Cornerstone Church has a new website. This new site features external links to an event calendar, Flickr and Pastor Derek Vreeland’s own blog, as well as podcast of weekly sermons via WordPress and the PodPress plugin. The new site could be described as “organic” in appearance featuring conrete and torn paper backgrounds.

This site also features Microformats embedded in the footer of each page which, if you are on the cutting edge, allow you to add the contact information directly to yor address book or get a map from Google or Yahoo.

This time of year, everything is about “back-to-school.”

Clothing. Sales. Frequent trips to Office Depot. Even computer purchases.

This year, back to school has taken on a whole new meaning as I have made some career decisions. For the first time in over fifteen years I am not employed in the design industry. Instead, I have made the decision—after much thought and prayer—to become a teacher.

I am teaching web design and computer graphics at Westminster Academy, a Christian school founded in 1971 by Dr. D. James Kennedy. I just finished my second week and it has been exciting. It is a perfect way to unite my passions for ministry and design. How many situations are there where can you finish a devotion, and then segue right into HTML, CSS, and design?

I will still keep busy with various existing projects and new ones as well as I have always been.

FreelanceSwitch is conducting its first Annual Global Freelancer Survey for 2007. If you are a freelancer, then head on over a take a minute or two and fill out the survey. After that, check out the rest of the site. There are a lot of good pointers and humor as well.