451 – Getting Ready for Mobile

The month-long WELSTech series on “mobile ministry” concludes this week with some considerations for your growing digital audience of mobile device users. Are you serving up a great web experience for those smartphone and tablet users? We discuss a number of tools and templates that will help you to do just that.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 30:15 — 27.7MB)

The discussion:

Responsive design – Martin and Sallie finish up the June focus on mobile ministry with a discussion of web design that looks good on every screen size.

W3Schools Responsive Web tutorials
Browser Mobile Emulator
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Edge
Sample Responsive sites
- Grace, Falls Church, VA (FinalWeb)
- Martin Luther College (WordPress)
- WELS.net (WordPress)
Church WordPress Themes – ChurchThemes.com

WELS now:

Read about Naomi Green’s contributions to the WELSTech Photo Challenge in the July issue of Forward in Christ magazine, page 22 (sneak peek).

There’s still time to participate in the June challenge. Share your photos of travel and vacation, VBS and Matthew 11:29.
The July challenge will be summer, outreach and Isaiah 52:7.
Visit the challenge album!

Picks of the week:

Community feedback:

St. Marcus, Milwaukee, is looking for a Production Manager
Uber
Mobizen – Sample on the Academia Cristo site
Cellphone survey

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 452 – In July we’ll be talking about all aspects of online security, and we plan to start the conversation next week with a discussion on a topic we all know and love, passwords. Release date: Wednesday, July 6

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