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• New source for guitar tabs
  Fri, 31st Oct 2008 14:13 EDT
  
  This is a bit off-topic, but explains my sparce posting on here lately.  I’ve been working on a new resource for church worship leaders, and it’s just about ready to...
• Don’t let your web design firm trash your Google rankings
  Thu, 16th Oct 2008 13:47 EDT
  
  Many of you are getting ripped off by your web design (or hosting) companies, and you don’t even know it.  A while back on my SEO blog I talked about...
• How much does your church use Facebook? The answer might surprise you.
  Fri, 10th Oct 2008 13:51 EDT
  
  I’ve known for a while that our church had a variety of Facebook “groups”.  I had set up a church-wide group, and there were at least a handful of youth-related...
• Add your church site search to your Chrome home page
  Thu, 4th Sep 2008 13:20 EDT
  
  One of the most talked about features of Google Chrome is the rather innovative home page.  It shows your nine most often viewed sites, along with some goodies along the...
• How will “Chrome” affect your church site?
  Mon, 1st Sep 2008 23:37 EDT
  
  As you may have heard, Google is releasing a new browser tomorrow called Chrome.  Based on what’s been revealed so far, it should be excellent, though we won’t know for...
• Salted Websites
  Sun, 6th Jul 2008 14:08 EDT
  
  You may have noticed the new ad on the top right side of the site for Salted Websites.  They’re a Christian web design firm looking to expand their business. I told...
• More fun ways to use the Google Earth plugin
  Sat, 28th Jun 2008 14:48 EDT
  
  I just showed you how you could add a simple location via the Google Earth plugin to your site, but how about a series of locations? Using EarthSwoop, I thought it’d...
• Another way to show a neat map on your website
  Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 21:46 EDT
  
  A while back I showed you YourMap, an easy way to embed a Google Map on your site.  Google now makes it very easy to do that using their normal...
• Twitter, FriendFeed and your church website
  Mon, 2nd Jun 2008 14:50 EDT
  
  By now, you’ve probably heard all about Twitter, the very popular micro-blogging service.  If not, here is a short video explaining it: At our church, we struggled for a while to...
• People might want to print your directions page
  Wed, 9th Apr 2008 20:10 EDT
  
  I need to go to Dunwoody UMC tomorrow for a seminar, so I went to their site to pull up directions.  My GPS is dead, so I’m having to do...

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