January Poll Results: Gotta Start Somewhere

Once again, a big thanks to everyone who participated in last month's poll. Sorry about getting to the results so late, but I started a new job this week and the change has kept me busy.

So, our results clearly show us that we've got a lot of people working on the early stages of their websites, which tend to go:

1. "Awesome! I made a website, and it doesn't look half bad."
2. "I learned how to do more things, and now the site looks like crap. Now I'll basically start over again and redesign!"

If you actually uttered those words in that order, no I'm not spying on you. I just pretty much said the same to myself several years ago when I was starting out.

Anyway, I'm encouraged by this because even though not a ton of people were focused on the "bleeding-edge" website trends, it's just nice to see more people actually taking a look at the importance of having a site, and the impression a site design can have on visitors. I'll take a couple dozen of those cases over a handful of podcasting and vidcasting upgrades (no offense to those guys who are focusing on that), because it means more churches are trying to lay solid foundations online and things will likely grow from there.

Regardless of how you voted, keep of the good work everyone!

This month's poll is a simple "Where in the world are you?" question. I've seen some trends in visitors in my Clustrmap, but that tracks visits and not people, so I'd like to get an idea of where y'all are coming from to make sure I'm not missing any important topics that I need to cover in the international theatre! Make sure to swing by the main IJHAW page to vote!