Musings
Hello all;
Hope that your weeks have been keeping you busy but not to the point of getting exhausted. I am preparing for a speaking engagement this weekend and so this end of week is quite full for me.
I hope that you have gotten a chance to get into the forums. As we reported on earlier this week, MMM has entered into a partnership with Jesus 4 Life Ministries. One of the first things that has come from that partnership has been the opening of the forums under the Jesus 4 Life message board. Check it out and let's build with Jesus 4 Life to make a mark on the net in the name of our Lord.
One of the things that has been really pressing on me has been a redesign of MMM to being more reader friendly, and versatile. In some respects, I have wanted to redesign the site just out of the passion of designing a site. But also, I want to make sure that finding information and interacting with the MMM community is as seemless as it is visiting a new church and getting a hug.
To that end I've toyed with making a completly Flash site, but I know how some may not have the fastest computers, or even have accssiblity concerns. My main thing there being that this is the web, and your site is only as good as the people that can visit it. I have also a CSS-driven redesign (I know, tech speak but bear with me) but that too finds some issues depending on browsers and other concerns. I wish that it was easier to figure this part out, as I know what it should look like but getting there is always the hard part.
So please keep MMM in prayer. Even if new designs dont happen, or new partnerships are long ways off, I hope that magzine, blog, and information here would encourage you to think more seriously of the net as a platform for ministry. Not just in places that have the net, but even in those places where having the net is a far off thought, and education and empowerment needs to happen before anything else.
Hope that your weeks have been keeping you busy but not to the point of getting exhausted. I am preparing for a speaking engagement this weekend and so this end of week is quite full for me.
I hope that you have gotten a chance to get into the forums. As we reported on earlier this week, MMM has entered into a partnership with Jesus 4 Life Ministries. One of the first things that has come from that partnership has been the opening of the forums under the Jesus 4 Life message board. Check it out and let's build with Jesus 4 Life to make a mark on the net in the name of our Lord.
One of the things that has been really pressing on me has been a redesign of MMM to being more reader friendly, and versatile. In some respects, I have wanted to redesign the site just out of the passion of designing a site. But also, I want to make sure that finding information and interacting with the MMM community is as seemless as it is visiting a new church and getting a hug.
To that end I've toyed with making a completly Flash site, but I know how some may not have the fastest computers, or even have accssiblity concerns. My main thing there being that this is the web, and your site is only as good as the people that can visit it. I have also a CSS-driven redesign (I know, tech speak but bear with me) but that too finds some issues depending on browsers and other concerns. I wish that it was easier to figure this part out, as I know what it should look like but getting there is always the hard part.
So please keep MMM in prayer. Even if new designs dont happen, or new partnerships are long ways off, I hope that magzine, blog, and information here would encourage you to think more seriously of the net as a platform for ministry. Not just in places that have the net, but even in those places where having the net is a far off thought, and education and empowerment needs to happen before anything else.
posted by Antoine @ 10/21/2005 12:35:00 PM
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