Did you know that WordPress can display posts you have scheduled?
How awesome is that!
This would not only be cool for a band website that lists upcoming shows or events, but it would be great for bloggers who plan out and schedule blog posts ahead of time. What a great hook for returning blog readers to subscribe to your feed or come back, so they don’t miss one of your upcoming awesome blog posts.
Here’s how to do it:
Every year for the past five years, my church has “given” my town a fireworks display for Independence Day. It’s a pretty huge deal, and we always have a great response with our attendance averaging in the thousands. All in all, the event does well, but that’s because we put a lot into it.
One of our best moves yet was to purchase two mobile sound systems from B-52 Professional for use with this event. (We use one of them for smaller events throughout the year.)
We chose the Matrix-2000, which is a whole lot of awesome.
Business cards are your best resource for networking in person. It provides a little bit of contact information and if you are creative enough, a lot about the character of yourself or your company.
MOO, a creative printing company, has come up with a unique solution to getting the best business card designs you could need. They have capitalized on Facebook’s new timeline design to give you your own cards.
You may have figured it out by the title.
This is Street Fighter gone 8-bit style as Street Fighter turns Super Mario Bros.
Here’s all 12 main Street Fighter II characters:
Have you heard of T-Rex Trying… ?
It’s awesome.
T-Rex Trying is the “unfortunate trials of the tyrant Lizard King” by Hugh Murphy.
Here’s some more:
Musicians are a funny breed. All very similar yet entirely different. As a worship pastor, I am always trying duplicate and replicate the worship songs we lead while still maintaining our own unique voice. And this applies to vocalists, drummers, and guitarists.
I’m a self taught guitarist. I took a couple of lessons in Jr. High but I was more interested in playing rock songs instead of ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy!’ So I dropped out.
Music, for me, is a feeling and an emotion. I resonate with it and it moves me. There are times when I can sit down, listen to a song, and immediately start picking out each part. I can read music if I have to, but I’d rather just hear it and play it.
But not everyone is like that. Most folks need specific notes, tabs, or resources to learn their music. As the leader of a worship ministry, I am always trying to resources my band. And this costs money.
This isn’t a problem if you’ve got the extra cash to spend, but most of us are on tight budgets and this means we must get creative.
I dislike the traditional Church tract.
I have never been a fan of handing out tracts, fake million dollar bills or funny little mind games as a statement of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact, these little papers, booklets, etc have made me less motivated to actually witness to strangers because the way that these tracts have been poorly thought out.
Would somebody really want to listen to you explain the gospel on a fake dollar bill?
The answer, more often than not is, “No” – they could care less!
However, I have recently discovered a new type of tract called The Story from Spread Truth Ministries. They have even developed an iOS app for iPhone that allows you to share the tract on your mobile device.
Very nice and innovative!
As a photographer, I often have to send large files to clients. Emailing is out of the question and sometimes you can feel the “deer in the headlights” look in an email when you write,
“I’ll drop them on my server and you can come and grab them via FTP.”
There are sites such as YouSendit which work great, but unless you sign up for a paid plan, you’re limited to 100MB transfers. Those of us who are self-employed know we have to save all the pennies we can.
Thankfully, I found another solution and it’s terrific. It allows transfers of up to 2GB completely free.
Google engineer Bradley Horowitz (Vice President Product Management for Google+) announced on Thursday that Google+ is now officially open to teenagers! This announcement comes alongside new privacy and saftey features implemented to make sure that those teenagers who joined would have a safe sharing environment.
This is big news for those of us in Youth Minstry or any church who wants to get the most out of Google+! But before I get into that, let me explain just what the new security features are. Then we’ll get into some ways you can use Google+ to take mentoring and discipleship to a whole new level with Google+!
HTML5 and CSS3 are new and exciting and has lead to a number of solid templates to get started on web projects.
Here’s a new (that’s relative, isn’t it?) template worth taking a good look at:
HTML5 Reset
Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it’s time for our best practices to catch up, and we thought we’d put our files out there for everyone to use. By no means do we see this as the One True Way to start every project, but we think it’s a good starting place that anyone can make their own.
Some of the boilerplates that exist are on the heavy side, so if you’re looking for a nice, simple alternative, than this is what you’re looking for. Plus, they have a little something for those developing on WordPress, too!
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