You have a church website. You have alot of content well thought out, written and updated as needed. You are looking for just a bit more sizzle. You are thinking of audio. Getting from the sanctuary to the WEB used to be an expensive and laborious process. You had to pay for storage space. You had to pay for bandwidth. And, it could cost you dearly. Today, the real cost is upfront and at one time a decent recording device would have been expensive. I have gone through cassette to DAT and now digital. Even the $50 MP3 players/recorders today do a commendable job as long as you don't over-drive the input. But, for my weekly recording I use an H-2 ZOOM which you can get for less than $180 in the door.

It all began with a story on National Public Radio this morning. For the longest time I have used Google. For just about everything. I suspect you do too. I have know of many other search engines but fell into the generic search - Google. And, perhaps as a developer of website a bit of a trap. Google uses personal history which is greatly enhanced if you have a G-mail account, to rate and personalize your searching. This may be great for the garden variety searcher but it becomes a problem if I want to know about search ranking of websites. Both those under my control and others. In other words. the more I search the better by results using Google which can be problematic if those results are only effective on my machine. So, I dug deeper. This is my personal journey to understanding and learning alot more than I bargained for.

I was looking for an anti-virus program for a new install of Windows 98. I really like the old OS. I installed Windows 98SE. However, was not sure I could find a suitable anti-virus program. A search yielded one that I did not know of before called ClamWin. It is open-source and FREE. Check it out.

Yeah. If you haven't heard. All you LOST and FOUND groupies. It is true and the concert is FREE. Like in no cash down. Then you can spend the cash on that boxed set CD. I did and IT IS GREAT. Their new CD has been released appropriately called HERE. Reunion just a year later after the concert in June of last year, Chagrin Falls. THIS concert is at OBERLIN COLLEGE. Saturday, March 6 at 7:30 PM. Fairchild chapel. Bring your slinky!

New York Times. January 19, 2010. Teacher With Bible Divides Ohio Town. Mount Vernon, OH - Most people in this quiet all-American town describe themselves as devoutly Christian, but even here they are deeply divided over what should happen to John Freshwater. Mr. Freshwater, an eighth-grade public school science teacher, is accused of burning a cross onto the arms of at least two students and teaching creationism, charges he says have been fabricated because he refused an order by his principal to remove a Bible from his desk.

I just put together a Demonstration site using a CREATOR powered CMSimple CMS. With a few goodies including Lightbox and showing EMBED possibilities. Take a look at The DEMO CHURCH SITE. I keep the title of the site packed to prove to myself that the TITLE is ONE of the MAJOR reasons for good SEO practice. Not rocket science. Just great marketing focus and strategy. Think it out. The WEBSITE YOU ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW is GeekLog powered (offers more features) and would make a GREAT church site too. If you want. Let's talk.

In the end it is simple really. With the knowledge and the tools (in this case the lowly Notepad) one can create WOW even with the FREELY offered Blogger. With Blogger, you not only can use their templates but create your own. Something that is unique to you and you alone. The proof is in the results. Take a look at wbrandes.blogspot.com.

I was looking for an anti-virus program for a new install of Windows 98. I really like the old OS. I installed Windows 98SE. However, was not sure I could find a suitable anti-virus program. A search yielded one that I did not know of before called ClamWin. It is open-source and FREE. Check it out. Even though I have a vision disability, I love to play golf. And, it has become a different game not seeing the flight of the ball or subtle undulations of the green. So, I take it to another level. If you haven't been living in a cave, you by now know of the revelations coming from golf-dom over the Woods 36 month affair.