For those running on our WordPress-based easy web site service, we’re in the process of upgrading you all to WordPress 3.1. I’m also looking at your plugin list and replacing WP-SpamFree with WP-HashCash for performance reasons. And for those hosted on DreamHost (the majority of you), we’re upgrading to PHP 5.3 and adding the page
Websites: What You Say Matters
In the last article we started thinking about the web site’s mission, and just asked the question, “how will they find your website?” It’s not like I didn’t think about the purpose of the websites I previously worked on. I just thought it was rather obvious. We wanted it to be a resource for members
Introduction to Websites
It seems that everyone wants a website these days, but to what end? What is it that you want your website to do for you? What steps can you take to make it an effective tool for your church? I’ve wanted for some time to write a series on websites–design tips, content and marketing. While
Computer Security Fundamentals
Richard Kissel is a GCI pastor who works for the government at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Computer Security Division for the Small Business Community. The NIST offers a small (20 page) PDF on information security for small businesses, which he and the IT department feel could also be very helpful
gci.org – what do you think?
www.gci.org is now alive and well! Check it out, then compare it to the venerable www.wcg.org. Finally, take our simple 1 question poll!
What About Windows 7?
A few pastors have expressed interest in Windows 7. In our opinion, Windows 7 is a good product, and if you are getting a new computer, you should get Windows 7 on it instead of Windows Vista or XP. Windows 7 seems more stable and faster than Vista, but it’s still new, so less is
New local church web site URL
The way it looks now, gcichurches.org has won the survey, so we’ll plan to go with that. If you’re in a hurry to get rid of the “wcg” part of your URL, send an email to webmaster@gci.org and request to move to gcichurches.org. It would help to have the current URL since it’s sometimes difficult
Web site content tips
Pastor David Perry sent us a recent article on some things that will not impress people if they see them on your local church web site. Most of these suggestions are good to keep in mind. You may want to look at your own local web site and see if it measures up. Here’s a
Changing wcgweb.org
Well, it’s obvious that we need to change the wcgweb.org domain to somthing else for those of you who use it. Of course you also have the option of registering your own domain for your church or camp web site. For example, if yiou have a local church name, you may try to get a
Grace Communion International and website URL
Since changing our name to Grace Communion International, we get the question frequently, “Will we be changing our web address, and if so, when?” The short answer is “yes, but it’s a process.” While we have announced the new website URL to be www.graceci.org, we are looking at other possibilies. If we are able to