ccmlyrics.com’s sister domains ccmlyrics.net and ccmlyrics.org are for sale. I haven’t used them for ages (actually I got them for free when I bought ccmlyrics.com years ago), so they have just been sitting in my portfolio gathering dust. I would be happy to sell them to anyone who makes a reasonable offer via the current holding page at SEDO (just enter the domain name in your browser and it will take you to the holding page). Of course I would prefer it if you wanted to use the site for CCM related activities…
I found a press release in my mail this morning that I thought I’d share with you. It’s from Furious Records, announcing that Delirious?, one of the pioneering bands of the “modern worship” movement, are “taking a break” from recording and performing as a band at the end of 2009. In fact the rest of the press release makes it sound like a rather final “break”.
The Delirious? guys have been around for so many years and so incredibly busy during those years, it’s hard to imagine going to a major christian music festival and them not being there. But it was something that doesn’t come as a complete surprise. Stewart Smith (drums) left the band earlier this year to spend more time with his family and all the others have families as well – it must be hard to lead a normal family life when you’re touring for several months of the year.
I believe that no other band has influenced me more in my development as a christian, by showing that worshipping God through song doesn’t have to be dull and boring. Without their songs, I probably wouldn’t be a worship leader today. Many of the songs they wrote will still be sung many years from now, by people who probably won’t even know who Delirious? were. And I will always remember the countless times I saw them perform live, from one of their first appearances at the Christmas Rock Night here in Germany back in 1999 to the Frenzy Festival in Edinburgh just a couple of weeks ago. But although this website is about the lyrics more than about the music, the one truly unforgettable moment for me will always be the 20 minutes of instrumental worship during their Soul Survivor 2005 worship session.
It is with great respect that I report on what really is the end of an era – may we still enjoy their songs for a long time afterwards and give glory to God with words and melodies that they have written.
Technorati : Delirious, band, christian music, music, worship
Until today, the search page on this site only took you to a Google search page with a customized design. But last night, Google released the new custom search engine feature and we are already using it to provide a much better search function. Results will now appear on the search page itself (you will need to have Javascript enabled) and priority is given to results from music and christian sites that were hand picked for their quality. Over the next few weeks, the customization will be further improved, but even now the results should already be much better than what you are used to. Contact the webmaster if you are interested in helping refine the search by adding more quality sites to the list of preferred search targets.
Technorati : CSE, Google, ccm, christian, lyrics, music, search
This site has been up and running for a little over two months now and I just thought it’s time for a little status update. First of all, thanks to all of you who keep coming to this site and making it a success. The number of pageviews has grown almost exponentially and there is now also a significant and growing number of feed and email subscribers. If at first I wasn’t sure if a site like this would really find an audience, I am now.
Last month, thanks to a gift certificate from my domain registrar, we were able to run a little 10 day Google Adwords campaign to drive more traffic to the site. Many of these visitors seem to be returning on a regular basis now because the pageviews haven’t dropped as much as I would have expected after the end of the campaign. These campaigns are expensive, so unless I get another gift certificate, there won’t be another adwords campaign anytime soon (of course if you want to make a contribution toward this, feel free to use the Paypal link in the sidebar) – this site isn’t making any money except for the little bit that comes in through advertising and isn’t even enough to pay for hosting and domain registration yet (which isn’t a big deal because making money is not what this site is about).
There are two things we need at the moment: links from other websites, so we can improve the page rank of this relatively new site and drive more traffic to it – and comments. If you can provide either of the two, feel free to do so. I would love to see some discussions and feedback on the articles, they will make the site feel more “alive”. And maybe if I see you have something to say, you might be invited as a guest author in the future. If you want to link to the site and use a logo with it, I suggest you use this logo – it’s ok if you use it from your site, no need to copy it to your own server. If we ever change it, we’ll make sure that the URL remains the same.
Again, thanks for visiting – seeing the number of readers and subscribers grow is one of the things that motivate me to sit down and write new articles even when times are busy (like they are going to be in the next few weeks, when I’ll be away a lot). Without you, this site would be like a radio station that nobody listens to…
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Those of you who have been coming to this site regularly and waiting for it to launch as a christian lyrics search site may be wondering why it has now launched as a blog instead. I thought that I owe you a bit of an explanation and it’s probably best done by having a look at the history of ccmlyrics.com.
Continue reading ‘A little bit of history’
