Archive for the 'Blog administration' Category

Keeping Web sites light

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Blogging minister (or ministering blogger) and friend Victoria Weinstein — PeaceBang — noted that she posted only a few pictures from her sabbatical visit in Romania because of the cost of bandwidth.
This truth cuts both ways: heavyweight Web sites take a long time to download when the connection is slow. And if the connection is [...]

Back to basics: blog, not periodical

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

On May 22, this blog will have its sixth anniversary, but I’ve been writing relatively little lately. I reflected, “why?” After all, I have resources to share and ideas to be fleshed out.
I supposed I wanted to come up with fully thought-out articles but, not having the time to finish them, I declined to [...]

CSS Naked Day!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Three posts in one day? Madness!
In case you were wondering, April 9 is also CSS Naked Day. So there’s a holiday for everyone!
What’s that?
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play [...]

How do you read blogs?

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Blogs serve a number of functions: highly-specialized media sources, public notebooks, a nexus for organzing a group of people and an inexpensive alternative to an ordinary web site, to name a few.
If I see a blog — or for those for whom blog is a bad thing, a Web site with regularly updated, short-format articles [...]

Upgrading to WordPress 2.7

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

What a sharp looking piece of software, with several improvements that I already appreciate. For instance, I am writing this blog post from within the dashboard — no burrowing down a couple of levels to do the one thing that brings me to the admin side of my blog the most. Can zap spam from [...]

Testing the site on a mobile phone

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I think I’m the last person in the District of Columbia to have a cell phone, and so I certainly don’t use a web-enabled phone to read Web sites. But many people — even outside D.C. — do, and I figured I might as well see how this blog (and other sites I work on) [...]

Imagine your readers with Anglican case studies

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I’ve been hearing quite a bit lately — in the various spheres of my life — about using case studies to guide a project. Imagine, say, you have a program at church and want to make sure it works for its participants. You might come up with case studies for a few archetypal participants, and [...]

Blog in review: July 2006

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I know this review series is dragging a bit: I intended it as a fifth-anniversary special (in May) but there are some articles worth recalling. If I do say so.
Using GnomeSword to tease out biblical citations
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Exhibiting at General Assembly: part one, goals
Monday, July 10th, 2006
But here are a few goals an exhibitor [...]

Before the blog, the log

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Back when I was in my Clinical Pastoral Education unit — which all candidates for Unitarian Universalist ministerial fellowship must complete — the on-call hospital chaplains recorded rounds, deaths and pastoral care issues in a large log book in the Pastoral Care office. A tight running log of the pastoral care life of the hospital. [...]

UniversalistChurch.net under repair

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Been a busy weekend here; blogging suffers. Hubby and I placed a bid on an apartment, but didn’t get it. So we were a bit distracted.
Distracted enough, on my part, to start fiddling with my long-neglected UniversalistChurch.net site. It hasn’t been what I hoped, and an increasing number of texts available at Google Books means [...]


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