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Austin Love Ministries Website Launch

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Website Development :: Church

Lynn Media Group launches new website for Central Texas church. Austin Love Ministries is located on South Congress Avenue in Austin.

lynn media groupaustinloveministries.org – Like many nonprofit and community outreach websites, the former website for Austin Love Ministries was “static” — basic HTML without a blog component or platform to allow church members to login and easily make updates. It did not take much convincing by Lynn Media Group to move the organization to the WordPress platform for the new website design. Given budget constraints, Lynn Media Group opted to customize a child theme based on the Modularity theme by Graph Paper Press.

Church members were thrilled with the theme’s built in features, namely the home page slider, where large photographs appear in sequence. The Austin-based non-denominational church is proud of their diverse membership and wanted to feature this aspect of their ministry. The base and child themes were originally designed for photographers, but as one can see, with code and visual customizations, it was a nice fit for a growing ministry as well. Upcoming features of the website include live webcasting of Sunday church services.

Austin Love Ministries has an active Facebook page and YouTube channel. Since the launch of the new website, members can login and post new photos and videos to the website from these social media channels. The primary components of the ministry are audio and video. The group hopes to add podcasts in the future as well. Lynn Media Group also facilitated a variety of training sessions to help church members get accustomed to the WordPress platform and build a strategy for sharing and updating content between the social media platforms.

Website design: Lynn Media Group
Website development: Lynn Media Group WordPress
Total cost: Under $500
Lynn Media Group is user-centered website design and technology group that operates out of Austin, Texas. The founder, Colleen Lynn, is a veteran user interface designer and social activist. Learn more about our website development services.

‘In Memory of’ Anniversary Website Launch

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Website Development :: Spiritual Advice

Lynn Media Group launches book website that honors the ten-year anniversary of an early interactive subscription-based website from 2001.

website designRuneCast.com – The original RuneCast.com, which operated from 2001 to 2005, was a spiritual advice website whose target audience was women between 25-45 years old. It was a free and subscription-based interactive website where users could ask a question, cast the runes in a variety of different layouts and receive a reading. Subscribing members could save their casts and access the full General and Relationship meanings of the runes instead of being limited to the partial meanings offered to free users.

Other free features included sending a rune card to a friend and spelling your name in runes.

Closing the website was a sad day, but like many websites back then and still today, RuneCast.com could not achieve a profitable working model. In part subscription-based websites, as RuneCast.com was, and full subscription-based websites continue to have a low survival rate on the Internet today and remain heavily dependent on advertising sales or content partnerships that deliver significant traffic resources. Some of the messages sent in by users after the website’s closure in early 2005 include:

  • “Thank you very much for the runecast site. It spoke to my soul … Your generous and sensitive spirit touched many.” – Namaste.
  • i loved runecast!!!! i miss it!!! it was an awesome site, and i’m sad to see it go. A new dawn, a new day…it’s not over. – A faithful fan
  • RuneCast gone? Like, forever?! Oh, please tell me it’s not so!!!!!!!!!! -Bereft in KY
  • Your wise words have been a real guide and support. Something special, spiritual and meaningful. The changes are permanent.” – James
  • It was a beautiful site that contained a lot of wisdom and it will be missed.

Over six years later, past fans of the website still find the founder online and request a copy of the original General and Relationship rune meanings. So in 2011, the founder published a book and placed it for sale in the Lulu.com market. Lynn Media Group built a quick website — using graphics from the original RuneCast.com website — to help support these book sales. By customizing Freedream2010 by Madzzoni built on Twenty Ten, Lynn Media Group was able to easily recreate aspects of the original design.

Website Design: Lynn Media Group
Website Development: Lynn Media Group WordPress
Total cost: Under $500
Lynn Media Group is user-centered website design and technology group that operates out of Austin, Texas. The founder, Colleen Lynn, is a veteran user interface designer and social activist. Learn more about our website development services.