What is your tipping point?

“Often times a single act of courage, is the tipping point for something extraordinary.” – Andy Stanley

I chat with web design clients all the time about their website projects. We talk about website goals, budgets, features, competitors, and technology. Looking back at my conversations there are a few questions I wish potential clients would ask themselves before contacting me. By looking at these 5 simple questions, you can save a lot of initial back and forth time with any potential designer you might hire.

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This site is my new favorite. I am always looking for nice, clean, high quality patterns for my designs. Subtle Patterns gives you the ability to test out a pattern before you download it. It is awesome and you should check them out.

Subtle Patterns

I save just about every helpful web article I come across. At the end of the week, I would like to share the coolest ones with you. For some reason this week I spent a lot of time at Web Design Ledger, so 4 of the 5 are from their site.

Happy Friday!

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Since launching this blog I have had the chance to meet some great people and very interesting companies. Once again I want to highlight our sponsors, who are keeping us going and helping churches make their websites better!

  • iMinistries – Offers church websites and an iPhone app for your ministry.
  • Cheap Church Websites – Features affordable websites for ministries on a tight budget.
  • NetMinistry – Provides your church or ministry and online community.
  • Courtyard – Allows an easy way for you to get your church directory online!
  • Comf5 – Provides video and media hosting solutions for your church or ministry.
  • Bertolini Sanctuary Seating – Amazing seating provider for your church, their quality is unmatched!
  • Cloversites - High quality church websites that anyone can update.

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So I have no connection to Bundle Hunt, but whenever I see a pack like this for sale, I jump on it. The great thing about these packs are you can get a ton of cool tools and design stuff for a really cheap price. You can also enter to win an iPad 2 if you’re interested! Offer ends May 31st! Check them out!

Break down of what’s included after the break.

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Quotable: Seth Godin

Jesse Orndorff —  May 18, 2011 — 1 Comment

Are you trying to make a change? Will you accept the responsibility without anything else?

“Change is made by people who eagerly accept responsibility without expecting authority.” – Seth Godin

What are you trying to change? Let me know…

I always enjoy when people share the tools they use everyday to do their jobs. Today I am sharing with you a few of my favorite apps from my digital toolbox. As a small business owner, designer, developer, and missionary these are all tools I use to get my work done. These are in no order, and the costs I listed are what I have paid, even though most of these have some free plans.

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What are you passionate about?

“When people are passionate about what they do, they are far more effective in what they do.” – T.D. Jakes

This is our first in a series of content management system previews. Church Website Ideas is taking time to highlight content management systems that we come across that might work for your church website. Today we take a look at Simple CMS, a basic but very powerful CMS that offers some unique features!

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