Web Ministry News
News and information pertaining to the running of this and other ministry websites at RLC.
More Improvements
Posted: August 31, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
Tags: 404 error, search, slide rotator
- Improved search functionality and display (http://www.churchthatcares.org/?s=Pastor+Steve)
- New 404 error page (http://www.churchthatcares.org/g)
- New Slide rotator on the front page for non-members (http://www.churhthatcares.org)
Enjoy.
Now With Tag “Storm”
Posted: August 30, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
Tags: tag cloud, tag storm, tags
A new and improved tag “cloud” at the bottom right corner of the website now has a link to the tag “storm”. While the bottom right will host the 30 most used tags, the tag “storm” will have all of the tags ever used on the site.
More Site Adjustments
Posted: August 23, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
Tags: church website
You will probably notice some slight improvements to the site over the next couple of weeks. It was time for some maintenance and some improvement. All of the changes are in the hopes of getting more people involved in adding content.
Facelift for Rez Jnr
Posted: May 23, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
Minor facelift for the RezJnr.com site…
Web Statistics
Posted: February 21, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
The web team has spent quite a bit of time over the past year working hard to ensure that this website’s efforts have not been wasted. Search engine optimization is key to our church because we must take advantage of the free services available to us in search engines. In other words, we must be found.
Here is how we rank on searches of Google as of February 21, 2008. We are search result:
- 1 for “church spring tx”, “resurrection lutheran church”
- 27 for “lutheran church texas”
- 33 for “spring tx”
- 41 for “lutheran church”
Our site has been given a Google page rank of 4/10.
We have averaged 80 visitors/day for the last 30 days.
We have some paid advertising (about $50.00/month worth) that is bringing in 10% of the traffic to the site.
New Site Changes
Posted: February 17, 2008
Category: Web Ministry News
Tags: template, theme, wordpress
A little explanation for what is going on with the new church website (for the closet geeks amongst us)…
This update was due. The old site (still available, by the way, at http://rlchome.org) was based on an open source software project called XOOPS. This project’s days are numbered because of bickering between the lead programmers and slow progress of updates. This did not bode well for the future of our large site. It was also hard for a novice to keep the site updated.
I made the decision to switch us over to Wordpress 2.3. this open source project is thriving and growing. They have done some cool things in the last couple of years to make it easy to manipulate and modify. the best part is, almost all of the modifications are to the theme files, not the root of the software. So, I took a fairly simple theme, and starting hacking into it. What resulted is a custom Resurrection solution that I hope can last us for several years.
ChurchThatCares.org Gets a Facelift
Posted: February 12, 2008
Category: News, Web Ministry News
Comments: 0 Comments
Tags: new website, wordpress
As you might have noticed, our website has recently undergone a change in appearance. The appearance might be different, but the way the site functions will remain much the same. This change will not effect your username and password.
The reason for this change was to ensure that we could keep a quality site for years to come. We hope to continue to give you access to all of the information that is available as soon as it is available in an easy to find, user friendly way. Thanks for your patience.
Launch of New Sr High Youth Site
Posted: July 30, 2007
Category: Web Ministry News
Now supporting the Sr. High ministry, Teenz Inc, with their brand new website! Check it out here: http://teenz4god.com
Launch of new Jr High Ministry Site
Posted: July 24, 2007
Category: Web Ministry News
RezJnr.com is the new updated home of the Junior High ministry, RezJnr. Their site was made using Wordpress.
CoolChurchWebsites.com
Posted: July 20, 2007
Category: Web Ministry News
Tags: coolchurchwebsites.com
ChurchThatCares.org is now one of the featured sites on CoolChurchWebsites.com. This site showcases church websites deemed to be the “coolest”.
This should drive significant traffic to our website.
