Geeks and God Podcast

On today's Geeks and God podcast we launch into the realm of print design. Postcards, Brochures, Newsletters, and Banners are all discussed and analyzed in an attempt to give you some tips on improving your church image.

We talk about color, bleed, resolution and some tools for creating your print designs. We break down design types (text based, image driven, raster or vector) and talk about the appropriate software for designing each. As you may expect, we slam on MS Publisher and encourage you to use external professional print companies. We also talk branding, spacing, fonts, readability and much more...

But, before all that, we ask the big question: "Who are YOU on the internet?" when we talk about our online persona.

Today, as MF basks in the Hawaiian sun, we're stuck here, listening to another episode of Geeks and God....argh. But, alas, we try and make the best of it:

On this podcast we talk more about the design side of websites. We talk about why it's important to choose just the right color scheme for your website. We talk about raster vs. vector graphic. We talk UI and trends in web design (are they good or bad to follow?). We wrap it up by giving you a bunch of tools that you can use to make sure your site is lookin' good.

Before all this, however, we talk about Open ID and why it's good for the web. Join us, won't you?

Have you ever designed a website and thought, "This just doesn't look right." Have you wondered why people don't stick around at your site long enough to even get your message? If so, then this is the start of the series for you.

We start by diving into attractive website design and why it matters. From there we move into tips to become a better designer, fonts, layout, design styles, and more. If you've wanted to have a clean look like digg.com, a user interface like flickr, or a site that's as readable as Apple's, come check out this series on design.

Before we dive into such a deep topic we look into a situation that plagues both open source and many ministries.