Category Archives: development

development

Easily Add Speech Input To Your Search Fields

Unfortunately, this only works in Chrome, but it’s super simple and easy to implement.  All you need to do is add an x-webkit-speech attribute to the proper input element.

With JQuery, we can target an input dynamically, and add in the attribute using the attr(); method. Since the attribute doesn’t require a value, we’ll need to pass the webkit speech …

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Unique Conformity Development

Unique Conformity is a ministry based out of Colorado that needed a website.  My good friend Ben Mercuri designed the site, and I did the WordPress integration.

For a bit of extra flair, I included some CSS3 transitions, box-shadow, and opacity on the drop-down menus.  The WordPress integration also included tweaking the “custom background” feature so the background on the homepage …

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Better Title Tags In Ekklesia 360

I’ve been the primary user and manager of our Ekklesia 360 site for a couple of years now. It’s a nice system, especially for large churches because it includes very useful functionality right out of the box.

However, as functional and useful as some of the features are, optimizing your site for search engines and user navigation can be a …

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WSC Email Newsletter Redesign

I’ll spare you the gory details, but our email newsletter used to be the typical church email newsletter, over 4,000px long, comic sans, you name it. We needed something cleaner, simpler, and more organized.

We also used to send a TON of emails. Before we enacted a communications plan, we gave the whole staff unfettered access to our Constant …

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