08.15.07
Posted in Others, Web Hosting, Blog Hosting, Miscellaneous Items at 10:15 pm by Administrator
The Value of Small Things
Taken for granted
In life, it is but normal to take the small things
for granted. This is natural as they do not seem
to stand out, their very size makes them almost unseen,
and their value is usually commensurate to its size.
But, when seen from a certain perspective and context,
a small thing can mean a lot. Those involved in
customer service know this very much. They look at
the smallest details so that their client or customer
does not feel neglected, or their feelings hurt, or
may experience offense from a careless remark about
them. When customer relations management is carefully
taken care of, then customers will be satisfied and
happy - especially if their “little” needs are taken
care of.
A thousand pennies is still a thousand pennies
Pennies are small amount of coins. And a thousand
pennies, even though they may be a thousand, will
still remain pennies. But this is because we look
at them from the context only of pennies. Imagine if
a person has $999,999.99 in amount of pennies. If
we continue with our thinking as with the thousand
pennies, then we will also say that though $999,999.99
is big, it is still worth the same amount in pennies.
This is because we look at the value from only a
material point of view. But if we balance our
perception, if we broaden our understanding, and
if we look at the whole piece of paper rather than
the ink blot, then we will see something different:
it lights up our way of looking at the $999,999.99
pennies. When we add that one penny that will make it
a million dollars, then that will spell a much big
difference in value.
A Catholic articles web site is like one penny
A Catholic articles web site or web log is like one
penny. But if it is the penny that will make the
Catholic faith worth a million dollars “in a spiritual
sense” - meaning of monumental value, then that one penny
will be vitally important. So, small things mean a
lot. And this is what St. Therese of Lisieux always
reminds us with her way of life: every little thing
she does, she does with great love. Translated in
a material sense, every penny we pick up and save
will be the penny that will make the Catholic faith
worth more than “$999,999.99 in just pennies”. So
don’t underestimate the value of a penny. And don’t
take for granted and underestimate the value of a
Catholic articles web site or web log. That just might
be the “penny” that will make the world of the internet
a world of peace - the peace that John Paul II has been
in mission for during his whole pontificate.
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Learning From One’s Mistakes in Web Site Development
Developing a Successful Catholic Web Site is a Process of
Correcting Errors and Learning
Web development since 2004
When our web site was referred to Judy Walker and her
network of classes in SEO Techniques, we did not know
anything about web site development. In fact, enrolling
our web site at S.R. Emerson’s HTML classes elicited only
many error issues found primarily in our home page - the
index.html page. It took a lot of trial and error moves
in order to get the right coding done and to clean up
the code in such a way as to make it load faster in the
web browsers. It was also difficult on our part to just
remove links from our link partners at the home page
because we would not want to break the link relationship
with them.
Breakthrough through WordPress
OUr home page had this issue for many years and we did
not want to spend any further in terms of hiring SEO
professionals or web design masters. What helped us
solve our basic issue with the home page was the idea
that our Yahoo! Web Hosting starter package gave us:
the idea of having a blog’s index.php as your home page.
We thought of this very carefully and we wanted also
our loyal subscribers to have a choice between using
this new home page and the original one. We actually
followed the move made by Yahoo! when they introduced
a new format for their email and their My Yahoo! page.
WordPress solved many issues
Since Yahoo! Web Hosting gives its subscribers the
opportunity to make a blog its home page, then we took
this opportunity and created a WordPress web log to
act as our “front home page”. It solved these issues:
web design was made simpler through a template provided
by WordPress; the simpler design also made it easier
for pages to load in many browsers; [the idea of the
Zenit format - wherein titles are presented first in
a list and then when clicked leads to a paragraph that
details the item - also helped a lot]; and most of all,
with this WordPress template, we are assured of a format
that would be easily accorded a standard rating by the
web consortium.
Much more still needed to be corrected
A lot of pages in the web site are still in need of
much correction. We also found out that when a link
is broken and then you copy this broken link unknowingly
to other pages of your articles or blog posts, then it
will register as a page not found in the browser of
your readers. This is why it is needed to be very
careful when creating and developing web pages. One
broken link can lead to many, many pages containing
that broken link. It would be hard to detail all of
those pages - especially if they are too numerous to
correct - but something can be done in order to help
one’s readers and visitors with finding the information
they need from your site. And this can be solved by
creating a very good 404 not found error page.
If success is a journey, then learning is one
assurance that we shall reach our destination
We may be speaking only of web development and in
correcting the errors we find in our coding and in
our pages, but when we are faced with an obstacle,
or with a problem, or with a dilemma, or with an
“error” message that really tests our patience,
then all we need to do is to be open to learning.
Openness to learn from situations such as the ones
enumerated above will give us the assurance of
success - just as faith gives us the assurance of
things unseen.
