Archive of "Web Design" Category
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Custom Facebook Designs for Churches
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Todd Hiestand v7.0
If you are a visitor to my website and not just reading this through my RSS feed, you’ll notice my blog has some new clothes. Okay, so I know what you are thinking. Another blog design? …
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Advice on Working with Web Designers
Most of my readers will know that I support my work as a pastor with two other jobs. I work at Starbucks part-time for the benefits for my family and then I spend about 20 hours a week …
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It’s Official: I’m Going Back to Starbucks
It’s hard to believe but I have been a pastor at The Well for about nine years now. In those years, I’ve served at The Well on a part-time-paid basis. This has been an intentional model for us as …
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343design Redesign
I redesigned my freelance web design portfolio this week. I’m really happy with how it turned out. Take a look: http://www.343design.com. If you know people who are looking for some web work I’d be honored if you sent …
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A New Blog Design
This weekend on the airplane I got inspired to give my blog a bit of a makeover. I stuck with the same colors and even the same background but really tried to simplify things a bit. I am …
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Design Refresh and New Site Icon
The past month or so I have been working a new design job as a semi-long term contractor for design company. I’ve been working hourly so its easy for me to slip into the temptation to work all the time …
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Mailing List Subscription Stupidity
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My Workspace
One of the nice things about my line of work (pastor / freelance webdesigner) is that I get to … -
A Few New Website Launches
I’ve been slaving away on a few websites. A couple of them are done and a few of them are a few days away from launch.
But, I wanted to draw your attention to a few sites that I not …
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New Front Page Layout
If you visit my site much you’ll notice that I have a new layout here on the front page. I am still getting to the sub-pages but I wanted to see how this worked out in reality before I …
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Comments are Back
For some reason my comments weren’t working the last two days. Someone finally brought it to my attention so now I realize that you all don’t hate me.
Phew.
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Free Lean and Clean Wordpress Theme
I’ve decided to make the WordPress Theme I developed available for free. I’ve really benefited from so many free themes out there early on that I figured it would be kind to give something back to the WordPress Community. …
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My “Lean and Clean” Wordpress Theme Released
I have officially released my first Wordpress theme called “Lean and Clean.” I’ve been developing in Wordpress for over 4 years and early on I had the hardest time finding a good, solid and functioning wordpress theme to use on …
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Testing Out My New WordPress Theme
If you are looking at an orange and black theme, that means you are now looking at the Wordpress theme I am developing for release to the public. I have it on here because I want to give …
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Does Disorganization Kill You?
No, not literally. I guess it could do that, if, like, you are so disorganized that you forget where you live and starve to death or something. But, I’ve come to realize recently that I am way too disorganized in …
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Is my feed broken?
For all of you who read my blog from my RSS feed, can you do me a favor and click over and leave me a comment and let me know that you are getting my feed updates? I hear a …
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Why and How I Use Twitter
I’ve been using Twitter for quite a while now. I, like most people, signed up and then didn’t use it for a few months but a while back I started using it more and more. For those of you …
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Speaking of Shiny New Things
On a whim tonight, I made some major modifications to my blog design. I did a bunch of things….
The Site width is now 960px instead of 1000px. I hope …
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I Sold this Blog to Google for $1,000,000
Okay, another overstatement of a title. But, I am now sporting some ads on my blog. What’s this world coming to? Next thing you know my kids will be paid to wear companies names on their clothing…oh, wait, …










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