Rapid application and web site development. Increasing demand for web standards. New standards and technologies appear, grow, and morph together within shorter and shorter cycles. Webmasters must be more productive than ever. These guidelines will help you become a more productive webmaster.
The building blocks of a productive webmaster are:
Webmasters can find plenty of excellent tools now to:
The old saying, "Use the right tool for the right job", remains true today. Invest time today in finding yourself the right tools for the jobs you do.
The net houses a myriad of web developer software. Some of the best web development applications and tools are free or open-source. Yes, many excellent web design applications still cost, yet can be worth paying for.
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Script Name: Bible Search
Script URI: http://www.christian-web-masters.com/2006/08/25/bible-search/
Web Service URI: http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/share/services/
Description: Bible Search PHP Script Based on the ESV (English Standard Version) Web Service
Features include:
1. Search results on your website
2. Seach by Passage reference (e.g., John 1 or Gen 16)
3. Find Verses
a. containing all the words
b. containing the exact phrase
c. not containing the words
4. Focus search by:
a. book of the Bible
b. Match
- Anywhere in words (the also finds father)
- Beginnings of words only (the also finds there but not father) - slower
- Exact matches only (the only finds the) - slower
c. Complete text of the Bible, including headings and footnotes
d. Text of the Bible only
Before you submit your site to a search engine, you may want to consider what you want the search engine "bot" (the program that indexes your site) to "spider" (follow). You may have pages with sensitive information, or a scrap directory full of pages in progress that you would not like to see listed.
This can be achieved 2 ways. The first way is with a robots.txt file placed in the root directory of your web, but you must have full domain privileges in order for this to work. I will cover the robots.txt file configuration in a later article. For an article relating to this subject:
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Introduction
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Conclusion with an important example site...
Paul says,
?You also have to consider how people enter your site - they may not visit your front page first, so making links to the visitors page(s) available throughout the site is important.?
This ten part series covers essential tools for Christian Web Desingers and webmasters.
When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation ? they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needs continuous improvement to capture and engage your visitor's attention. If not, they can easily click away to your competitor's site.
When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation ? they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needs continuous improvement to capture and engage your visitor's attention. If not, they can easily click away to your competitor's site.
There are certain things that make a web page easy to navigate and still others that will chase away visitors. Below are some tips indicating elements that should be in place in every web page in your site.
Who are you? Why do you have a web page and why should they return or do business with you? These are questions that should be answered on your title page and perhaps included in some form in every page on your site. A simple way of contacting you should be in place. One example of this is an invitation at the bottom of each page, to email comments to you, with a link that activates the email portion of the browser.
Webmasters can get excited and want to jump right into projects. They may just start designing and developing a working site, especially if it is for a small project. They figure it would be faster to just do it, than the time spent to plan it. This is a mistake!