This page is to keep track of these tools and help others who work on sites
or want to start a site. Keep in mind that these sites are
businesses and are in no way, shape, or form related to the Churches of Christ.
They were selected because they work and are inexpensive or free. If you
have other suggestions, please contact us.
Scroll down to: audio, graphics,
html, callwave, online
bible, email, frontpage, hosting
Clicking links on this page will
take you out of our site by opening a new browser window.
Click here to see how we implemented audio.
Graphics Tools
Art Today
A nice freeware screen capture utility is Printkey.exe.
Click on the link and save to disk. When you start the program, it begins
running in the system tray. Clicking on the system tray icon then brings
up the program. It is great for cutting out parts of a screen and making
graphic files.
ZyWorld.com was
used to create the 'Gahanna-Jefferson Church of Christ' gif's on the homepage
and the footer. It can also generate spinning text in gif format.
Watch out when using this as graphics make a page load very slowly. This
is now http://xara.com.
Internet Answering Machine
You're going to online a lot. Put "forward on busy" on your phone and try
out:
Or use a cable modem or DSL - Highly suggested!
Audiobible provides both text and real player audio of the King James Bible.
In addition, if you put a link to their site on your site, they will submit you
to search engines to increase traffic.
HTMLBible
provides hyper linked cross referenced Bible text that can to linked to at the
verse level.
HTML Pointers
http://htmlgoodies.com
Keyword
Density Analyzer and Keyword
Count
Search Engine Submission
(I moved this to the top of the page because I am using it the most now that
I have published).
SubmitCorner.com offers free
Search Engine Registration and meta-tag generation tools. It also has good
discussion about how search engines work and how to optimize your pages for
searching.
Don't make the same mistake I made! When building your keywords meta
tag, be sure to leave a space after each comma or your words may be interpreted
as one long word instead of the words you wanted. If you want to see our
tags, go to the home page and view source.
Also see http://siteadd.com
Meta tag Scanner
http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Metascan/
Here is another Meta Tag checker and generator
http://siteowner.bcentral.com/
Multi Engine Submit
http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Submit/
Submit to AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/addurl
Submit to Web Crawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/
Yahoo is a manual submission process. Navigate to the category you want
to be listed in and click on the "suggest a site" link. Be sure
to read the directions first so that you are prepared to enter all of your
information.
Interesting reading at Deadlock.com.
Listing Sites
Submit your site to community websites for your area. For example, we
submitted an entry in local sites, so they link to us, making it easier for
people to find us. Note that these sites link to denominations and false
doctrine and are only linked here so that we can keep track of them to maintain
our entries. It can be frustrating as worldly organizations use incorrect
terminology and titles, but it can help the community find the church.
http://ColumbusChurches.com
E-Mail
You will
need a mailbox to sign up for accounts with most of these tools, so get one
right away. Be sure you will be keeping that email for a long time.
It is critical for maintaining domain name registrations!
Site Management Tool
I decided to use FrontPage 2000 as I had some experience with it from
work. I think it does a great job of managing the navigation bars and is
easy to publish by just specifying the domain name. I know that
"serious developers" may scorn FrontPage, but it is inexpensive, easy
to use, and easy to teach to "non-techies".
Web Hosting Site
A warning: Be careful to get the domain name
registered in your name, not in the hosting service name. I had trouble
getting domain names transferred away from
http://dotregistrar.com as they had to be
unlocked by http://featureprice.com,
which was going out of business. In fact, I am still fighting this issue.
Better to perform your own domain name registrations.
Now updating for 2003. So glad we got off of featureprice.com as they
have had serious service problems. This site is now on space donated by
http://zvant.net.
John Hurt
the provider of HTMLBible.com,
says he will host charitable organizations for
free.
Other web hosting possibilities:
http://webservices.zdnet.com/zdnet/cgi/scompare1.asp?stable=Hosting_Plans&sortby=Monthly%5FFee&
Domain Name Registration
In 2003 I am transferring registrations to
http://godaddy.com as they come
up for renewal as the price is lower.
In 2002 I transferred http://gjcoc.com and http://gahannajeffersonchurchofchrist.org
domain name registrations to http://000domains.com
as they offered a free year with the transfer.
Totalnic.com offers domain name
registration. You will
have to have the server name from the Web Hosting Site before you can register
your domain name. This site is registered with here.
Joker.com now offers the same service.
Maps
MapBlast.com allows
maps and links to be inserted. Check out Mapquest.com.
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