March 31, 2008
by meandean
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For what will it profit a man if his church website is the slickest in the Internet if he has to forfeit a month’s collections just to change the welcome message? If you haven’t guessed by the play on Matthew 16:26 (&/or Mark 8:36, &/or Luke 9:25), or the somewhat wordy “bad church web design poster #006,” the topic of today’s “sermonette” is website maintenance. Continue reading
March 27, 2008
by meandean
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Multiple column, table-less layouts using CSS isn’t so hard the CSS Grids Builder tool provided as part of the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. Just enter the number of columns, the widths and positions, and presto – a very small XHTML footprint driven by some rather clever formatting wrapped-up into a nicely compressed cascading style sheets is your for the taking … free! Continue reading
March 14, 2008
by meandean
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Below are steps describing how I used Knoppix Linux to fix the dreaded Windows XP ‘Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization System Process…’ failure.
March 9, 2008
by meandean
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So once again, that infernal Daylight saving time thingie bothers us by automatically setting, or perhaps not setting our system clocks on your Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Knoppix, or Suse install either an hour ahead, or remaining an hour late! Continue reading
February 28, 2008
by meandean
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I feel like a little boy yelling down the street to announce the arrival of the circus. “They’re here! They’re Here! They’re HERE!” Yes folks, the JotSpot WIKI technology that Google acquired back in October of 2006 is now a service available via Google Aps – a service entitled “Google Sites.”
A service that I as soon as it appeared on my aggregator, I added to HealYourChurchWebSite.com – taking screen shots and notes so you too can add Google Sites’ WIKI-like capabilities to your church and/or charity website.
February 14, 2008
by meandean
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Using a blog to manage a website’s content is a flexible and affordable solution more and more churches are employing to effectively present their message online. There is however one drawback – in that some of the open source blogging solutions used as content management on the cheap also tend to attract attention from nere-do-wells who attack the comment and content functions of application such as WordPress and MovableType with robotic floods of advertisements offering anything from enlarging various appendages to curing male baldness all while losing your life’s saving playing poker online. Continue reading
February 9, 2008
by meandean
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This post is dedicated to all of you running your church’s website in the choir robe closet, or who have been graced with a generous and geeky member who has taken advantage of one of those cheap, unmanaged dedicated server deals advertised at places like WebHostingTalk: Continue reading
January 17, 2008
by meandean
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Here is a free and easy to use online form that automates the 10 steps in embedding a google map withing your church website into 2 and a half easy-peazy steps. Continue reading