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.

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:

• Summer Memory Work Challenge
• How to Make Google Photos Work for You

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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