Alps for WordPress coming – Tester Needed!
Note: The theme has been released and is available to download. This fall has been busier then I had expected, and as a result, the blogging here at Adventist.io has been light. But be assured,…
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,…
The ALPS CDN is Here
One of the core concepts of ALPS is to deliver the most up-to-date version of the pattern library to every website. As we considered this challenge, we quickly realized that if every website kept a…
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…
OKR 3: Involve the community
As we build and develop ALPS, our final measured objective is related to community: Involve the community in the creation and adoption of the pattern library. Throughout the course of the interviews and research that…
OKR 2: Allow for customization and individuality
As we set to define our objectives, we knew our second objective would be important for adoption because it helped people make it their own: Allow for customization and individuality in the new pattern library. How…
OKR 1: Create a foundational, deeply-rooted pattern library
As we talked about in the previous post, Measuring What We Do, the only way to know you have accomplished something is to create a goal, and then set measurable objectives to accomplish it. So for…
Measuring What We Do
If you want to accomplish something, you have to set a goal, and today I’d like to talk about initial goals we set for ALPS as we started this phase of the project. During the initial part of the engagement with Superfriendly, their research team talked with 25 different individuals from around the world that build…
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