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Any registered user can edit and save changes to the pages inside our wiki/book, and thus help others to find the best ways to do certain things online. Simply visit any page in the book, and you’ll be able to click on the ‘edit’ tab to edit the page. All changes are tracked, and even if you mess something up (accidentally, of course), we can go back and change it back to an older version.
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Catholics Get Bashed by Web 2.0 Crowd
[This post offers up some interesting topics for discussion — Ed.]
As a faithful Catholic who embraces the Internet and the whole Web 2.0 "movement," I am always amazed at how totally liberal and anti-religion many of the bright folks in this field are. Just today I was reading the great website TechCrunch, when I came across this article by Paul Carr, who wrote:
Continue reading"If this were a column about religious affairs, I would undoubtedly focus this week on the shocking news that Beelzebub himself has joined...
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Random Bugfixes for Internet Explorer 6/7
For the better part of two days, I was working on making a new design (currently here) for the Archstl.org website display correctly in Internet Explorer. There were a few bugs that took me hours to solve, so I thought I'd share here my solutions (note: 'good browsers = all browsers but IE').
Above: the final screenshot - I'll be working now mostly on little tweaks, and on porting this design to a CMS theme...
The z-index property - fine in good browsers, bad in IE
The first major problem...
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church wants to go Digital for Catechesis any thoughts?
We are hoping to create our digital catechesis site from grades k-8 including the entire families. We want it to be charismatic, creative and user friendly while sticking to standards.
We also want to include activities, games and anything that will have families paying more attention together. We are new and just need a lot of advice.
I look forward to comments.
Valerie
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Open source equivalent of Outlook and Exchange Server
Does anyone know if there is an open source and/or free alternative to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server? I found Mozilla is beta-ing something called Sunbird. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/index.html But this doesn't look to be able to book conference rooms or invite others to meetings, just a schedule sharing program. But it does link to a cool site that appears to have come calendars already created with the Catholic liturgical schedule. Has anyone used those before? http://icalshare.com/index.php?topic=religion&page=2
Alternatively, has anyone seen a module or add-on for Joomla/Drupal that allows for the...
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Building Catholic Parish/Organization Websites
I don't know how many times I've now been contacted about building custom Church websites for various parishes, organizations, and ministries... and most of the time I am unable to accept these requests. I think our Church is finally at the point where the greatest hurdle is not necessarily pastors/leaders misunderstanding the importance of a good web presence, but the lack of great tools for building that presence.
I've seen site-building services such as www.eCatholicChurches.com, www.CatholicChurchWebsites.com, and www.ChurchAddress.com, but
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Question About Running A Freelance Business
So, here are some of my concerns about diving into the freelance field after I officially lose my job (which seems to be taking longer than expected, which is a good thing, while at the same time quite frustrating).
Here are some questions I have:
- Do I get a vendors license, do I incorporate, or do I just report the extra income on my personal taxes???
- What program do you use to do your invoices? (I've found some descent invoice templates for OpenOffice 3)
- Do you list the web hosting...