Church Web Master Links
A Resource jointly developed by the members of the S.C. Congregational Web Masters Group
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Last updated October 23, 2000

Our motto:  "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.  Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle."   --Phillips Brooks, Twenty Sermons, p. 330.

How the Church is Using Computer Technology
Churches and Computers, from Christianity Online
Web Evangelism

Getting Started
Dancing on the Web (tutorial and templates)
Home Page Help for Religious Groups
Creating and Housing a Church Web Page
The Gentle Art of Crafting a Web Site (Unitarian-Univ.)
Planning Your Web Site
Download Netscape Navigator free
Netscape Navigator Instructions
Top Ten Mistakes of Web Design

Church Web Master E-Zines
ChurchWebMonthly
All Things Web e-zine

Computer Services to Benefit Churches
Free FAX service via e-mail

Increasing Traffic to Your Web Site
Join a WebRing, or start one!
Advice on attracting traffic
ForeverWeb: Web Site Traffic Suggestions
How Wide is the Web from About.Com

(Thanks go to Paul F. Smith for collecting and annotating the resources below--.)

Technical Support

Joe Expert, a site where you can post questions, good learning experience to look over questions that
have been posted.

Bud's TroubleShooter, problems with any version of Windows?, error messages and fixes, a great site
for support links, from Microsoft to people who just like to solve problems for people (Moan's 1000
tips for new users and 1000's of links.

Windows Message Board A message board sponsored by Microsoft dealing with Windows 95.x -
98.x Setup, FAQ, chat, drivers at some of the boards that may be of assistance to you.

Webmonkey HTML Cheatsheet site,  This is a useful site if you want to find out the function of html tags. They are group in a logical order,i.e., basic, header, body attributes, text, links, etc.

Site Crafters customer and user support page, A good site to view   information on FrontPage, Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Outlook Express.

My Help Desk, Gives you links to technical support information, tips, tricks, and lost of free
downloads.

PC Support offers basic information on keeping your computer running as well as live chats.

Service 911 provides tech support chats, it'll also send a tech agent to your home - for a fee!

FrontPage Site dedicated for information and support for FrontPage

Downloads

Tucows One of the best sites to find shareware and freeware. Look for the rating system! Has software that is available for Windows 3.1

Net mechanic, type in your URL at this site and links will be checked for valid URL, spelling, page
load time and invalid html code.

Netscape browser can be downloaded free from this site.

Microsoft Explorer can be downloaded free from this site.

Opera Software --Yes, it is another browser! Site provides excellent information on this software.

Ziff Davis Downloads  Good site for finding free downloads. Some of the downloads will let you try a version of there software for 30 days, i.e. Paint Shop Pro, FTP programs, utilities

Christian Graphics  Good source for Christian graphics, links to many good sites.

Christian Graphics from GBGM A comprehensive list of graphics, button, backgrounds, Methodist symbols. Not well organized site, but keeping looking --it is somewhere!

Religious Sets by Marie, quality borders, backgrounds, themes

Computer Viruses

Symantec  The latest news on viruses can be found at the Symantec site. Antiviral software sold at site.

McAfee  Another top site for getting the latest news on viruses. Products for sale.

Web Design

About.com site, a good place to see how others are doing in designing web sites.  A lot of beginners leave questions to be answered.  As you will see, no question is out of place.

Another About.com site for beginners learning html. There are 1,000's of sites that do this same sort of thing. This one does seem to be designed for some getting started. You can pick-up a few key words or find out all attributes of each html tag.

Web Builders News Letter  Site for information that centers on church designed web sites. You can get a weekly e-mail news letter from this organization.

All Things Web  As you get into design and building sites, one quickly finds each editor has it unique codes in building a web site. This site shows the correct way using standards of the html community.

Html Goodies  Lots of information for designers on this site. Many tutorials on the web these are some of the better ones. They are user friendly. One can start at the very basics and go in numerous
directions, getting started, tables, backgrounds, forms, frames, buttons and browsers, etc.

Miscellaneous

C|net Com is one of the better sites for hardware reviews, a place to compare prices, find the latest
technology news.
 

Engine Search A one stop site to submit your site to twenty-eight search engines,i.e. Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite, Northern Light, Hot Bot, etc.

Price Watch Before you make that hardware, software or consumer electronics  purchase check this site. A good place to compare prices.