Aug23

New Look for Worship Matters

Welcome to the new look of Worship Matters, designed by my son-in-law, Kerrin Russell.

Kerrin is married to my oldest daughter, Megan. Not only is he a godly husband and dad, he’s a true servant. It helps that he’s great at solving computer problems and fixing things. The most recent example is my blog site. Kerrin was the one who originally suggested I start a blog, and over the past year or so he’s been wanting me to update the look. Knowing that I’d never get to it, he did it himself. BTW, the pictures in the banner were taken by my 18 year old daughter, Brittany, who runs a design and photography business with her older sister, Megan.

We’re still working out some problems, but I think it will eventually better serve those of you who stop by. If you’re using Internet Explorer you may have some difficulties viewing everything correctly. We’re working to solve those issues. Some of the changes we’re making are:

  • a less cluttered look
  • a song player on the Music page
  • multi-lingual translation. Google translator enables the blog to be read in Italian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Czech, and Arabic. Just click one of the flags in the upper right hand corner. The translation is literal so it’s far from perfect. But I think it’s better than nothing.
  • when you click on a Scripture reference, you’ll immediately see the whole verse or passage. Click on the reference again and it goes away. Try it here: Col. 3:16-17.
  • colors come down when you move the cursor over one of the tabs up top. Not very functional, but cool.

Please let me know what you think about the new look, and if you find anything that’s not working.

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24 Comments »

  1. Your new website looks great.

    Comment by The Reformed Pastor — August 24, 2007 @ 9:53 am

  2. Looks great, Bob!
    Very clean and easy to read. (Good work, Kerrin!)

    Comment by Paul Martin — August 25, 2007 @ 11:36 am

  3. Looks fabulous! What no more picture of BOB?????????

    Comment by Allan — August 25, 2007 @ 2:31 pm

  4. Love the new site Bob.

    Just wondering, would it still be possible to put title and author on your reading lists?sometimes it’s almost impossible to read the little jpg’s of the front covers. (or that may be something techy that i’m missing?)

    Comment by matt blick — August 25, 2007 @ 2:38 pm

  5. Nicely done, especially the banner & menus. May I ask what software you used to create it? Thanks!

    Comment by BearPair — August 25, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

  6. BearPair,

    thanks. i used flash to create the banner & menus. the blog itself is run on wordpress.

    Comment by kerrin — August 25, 2007 @ 3:35 pm

  7. Matt Blick,

    you got it! done. great suggestion!

    Comment by kerrin — August 25, 2007 @ 5:35 pm

  8. But what about the picture of Bob???????

    Comment by Allan — August 27, 2007 @ 8:46 pm

  9. Allan,

    For those that enjoy looking at Bob’s picture, we have included it on the About page. It’s a new, not blue and happy picture which I’m sure you will enjoy.

    Comment by kerrin — August 27, 2007 @ 11:03 pm

  10. Looks nice. Really like the photography.
    FYI on your links page there’s a typeo under Desiring God Ministries and your description of Sovereign Grace Ministries is apparently cut off in mid-stream.

    Comment by ACF — August 28, 2007 @ 9:30 am

  11. Hey,
    Great work … aren’t redesigns fun? I’ve got Chris (from ChrisMoncus.com) redoing my site at HighestPraise.Com … finally, we’re moving all those static html pages into one big Wordpress-driven CMS site! can’t wait!

    For the Kingdom,
    Fred

    Comment by Fred McKinnon — August 28, 2007 @ 9:30 am

  12. Kerrin -

    Great job! What wordpress theme did you use or is this completely custom? I’m thinking of redesiging our church website and I like that big intro window you have in the front page with other blog entries in the bottom.

    Comment by Patrick — August 28, 2007 @ 10:31 am

  13. ACF,

    Thanks for the corrections. They’re fixed now.

    Comment by Bob Kauflin — August 28, 2007 @ 11:00 am

  14. Really like the look of the new site. I am an internet explorer user and thought i would let you know that when i click on to continue reading the blue line that has contact Bob, RSS feed writing in it cuts the page blocking a line of writing. Hope this isn’t too troublesome to fix - i know nothing!!!

    Comment by penny — August 28, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

  15. Wow! No more blue!! I think it looks great. Also, I am running Safari browser on a Mac, and I haven’t seen any errors.

