Hosting your own web site: An overview

There are a huge variety of easy-management web site hosts available–especially when you include those that cost money. For the purpose of this series, we’ll stick with the free ones. Here are the top options we’ve seen: Google Sites Wix WordPress.com Drupal Gardens Weebly Moonfruit And, a few notable for-pay options: Virb mSites Do you…   Read more


Call for Entries: How to host your own web site

There are many times when campus ministers could benefit from hosting our own web sites: campus group web sites, regional event web sites, personal fundraising web sites, blogs, and more. But where do you host? And how do you make a web site without knowing HTML? This week we’ll be covering some of the places…   Read more


Listen to Music Online

Having access to your music everywhere you go can have plenty of personal and professional benefits; just imagine having your Large Group Greeting playlist accessible from any computer with an Internet connection. Check out these services to get started with your own online music collection. Grooveshark In my own humble opinion, Grooveshark is the cream…   Read more


Keep Your Passwords Safe

More and more frequently, password-related issues are becoming a regular part of our lives. Whether it’s a hacked Facebook account, services requiring you to change your password every six months (how many new passwords can I remember??), or keeping up with the constantly increasing requirements of secure sites for the complexity of passwords, knowing how…   Read more


Make Your Own Posters At Home

When my first granddaughter was born last summer I proudly proclaimed on Facebook that I was not going to be one of those obnoxious grandparents, whipping out a wallet full of grandchild photos. No wallet-size for me, I was making posters! It was just a joke. But then a few weeks later I discovered Blockposters….   Read more