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	The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Georgia

Links from the "Gigabytes for the Gospel" Workshops
Christmount Christian Assembly
2008

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Session 1 - Technology and the Church

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

Georgia Disciples Discussion Forums:
www.gadisciples.org/forum/default.asp
Disciple (UCC) Forum
www.discipleforum.com
MySpace
www.myspace.com
FaceBook
www.facebook.com
YouTube
www.youtube.com
WikiPedia - the Encyclopedia
www.wikipedia.com
Streamers - online Disciples History Education
http://www.discipleshistory.org/tools/streamers/default.htm

Session 2a - Your Church Web Site

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

List of standard Windows Fonts: www.kayskreations.net/fonts/fonttb.html
Christian Alternative to MySpace: www.xianz.com

Session 2b - Your Church Web Site

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

Sites used as discussion Examples. We may not have used all of these site.

Session 3 - Lets Build a Web Site

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

Authoring Tools

Microsoft Expression Web:
www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web

Content Management Systems
Examples

Community Server - http://communityserver.com
- designed for “community” sites.
DotNetNuke - http://dotnetnuke.com
- requires a Windows Server
Drupal – www.drupal.org
- Simpler than Joomla or Mambo
- Capital City Region is a Durpal site: http://www.cccadisciples.org
Joomla - www.joomla.org
- The Granddaddy – used by large publishers
Mambo - http://mambo-foundation.org
- Joomla’s “parent”
Joomla Example: www.lawrencevillefirstchristian.org

Session 4 - Web Site Tips and Tricks

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

DOC Webmasters Site: https://secure.disciples.org/discuss/webmasters

Disciples Graphics: http://www.disciples.org/cm/graphics

Cheap Stock Photos: http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

Google: Free Christian Clipart – to find a huge number of resources.

Favicon
• See http://www.chami.com/tips/Internet/110599I.html for instructions and online tools.

Calendars
• www.google.com/calendar
   Example: www.peachtreecornerscc.org/calendar.asp
• www.mychurchevents.com
   Example:
   www.mychurchevents.com/calendar/calendar.aspx?ci=L6L6K5M7O9F0O9L6I3

Bible Verses and Resources
• http://bible.oremus.org - very flexible but no “verse of the day” feature.
• http://www.biblegateway.com - verse of day.
• http://www.verseoftheday.com - verse of day.

Lectionary:
• The Disciples Lectionary box: http://www.disciples.org/lectionary/feed/
• A full listing of the Lectionary: http://divinity.lib.vanderbilt.edu/lectionary
• Cherry Log CC Lectionary: http://www.clccdoc.org/lectionary_include.htm
See: http://www.gadisciples.org/about_us/webmasters.htm for instructions on how to use.

PDF:
• Always put notice next to PDF that it is PDF and the file size. see: http://www.gadisciples.org/Messenger/Index.htm
• Always put a download notice about PDF tools on page somewhere – Icon's are available from http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html#readerlogo (with rights info)
Link them to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
• Adobe Acrobat is THE tool but is expensive www.adobe.com
• http://createpdf.adobe.com/# online conversion – 5 free then $10 a month.
• www.pdf995.com – a free tool to create pdfs.
• http://www.pdfonline.com - a $15 tool but also has FREE online conversions
• http://primopdf.com - Recommended at the retreat.

Slide Shows and Galleries:
• Flash Slideshow maker: www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/download/index.php
can be built and put on site.
• PhotoShow Deluxe. Free trial or $35 - www.photoshow.com
• Microsoft Photo Story 3. Free - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
• Galleries examples
o phpgraphy - http://phpgraphy.sourceforge.net
o phpGallary - http://www.encaps.net - Free, $15 to remove links
• Gallary2 – (be sure and do 2, not 1) - http://codex.gallery2.org/Main_Page

Video:
• www.Youtube.com, video.google.com and video.yahoo.com.
Also www.GodTube.com.
• blip.tv - free, has no size limits (youtube has 100mb limit) and allows easy embed.
Blip also can be used for PodCasting.
see http://www.gadisciples.org/Camp/index.htm
Can build your own video site: http://ccinga.blip.tv/#607618
• Jesus & Easter Bunny:
www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=7e407752fe773eed2063

Online Donations
• www.paypal.com
o https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donate-intro-outside
• www.justgive.com
• www.clickandpledge.com

GoodSearch
• www.goodsearch.com

WebRing
• See: www.gadisciples.org/Main/links.htm click on Ring Hub

Forums
• Most commonly used Free PHP based forum is www.phpbb.com
• On a windows server: www.webwizguide.info (used by Region of Georgia)
• Also on Windows servers: forum.snitz.com

Site Statistics:
• www.statcounter.org
• www.getclicky.com
• www.google.com/analytics

Syndicated RSS and Ajax feeds
• www.feedburner.com

Session 5 - There Be Dragons

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

Copyrights:
• Text
   Doctrine of "Fair Use". - See:
   www.copyright.cornell.edu/policy/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf
   Cornell site:
   www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/

• Music
www.mpa.org/copyright_resource_center/church_musician

Photo Release forms:
www.telecompioneers.org/communications/photoreleaseforms.aspx

Masking E-mail: www.digitalcolony.com/02/maskemail/

Privacy Notice Example at www.gadisciples.org/shared/privacy_statment.htm

Forms Spamming and CAPTCHA
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
• recaptcha.net/resources.html – free CAPTCHA code (programming required)
• www.puremango.co.uk/cm_php_captcha_script_113.php
• www.php.meezerk.com/index.php?page=captcha

Backups
• www.carbonite.com - recommended by Buddy
• www.mozy.com - recommended by Dean

Saturday Afternoon Optional

Slides: PowerPoint
PDF

Simple Image Editing - Graphics and Photo manipulation
• Free Online Image editors – review:
   www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2108968,00.asp
   o gimp.org – free open source image editor
   o www.irfanview.com - free image viewer with editing capabilities.
   o Powertoys for XP – image resizer:
      www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

• Other image editors and lots of other toys available at:
o www.tucows.com
o www.download.com

Web Visibility
• Disciples Cross Link project.
www.gadisciples.org/Main/links.htm
from www.disciples.org/congregations/websites/?showall=true
• Robot.txt - www.robotstxt.org/orig.html

Web Site Statistics
• Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics

HTML
• www.w3schools.com/default.asp
• watson.addy.com HTML validation tool – but it doesn't understand FrontPage bots, etc.

JavaScript
• www.w3schools.com/default.asp

ASP.NET (Microsoft)
• Learning resource for HTML, Javascript, and .net all in one:
msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308786.aspx
• www.w3schools.com/default.asp

Choosing and Registering a URL
• A good resource for general questions: http://www.icann.org/faq/
• Sample Registrars
   o www.godaddy.com
   o www.registersite.com
   o www.misk.com

Hosting Providers
• www.godaddy.com
• www.forministry.com
• wiki.dreamhost.com/Non-profit_Discount - Dreamhost www.dreamhost.com

E-Mail

• CAN Spam act: www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.shtm
• Check out "Urban Legends": www.snopes.com




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Links from the "Gigabytes for the Gospel" Workshops Christmount Christian Assembly 2008

Links from the "Gigabytes for the Gospel" Workshops
Christmount Christian Assembly
2008