Ok, so I got a threatening letter from a lawyer. He was claiming to represent a client my friend and I do some web design work for. Big mess which all boils down to some serious miscommunication issues. Hopefully we’ll be able to get it all taken care of without resorting to more lawyers. Either way, it’ll be another first for me. I guess I should’ve expected it at some point in time doing design work. Live and Learn
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Free Group Text Messaging from your website
This is a simply amazing plug in for wordpress. If you run your church or youth group website on wordpress this could potentially save you $60 or more a year. As a youth minister I’ve tried various ways of keeping in contact with my students. I’ve gotten myself a facebook, signed up for twitter, log-in to msn/google chat on a regular basis, gotten a phonevite account (see post on phonevite), adn send group e-mails. Yet nothing can communicate with teens like txt can. At first I signed up for 300 txts a month, that was a bad idea. The few services I found charged a nominal amount per month. But then I realized that $5 a month still adds up to $60 for the year. So I was lef t with no idea what to do. How was I going to communicate with all my students on a regular basis easily? Wordpress came to save the day again. I found EasySMS which allowed me to integrate the system into my wordpress site and communicate with all my teens though the wordpress dashboard. It’s a really easy system to set up. Simply install the pgin and activate the system and the widget. Put the widget into your wordpress sidebar or footer and viola! it’s ready to use. You can then sign up and get started. EasySMS lets you put subscribers into groups and send any number of messages for free. Did you catch that last part FREE!!!. Check it out for yourself. Don’t have a wordpress site for your ministry? Check out ShareYourChurch.com or BanyanData.com to get started.
Free Wordpress Plugin SMS EasySMS Group Text Messaging from your website | Mister Nifty.
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How I got into web design
About a year ago I got a call from a buddy of mine. He was running a computer company known as Banyan Data and some of his clients were requesting web sites. He said he could build sites, but preferred not to. Next thing you know I’m on board with Banyan Data building a site for an extremely choosy client. Needless to say the project was completed, but we simply couldn’t handle the ongoing support for someone who needed massive changes each week. Other companies asked for our assistance so we started building sites, but were unable to render long term support to each site simply due to time constraints. We finally came up with a solution. We began designing sites utilizing Worpress. I can’t tell you how many problems this solved for us. I hope to fill this category with various Wordpress tips, and theme reviews. It’s been an interesting year with Banyan Data which includes launching ShareYourChurch.com. The journey has only just begun.
