’s counting down to the next KidStuf Live, the next Drive Conference, or the next service for North Point Online. If you’ve ever had to deal with calendars and dates you know that creating something automated can become [...]
Continue reading...Need a little play-time with that?
21. August 2009
All too often, we get caught up in to-dos, milestones, and deadlines. There’s always something to be done, and just when that something is finished…it’s time to start something else. On Monday of this week, the NP Web Team took the afternoon off. All of us. Together! We spent the afternoon playing. We went to a [...]
Continue reading...Summer Clean up
23. July 2009
As North Point Ministries continues to move toward a new church management system, our team has aggressively been cleaning up our data. Two big clean up searches are; duplicate search and the uninvolved search. The duplicate search uses our database to find people with the same last name and first name. It pulls them up side [...]
Continue reading...How do you process that?
13. July 2009
When people approach our team for a Web-based project, we send them through a detailed process. This process developed as our life-line, because, honestly, we were sinking. People were treating the Web department as a drive-thru service. Who could blame them? That’s how we operated. “You need a new website? OK. Next Tuesday? Uh, sure we [...]
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25. June 2010
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