Colors in ALPS 3.x
Something that many people appreciate about ALPS is the variety of color themes available. It connects back to one of our key underlying principals of “Customization”. Each site has the option of using one of seven…
ALPS for WordPress in Multiple Languages
Since the start of the Adventist Living Pattern System (ALPS), we have always envisioned that it needed to work with other languages. We have supported right-to-left languages of day one. We have worked to make…
WordPress in Other Languages
As we began developing the Adventist Living Pattern System, one of our underlying core values was that the work we did would work in other languages. Our church is a global church and the needs…
Sabbath School and Personal Ministries
When you have been working on a project for a long time, it’s exciting to see it come to life. The Adventist Living Pattern System has been in development and planning for a long time,…
Presenting the Adventist Living Pattern System
After so much planning, research, anticipation and work, I’m excited to get to show off the new Adventist Living Pattern System (ALPS). While it’s not perfectly finished (it probably never will be), it’s time to…
Logo Treatments
As we have been building Adventist Living Pattern System (ALPS), something that has continued to come up is the topic of logos. The logo is an important element in the branding of any organization, including…
ALPS on Adventist Church Connect
This last week I spend two days with a group of communicators and developers working on Adventist Church Connect (ACC). ACC provides church websites for the North American Division (NAD) to every church that wants…
Adventist Living Pattern System
As we approached the kickoff of this project, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what we call what we are doing. When it was launched, it was called the “Adventist Design Framework”. But…
Who We Are Building For
In the early discussions of this project with Superfriendly, Dan Mall encouraged that we start this project by doing user research. They wanted to talk with 15-20 people who would be using the end product.…