If the events calendar on your website is sluggish, it might be because it’s carrying a lot of extra weight — dozens or even hundreds of pages describing events that have long passed and will never be repeated. In most cases, you can improve the calendar’s performance by getting rid…
Search for anything on Google, click on “Images,” and — voila! Thousands of images matching your search appear. It’s so easy to copy or save any of those images for use on your church website or blog or in your church email. It’s so tempting. Just don’t do it. The…
Do you pick up images for your church website, email, bulletin or flyers from Google? Or do you show movies (and sell tickets) without the permission of the films’ copyright owners? Or do you use music without a license, in Sunday services broadcast to the web? If your church can…
Friends of Ministry has trained hundreds of church staff members and volunteers to maintain websites. If you’re about to take responsibility for maintaining your church’s website, relax. Because your site is constructed with WordPress, it’s easy to keep your calendar and home page current. We’ll get you started with an…
Google’s recent changes in Gmail make it harder than ever for all of us, including churches, to reach our email subscribers. Once upon a time, nearly all email sent to anyone@gmail.com was delivered to a simple inbox. Now Google is sorting email for its users, and it’s sorting most email…
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