Matt Heerema

Matt is a pastor, businessman, theology student, & massive geek.

Church

Lead Pastor, Stonebrook Church

  • A thriving, multi-generational congregation that seeks to teach & follow God’s word and glorify Jesus by making disciples.
Stonebrook Church

Business

CEO, Chief Strategist, Mere Agency

  • We make websites that impact the world
  • Solutions for organizations of all shapes and sizes
  • Matt founded Mere in 2011
Mere Agency

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Latest posts

  • CSS in Content Management Systems

    About two-thirds of my time at work is spent banging my head against some sort of content management system. One that I am in the process of developing, and another hulking behemoth that I have been asked to “help” with. If I were ever to build another CMS up from scratch (which I am currently…

  • Creative Conflict

    I hate conflict. I try to avoid it. When it comes up, I usually take the role of peacemaker, sometimes even giving up what I see to be a good solution in order to resolve the conflict. D. Keith Robinson of Asterisk has recently posted two great articles on dealig with conflict: Dealing With Creative…

  • Eyetrack III – How people scan a site

    An interesting (if unscientific) investigation (I won’t call it a study…) into how people look at/scan/browse a Web page was recently conducted by several media agencies. Eyetrack III, sought to answer a few questions of great interest to Web designers: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to…

  • Critiquing design work

    Dave Shea of Mezzoblue (who is a great designer btw) on design critics: I�m almost convinced that anyone whose critique of a redesign is as substantial as: �I don�t like the green.� �is someone who absolutely fails to understand the purpose of web design, and should give up any aspirations in the profession. And my…

  • Web Standards ARE the fiscally responsible way to go.

    Well, here we have it the first (of many, I’m sure) lawsuits against inaccessible Web sites (in America anyway; there have been lawsuits in other countries before). Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced settlements with two major organizations that will make the web sites far more accessible to blind and visually impaired users. In addition…

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