Getting the Cruft out of URLs
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 11 Comments »Which URL do you find more meaningful? http://www.blogjordan.us/dean/20040228_come_visit_biblical_jordan_with_us.php http://blogs4god.com/linker/article.php?a=001582 And when MovableType 3.0 comes out, and with the the ability to extend fields and tables, I'm going to port all of the data from blogs4God into MT and render the URLs so they're ...
FTP, TRACERT and other forgotten conveniences
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »I’m almost embarrassed to write this post, but after getting off the phone with my technically savvy friend, Chuck Holton, I was surprised. What caught me off guard was the fact that he was unaware of some very convenient Internet/network ...
Using MovableType to generate a Passion of the Christ Subdomain at Redland Baptist
Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 3 Comments »Like many churches around the country, Redland Baptist has joined in the 'True or False' Outreach.com Campaign based upon Mel Gibson’s Movie 'The Passion of the Church.’ Yes, I realize some of you have problems with both the commercial and/or ...
Hyperlink Bible References using Scripturizer 1.3
Saturday, February 14th, 2004 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 58 Comments »After almost a year of people emailing me and leaving comments, I've finally made the time to update my Scripturizer Perl Module. The changes aren't big, but they provide dramatic relief to a series of annoyances that have encumbered some ...
Using Cron with LWP::Simple and XML::RSS to retrieve news feeds
Sunday, November 23rd, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 5 Comments »Originally published on March 24, 2003 when the war in Iraq was heating up and I found direct links to popular RSS news feeds were effecting the speed in which pages loaded. I'm reposting this article for reasons that will ...
Ridge Point Community Church, Holland, MI
Monday, November 17th, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 12 Comments »If all the church web sites were as well thought-out and designed as that of the Ridge Point Community Church, Holland, MI then there would be no need for HealYourChurchWebsite. It is one of a number of sites I would ...
Comments and Code - Obfuscator 2
Wednesday, October 29th, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 8 Comments »As part of my ongoing online response to some great questions, I offer the following request by Colin Kuskie, webmaster for the Sunset Presbyterian Church: Hi Dean, My name is Colin Kuskie, and I'm Sunset Presbyterian Church's volunteer webmaster/hostmaster. I'm planning on ...
Robot Exclusion Tutorial
Monday, August 18th, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 2 Comments »I received a very nice email from Carolyn at the Faith Evangelical Church in Melrose, MA. She writes: My husband sent me this URL to improve the church website, but I feel over my head. In [point #] 7 you say. ...
Linux-based approach to fixing MSBlaster Worm infection
Monday, August 18th, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 9 Comments »I was watching the news the other night ... amused a bit by technically-impaired broadcasters who were suggesting that to fix your infected machine, you had to find a friend with the patch, or hire some geek gurus to come ...
I’ve been framed!
Monday, July 7th, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 1 Comment »The Sermons of Mark Adams are by far the most popular set of pages at Redland Baptist. Hundreds of hits per day, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. I've always snickered at the thought that when April 1st lands on ...
Never Delete a well indexed Link
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 7 Comments »While some web technologies and techniques come and go with the frequency of a "Persian rug, everything must go going out of business sale," there are some general housekeeping rules for your church web site that are ageless. One of ...
Variation on the HoneyPot theme :: the Looback
Monday, June 23rd, 2003 Posted in Titus 2:7 | 3 Comments »Kung Fu Grippe's (KFG) "Honeypot for spam harvesters" got me to thinking. In the past, I've often added a loopback email address on a contacts page so that dumb spambots that harvest and email on the fly will send a ...
