There has been a lot of news recently about HTML5 and the use of video. Apple is endorsing a codec (a way of encoding video) called h.264, but with any new technology it is important to understand the licensing issues involved and to make sure your church is not breaking any type of licensing requirements.  After the break I will walk you h.264 and what to expect if you are posting videos to your church website.

I have been going back and forth about this for a month. I have decided to merge my personal blog and church website ideas. It is just too hard to try and run two blogs when most of the content I want to share would go on both sites. So you should be able to access this site now through churchwebsiteideas.com and beardedblog.com. The site content will focus on my design experiences, thoughts, and how that can affect the churches online presence. Enjoy!

This morning I emailed Steve Jobs. My full time job is designing and developing flash ads and I wanted to make sure that I am preparing myself as a designer/developer for Apple’s new iAd platform. So I emailed Steve to see if the new iAds platform would allow full HTML5 animations or if we can only use HTML5 to display video based ads. Looks like we will be able to use complete HTML5 for our ads. Full email after the break.

I bought an iPad this weekend. I had to wait 2 hours in line.

Would I wait in line for two hours to get in to a church service? No.

There’s a problem with that. What do you think?

Everyday, I try to bring you a free item to use for your website, in your church, or for any project you might have! Today is a free high quality video loop from the great folks over at Videohive!

I am a little behind on this one but Videohive has a great high quality video loop for their free video file of the month. Make sure to get it here.

Enjoy!