Web Developer Links

This sub-web of Avondale Pattillo United Methodist Church reflects the content of the training provided at the 2004 Annual District Training event for Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford and Emory-Atlanta Districts, North Georgia Conference, The United Methodist Church. You can access prior years' web and technology sessions via the menu at left.

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Notices

Links below are to sites that are external to Avondale Pattillo UMC. They may have Privacy Policies that differ from Avondale Pattillo UMC.

Links to commercial product sites do not constitute endorsement by Avondale Pattillo UMC or the United Methodist denomination.

Links marked "New" were added after the 2005 District Training session.

You can also check out church webs in the two districts:
Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District church Web sites
Atlanta-Emory District church Web sites

General

Questions to ask template-based Web hosting services
Christian Webmasters.com
Church site tips - New
Church web page template providers (in addition to E-zekiel, the UMC web host partner) - New 1/3/06
Creating Web sites with FrontPage 2003 - New 1/8/06
CyberJournalist magazine
Denomination-wide events calendar. United Methodists can get involved and stay up-to-date on church-wide events with the help of a calendar available on the denomination’s Web site. The United Methodist Calendar available on www.UMC.org allows for a search of denomination-related events occurring throughout the world. Help is needed to keep the United Methodist Calendar fresh with upcoming events. An easy-to-use online form available on www.UMC.org allows you to add your church-related event to the calendar. For details, send an email to calendar@umc.org.
Digital Web magazine - New
Google [Web site] Analytics - free - New 1/5/06
How to build a good church website
How to increase the number of inbound links to your site - New 12/17/05
Scanning tips (Word doc)
"Ten Tips for Reducing Spam", by Adam Boettiger, email911.com is a publication (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format) that has good tips.
Adobe offers a free Acrobat Reader.
Tips for improving your website
Web design and authoring tips and links
Web Evangelism Bulletin (contains "Tech Tips" that often relate to Web site work) - New

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Web authoring and design

Accessibility checklist (W3C) - Make pages accessible to the handicapped.
ALT plus TITLE - use them correctly!
Anatomy of Web Fonts - New
Annoyance level of Christian-specific parts of a Web page
Builder.com
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) basics at CNET Builder.com
Color scheme picker - free, online
CSS Anthology: Essential Tips - New
CSS layout Reservoir - New
CSS Property Index - New 12/19/05
CSS Reference Table - Replace old tags like FONT with CSS
CSS shorthand - New
CSSVista - free app to edit CSS and check results for IE and Firefox at the same time. - New 12/18/05
Design tips (NetMechanic)
Dynamic HTML
Eye tracking on Web pages
Fluid boxes with CSS - New 1/6/06
House of Style - free courses (They rotate courses. Check back often)
KEYWORD suggestion tool online - New
META tags - examples
MSDN Online (essential resources for developers) - Microsoft
Mulder's Stylesheets (CSS) Tutorials (WebMonkey)
Open Source Web Design (oswd) - New 12/17/05
Page TITLE -- a very important part of a Web page
Practical Web design
Search engine results - how we use them
Sitepoint - Web development articles and tutorials - New
Top 10 Web site mistakes - 2005 - New 12/17/05
Typography(Microsoft)
Usability News
Useit.com - usability information technology (by Jacob Nielsen) - New
W3Schools.com - tutorials & examples on -- you can cut and paste the code!
Web-Empowered Church web page template repository (free) - New 12/17/05
Web Developers' Virtual Library
Web Developers' Journal
Web site usability links
Web development tips - Ulead
WebMonkey
WebReference
Web Review
WebStandards
ZDNet Developer

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Web Graphics

3-D Text maker - free, online
Color scheme picker - free, online
Color Schemer Online - New
Color schemes generator - helps select a color palette for your web - New 1/14/06
Creating graphics for the Web
GifWorks - online GIF editor, animator, and optimizer. Free!
Graphics 101 (CNET Builder.com)
Graphics tips (Webreference)
Image Map tutorial (NCSA)
Principles of graphic design (Mundi Studios) - New
Web Color Theory (Mundi Design) - New

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JavaScript

JavaBoutique
JavaScript.com
JavaScript tricks and more... (NetMechanic)
JavaScript tutorial
JavaScript How-Top column
JavaScript Source

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Utilities - free

AceFTP 3 file transfer software - New
CoffeeCup Free FTP 3.0 - file transfer - New
CoffeeCup Free DHTML Menu Builder - New
Core FTP - file transfer - New
CSSVista - free app to edit CSS and check results for IE and Firefox at the same time. - New 12/18/05
CutePDF Writer - print any file as a PDF from nearly any Windows application. - New 1/2/06
Eyedropper - A fast, small, & versatile "color picker".
View Rendered Source - a FireFox web developer utility - New
GIFClean32 - Reduce file size of GIFs. It's good at reducing the size of animated GIF files.
Link checker - make sure they are all valid - use the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) tool.

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Cold Fusion related sites

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FrontPage-related sites

Basic tutorials (Microsoft)
FrontPage 2000 tutorial (Microsoft)
FrontPage 2003 training courses (14 free ones from Microsoft) - New
FrontPage Journal weekly tips by email by Element K (ZDNet)
FrontPage tips at CNET Builder.com
FrontPage tips & tutorials (About.com)
FrontPage Solutions (2002, 2000 info, tutorials, ...) (Microsoft)

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Dreamweaver-related sites

Dreamweaver tips at CNET Builder.com
Dreamweaver Support Center - Macromedia
Dreamweaver tips and tutorials (About.com)

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Software product links

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