    God’s grace to you,

    Ryan

    Comment by Ryan Rippee — August 28, 2007 @ 1:41 pm

  16. Penny,

    It should be working on Internet Explorer now. I’d try deleting your web page history. Go to Tools/Internet Options and Delete Files. That will delete all the copies of web pages you’ve stored. Then type in worshipmatters.com in the URL bar. See if that works.

    Comment by Bob Kauflin — August 28, 2007 @ 2:01 pm

  17. Patrick,

    Thanks! It is a completely custom theme. However i was originally inspired by the Hemingway Theme for Wordpress. It has a very simple home page giving you a good idea of what is available on the whole blog.

    Comment by kerrin — August 28, 2007 @ 5:16 pm

  18. Hey Bob, Is there any chance you could do a book review on Paul S. Jones’ book “Singing and Making Music”?

    Comment by Stephen F — August 28, 2007 @ 11:09 pm

  19. Most of the links on the first page don’t work for me. None of the top categories (About, Archives, etc.) or the ones at the bottom (Blogging to Worship God, Monday Devotions, etc.) will come up until I go to one of the links on the right side. Then everything seems to work all right.

    And I really miss the “recent comments” section that was on the left side of the old blog page. That way I could see comments that people had left on older posts without having to search through them.

    It looks nice, but I don’t find it as convenient. I liked having most stuff on the one page so that I wasn’t having to click on stuff as much. But I am a “like my ruts” kind of person.

    Comment by Lindele — August 29, 2007 @ 11:48 am

  20. Lindele,

    Thanks for your constructive criticism! What browser are you using? This would help to figure out what is not working right.

    How else is your index finger going to get a work out if not by clicking?

    I will try to figure out if there is a practical way to incorporate recent comments onto the home page. For now, because you asked so nicely, you will find the recent comments on the left hand side of any post page.

    Comment by kerrin — August 29, 2007 @ 4:45 pm

  21. Thank you, Kerrin! I’m using Mozilla Firefox. Sometimes (like when I use my bank’s billpay feature) I have to use Internet Explorer but I have all my bookmarks and stuff on Firefox.

    Comment by Lindele — August 29, 2007 @ 5:35 pm

  22. Lindele,

    You can now read recent comments once you open up any post. Kerrin is a can-do kind of guy.

    Comment by Bob Kauflin — August 29, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

  23. Wow - what service!

    Comment by Lindele — August 30, 2007 @ 8:15 am

  24. One flag on the right hand corner for Czech is China flag. You might want to correct that :)

    Comment by Dwi — September 6, 2007 @ 11:53 pm

  25. I am not a worshipleader but I like to read your posts and listen to the music. I think it is kind of funny to read your blog in french and german. Saddly it is not yet available in dutch… That would be funny for me. But I really think your website will be more a blessing to the global church since people can read it in their on lanuage. I will certainly comment it!

    Comment by Talitha Cocquyt Belgium — September 7, 2007 @ 3:35 pm

  26. Sorry for the spelling mistakes… I mean: ‘their OWN language’ and ‘I will certeinly recommend it’. But I still don’t know if this good english. Excuse me, it is noth my mother tongue.

    Comment by Talitha Cocquyt Belgium — September 7, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

  27. DWI,

    Thanks for letting us know about the mistake on the flags. We fixed it.

    Comment by Bob Kauflin — September 7, 2007 @ 4:15 pm

  28. Talitha,

    Thanks for reading the blog! I know that the translations aren’t very good, but hopefully they’re better than nothing at this point. I’ll check into getting a Dutch translator as well.

    Also, please feel free to tell your worship leader about Worship Matters if you think it will be helpful.

    And you speak English much better than I speak Dutch.

    Comment by Bob Kauflin — September 7, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

  29. Thank you for answering my comment!

    Comment by Talitha Cocquyt — September 11, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

  30. I think my favorite feature of the new website (even more than the cool color bands that come down when you scroll over the menus) is the that Bible passages are displayed when you click on the references. That is so convenient and helpful. I wish there were a way to include this feature in books, but until then I’ll just keep reading the new and improved worshipmatters.com.

    Comment by Aaron Campbell — September 12, 2007 @ 10:23 am

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