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5 Steps to Get a Million Monthly Visitors to your Website
There are many things you can do to get more visitors to your website, and attract more attention. Some are more important than others... here are my top five (based on over 10 years of web development experience, and running five top-million websites (according to Alexa):1. Relevant, well-written content
People will link more to content that is well-written or fulfills a need. Then not only do you receive direct traffic from someone else's website, Google picks up on the fact that other people are linking to your content,...
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Is there a module for that?
More often than not, this website provides the correct answer out of the box:
http://isthereamoduleforthat.com/
(mostly for my Drupal-using bretheren...).
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Embed the Breviary (and other Prayers) on your Site
Just got a link from Paolo Padrini for embedding the Breviary (daily prayers for Catholics) and other prayers/readings in a little JavaScript-enabled widget on your site:
http://www.ibreviary.com/ibreviaryweb_en.html
You can view the widget in action via the link above.
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Vatican.va Getting an Upgrade!
The Vatican website (one of the oldest domains/websites on the Internet) has been due for an overhaul for some time. Looks like it's finally going to happen! Here's the news, from EWTN:The director of the Vatican’s website, Msgr. Lucio Adrian Ruiz explained this week in an interview that the site is going through an extensive redesign to improve the Church's evangelization efforts.
The main reason for the redevelopment? Getting the Vatican website in line with Pope Benedict's call to a new evangelization on the 'digital continent.'...
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OSC Users' RSS Feeds... soon to be aggregated
In the next week or two, I'm going to configure the Feeds module to begin aggregating RSS feeds added on Open Source Catholic members' profile pages. If you'd like your feed added, make sure you go to your user account page (log in and click on 'My account' under your username) and Edit it to add the URL.
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Website Development Companies and Resources
Companies and online resource sites that help with parish and Catholic organization website design are listed on this page:
- MyParishWebsite.com
- ParishGeeks.com
- eCatholic
- CarsonW.com
- Upper Room Media
- Connecting Members - for Catholic Parishes
- FreeCatholicWebsite.com (not entirely free...)
- Green Egg Media - Catholic-focused web design and development company.
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Website Design Tools and Resources
This section of the Wiki will list resources for web developers and designers - software, snippets, and online resources for new design work.
- Images for Liturgy Programs (from sacredmusic) on Picasa
- Biblical and Religious Art (Etchings and black and white images)
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