A Sea Of Red

Our church is currently revamping its website, and I saw this one and it's basically become the standard to which I think all churches should be compared.

http://evangelcathedral.net/

You have to watch for at least five minutes with your speakers turned up to get the full effect.

ugh. WAY too much going on on that main page. If I was ADHD, there's no way I could focus on anything.

Won't even show up on my phone

Wow.

full LULZ here. its now on my list of places to visit.

If that is the standard, then all churches have sold their selves to the devil. If I hired someone to design a website and they came back with this garbage, I'd print out the directions to the closest welfare office so they can go ahead and start applying for unemployment.

1) It's all in flash
2) It doesn't work on modern mobile devices because it's in flash
3) No mobile version of the website
4) Intro videos to a website are as antiquated as AOL
5) It bombards you with loud audio as soon as you get past the intro and buries the ability to turn off the audio with a tiny button in the bottom right corner
6) The flashiness of the website serves no functional purpose whatsoever
7) Animated graphics at the bottom? Is this 1998 when GIFs ruled the internet and every had to have them on their Angelfire website?
8) The links on the menu bring up little pop-ups with about a 50% transparent background, which doesn't exactly make it easy to read when you have all the unnecessary flashy crap in the background
9) Not one bit of text on that website can be copied and pasted into anything else
10) The contributions link doesn't even take you to an https website. Any organization with 1/10 a brain knows that you need to use https for anything dealing with online transactions or submission of private or personal information.

Some of you guys have been hanging around with BJ too much.

lynchburgwildcats wrote:If that is the standard, then all churches have sold their selves to the devil. If I hired someone to design a website and they came back with this garbage, I'd print out the directions to the closest welfare office so they can go ahead and start applying for unemployment.

1) It's all in flash
2) It doesn't work on modern mobile devices because it's in flash
3) No mobile version of the website
4) Intro videos to a website are as antiquated as AOL
5) It bombards you with loud audio as soon as you get past the intro and buries the ability to turn off the audio with a tiny button in the bottom right corner
6) The flashiness of the website serves no functional purpose whatsoever
7) Animated graphics at the bottom? Is this 1998 when GIFs ruled the internet and every had to have them on their Angelfire website?
The links on the menu bring up little pop-ups with about a 50% transparent background, which doesn't exactly make it easy to read when you have all the unnecessary flashy crap in the background
9) Not one bit of text on that website can be copied and pasted into anything else
10) The contributions link doesn't even take you to an https website. Any organization with 1/10 a brain knows that you need to use https for anything dealing with online transactions or submission of private or personal information.

this may be the greatest single response i've ever seen here on flamefans. Alumnus i thank your for putting forth the vehicle from whose trunk this post fell from.

lynchburgwildcats wrote:If that is the standard, then all churches have sold their selves to the devil. If I hired someone to design a website and they came back with this garbage, I'd print out the directions to the closest welfare office so they can go ahead and start applying for unemployment.

1) It's all in flash
2) It doesn't work on modern mobile devices because it's in flash
3) No mobile version of the website
4) Intro videos to a website are as antiquated as AOL
5) It bombards you with loud audio as soon as you get past the intro and buries the ability to turn off the audio with a tiny button in the bottom right corner
6) The flashiness of the website serves no functional purpose whatsoever
7) Animated graphics at the bottom? Is this 1998 when GIFs ruled the internet and every had to have them on their Angelfire website?
The links on the menu bring up little pop-ups with about a 50% transparent background, which doesn't exactly make it easy to read when you have all the unnecessary flashy crap in the background
9) Not one bit of text on that website can be copied and pasted into anything else
10) The contributions link doesn't even take you to an https website. Any organization with 1/10 a brain knows that you need to use https for anything dealing with online transactions or submission of private or personal information.

That site's too flashy for me. Very cheesy...It makes the pastor looks like an Internet-vangelist.

It makes me nauseous.

lynchburgwildcats wrote:If that is the standard, then all churches have sold their selves to the devil. If I hired someone to design a website and they came back with this garbage, I'd print out the directions to the closest welfare office so they can go ahead and start applying for unemployment.

1) It's all in flash
2) It doesn't work on modern mobile devices because it's in flash
3) No mobile version of the website
4) Intro videos to a website are as antiquated as AOL
5) It bombards you with loud audio as soon as you get past the intro and buries the ability to turn off the audio with a tiny button in the bottom right corner
6) The flashiness of the website serves no functional purpose whatsoever
7) Animated graphics at the bottom? Is this 1998 when GIFs ruled the internet and every had to have them on their Angelfire website?
The links on the menu bring up little pop-ups with about a 50% transparent background, which doesn't exactly make it easy to read when you have all the unnecessary flashy crap in the background
9) Not one bit of text on that website can be copied and pasted into anything else
10) The contributions link doesn't even take you to an https website. Any organization with 1/10 a brain knows that you need to use https for anything dealing with online transactions or submission of private or personal information.

hahahahahaahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Humble_Opinion wrote:That site's too flashy for me. Very cheesy...It makes the pastor looks like an Internet-vangelist.

It reminds me of the kind of websites you see people make to scam people out of money. Maybe that's why the contributions page isn't https!

thepostman wrote:

lynchburgwildcats wrote:If that is the standard, then all churches have sold their selves to the devil. If I hired someone to design a website and they came back with this garbage, I'd print out the directions to the closest welfare office so they can go ahead and start applying for unemployment.

1) It's all in flash
2) It doesn't work on modern mobile devices because it's in flash
3) No mobile version of the website
4) Intro videos to a website are as antiquated as AOL
5) It bombards you with loud audio as soon as you get past the intro and buries the ability to turn off the audio with a tiny button in the bottom right corner
6) The flashiness of the website serves no functional purpose whatsoever
7) Animated graphics at the bottom? Is this 1998 when GIFs ruled the internet and every had to have them on their Angelfire website?
The links on the menu bring up little pop-ups with about a 50% transparent background, which doesn't exactly make it easy to read when you have all the unnecessary flashy crap in the background
9) Not one bit of text on that website can be copied and pasted into anything else
10) The contributions link doesn't even take you to an https website. Any organization with 1/10 a brain knows that you need to use https for anything dealing with online transactions or submission of private or personal information.

hahahahahaahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

and that folk is why you haven't banned me! haha

who know that you and BJ were so much alike!!!???

The intro is how I imagine all websites are in Japan. Activate subtitle! *transformer sound effects*

I tried to figure out where this church was (MD) and actually having to navigate the site requires very deliberate concentration. It's a chore.

LUconn wrote:The intro is how I imagine all websites are in Japan. Activate subtitle! *transformer sound effects*

I tried to figure out where this church was (MD) and actually having to navigate the site requires very deliberate concentration. It's a chore.

ITS NOT IN HTTPS DUDE AND WHO USES FLASH ANYMORE

ANIMATED GRAPHICS AT THE BOTTOM!!!!!! WHAT DECADE IS THIS?!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Why are you yelling?

I went to the website listed and it nearly gave me a seizure!

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BJWilliams wrote:Why are you yelling?

sorry. is this better?