James & Carolanne

Power to Change in French and Chinese

I thought I would post a quick update on what I've been working on lately for those who might be interested.  Be warned, there is some "geek talk" ahead. One of the cool projects that I have the opportunity to work on these days is the rebuilding of our French and Chinese sites as new Power to Change sites. This not only gets us out of the obsolete software we had previously been using, but...

Website Design Tips Blog Announcement

Website Design Tips is a brand new blog that I have just started, the purpose of which is to inform website designers, programmers and CSS coders of the latest and greatest tips, tricks and strategies in website design. My desire is to help webmasters to be informed of and use the best possible tools in the creation of their websites, helping to "make the Internet a better place." My background, and the areas in which...

CCC in Orlando, FL

For those of you who hadn't heard, I recently went on a business trip with a couple of my coworkers, to the CCC Headquarters in Orlando, Florida. We went down in order to discuss and work through some of the details of a transition that we are making into a new software system that they have designed. This system will help with the matching of the 5000+ emails that we receive each month off of...

New Website: Spanish Power to Change

TruthMedia has just launched www.poderparacambiar.com, the Spanish version of Power to Change, which is the first of a series of websites that TruthMedia will be producing in many of the major languages. Using testimonies and a simple Gospel presentation, the website is very focused on leading people to Christ and giving them basic follow up. Our website, www.powertochange.com was a key ministry component during the Power to Change campaigns across Canada and in places like...

Davinci Blog Ad Boycotted

Recently, in response to the movie "The Da Vinci Code", our team has been working to build a website which would allow people to come and discuss their thoughts on the movie/book and hopefully to engage with us in spiritual discussions. Part of this initiative involved the purchase of an ad spot in theatres before showings of the movie. The ad spot simply advertized an opportunity to "Seek the Truth" with a link to www.discussdavinci.com....

Preparing for Staff Conf. 2005

As we're getting ready for driving down to staff conference, I can't help but wonder what kinds of things are going to go wrong with the websites while we're gone. Things seem pretty stable right now, except for the fact that we have a potential hacker, but it seems that there are always problems which come up at the worst of times. I guess it's sort of a pessemistic perspective, to be worried about what...