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08.07.07
Posted in Others, News and Features, Web Hosting, Blog Hosting, HTML, SEO and RSS at 12:30 am by Administrator
The Content of Our Revised Catholic eBook
Introduction:
The first six pages of our free Catholic eBook are available
online and can be viewed easily. The revised version of the
eBook however has additional pages - including more detailed
information and other important resources to build a Catholic
presence on the Net. To view the first six pages of the eBook,
you can visit eBook Index.
Benefitting from the eBook
Learning the free resources needed in order to start this
Catholic lay initiative and enterprise is one important benefit
in this eBook:
- free web site and web log hosting services
- free graphics editing software
- free traffic generator to enhance visits to one’s site
- free antivirus systems
- free system of finding reciprocal linking
- free ethical search engine optimization lessons
- free html and text editor for writing your web pages
- free rss feed aggregators and readers
There are also many other resources in the web site that are
free for your use - especially book reviews of Catholic books
you can borrow at the public library or from a Catholic school
or university.
Beginning a Catholic presence with our supportive and stable
network
Building a supportive and stable network was not easy on our
part. It took a lot of time and energy and some amount of
luck to find the right connections and determine the opportune
moments to link with good and stable web sites and web logs.
The important thing is that this network has been established
since May 2002 and is growing ever since. If you so decide
to follow our way of proceeding in building a Catholic presence
online, then you are assured of a supportive and stable network
that you can work with in building your Catholic articles web
site or web log. Once integrated within the network, your
web site or web log will also be a supportive and stabilizing
influence to other Catholic families who are intending to
build a Catholic presence online also. The links to this
supportive and stabilizing network are all given in our
free Catholic eBook.
Important tips and helps
In the revised version of our eBook, we have added very
important tips and helps for those who will seriously consider
building their family’s Catholic presence online. These tips
and helps is in relation to choosing the right web hosting
package for your family: whether it be Yahoo! Web Hosting or
1and1.com The decision depends also on the focus and main
theme of the web site you are planning to build. Another
very important tip is in relation to the choice of words for
your domain name. There is one tip given in the eBook that
helps us choose a domain name that establishes us as a Catholic
web site but one that is founded by a Catholic family - a lay
initiative.
Unlocking the key of success
The key to unlock the key to success in building a Catholic
presence on the Net is: simplicity, fidelity, and service.
Simplicity in form and content, fidelity in building regularly
helpful and informative content, and a sense of service to
all who ask help will assure the family of a Catholic articles
web site that will help them build a strong Catholic identity
and a sense of Catholicism that is rooted strong in tradition
and loyalty to the pontiff.
To download and get our eBook, visit our partner site at
Download Free Catholic eBook: Gospel and Culture web site
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06.29.07
Posted in Others, News and Features, Web Hosting, Miscellaneous Items at 8:35 am by Administrator
Catholic Windows on the World
A blog that seeks to propagate the Catholic presence on
the Net by linking Catholic sites and blogs in an expanding
and progressive network.
The story of Catholic Internet Mission
The Catholic Internet Mission or (CIM) web site was not
really planned. What was originally intended was to create
a Yahoo! list with Catholic members. However, social
interactivity on the Net and in the physical world led to
the list’s growth to include web logs, web rings, and a
web site - all of which are on free accounts.
Growth of the network through John Paul’s spirit
Even though the CIM web site was not planned, there was
however a driving spirit behind the founding of everything
within the CIM network. That driving spirit was the
encouraging words of John Paul II in his many documents
on the internet. Through John Paul II’s spirituality
of mission and holiness, this spirit was translated and
concretized through the CIM web site and its network -
eventually naming it informally a “webnetwork” - a
mishmash of web pages all centralized through Catholic
Internet Mission.
Learning the ropes; standardization
Through SEO standardization, the CIM web site was able to
enter into the mainstream of the internet. Being in the
mainstream of the internet is not easy as traffic and
visitor flow to the web site is as “volatile” as the
stock market! The only stable element that kept the
CIM web site afloat was its vision and non-profit motive
to love God, the Church, and the Catholic faith in which
many people put their trust, their confidence, their
very lives on. If we were working for just the money
alone then our CIM web site and the network in which
it is contextualized would have folded up easily. So,
despite the ups and downs of visitor traffic, sticking
to our vision and mission and keeping to our “knitting”,
helped a lot to withstand the highly competitive and
fast upgrading pressures of the internet world.
We need your help and support
Ours is a growing, developing, and progressing network.
However, we also need your support and your help. The
help and support that you can give is to simply join
our mission and our network: get a Yahoo! Web Hosting
account through us, and build with us “Catholic Windows
on the World” - which will all help evangelize peoples
of all cultures on the Net - peoples who may have not
have had the opportunity to initially encounter the
Catholic message in the internet medium. Your modest
and humble support is already very vital and important
to us - as we also are a modest and humble Catholic
enterprising mission comprised of extended Catholic
family members.
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