Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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If you’re at AAB/SBL and are part of blogging or social media communities around religion and other things etc. then James McGrath has proposed catching up at a couple of the receptions. I’m planning to get to at least one of these. Should be fun. Details at the link below. Social Mediators at #AARSBL19 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2019/11/social-mediators-at-aarsbl19.html…
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This looks like a helpful site with advice for setting up the WordPress content management system. It’s aimed at non-profits, but some useful basic information there. Source: Nonprofit WP: WordPress Guide for Nonprofits
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One of my tasks for getting the blog back up and going is to look at how software for the Mac, Windows and iOS has progressed over the past few years. I like using a client to write blog posts, rather than sitting in the WordPress editor in the web browser. It allows me to…
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Darren posts a thoughtful piece on social networking over at Social Networking and Safety | Youth Ministry Blog
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Various learning management systems (LMS) like Moodle allow you to create online activities like quizzes and polls as part of the course content and engagement. But what do you do if you need something like that but you don’t have access to an LMS that does it or you need to put that content in…
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Useful Problogger article on different ways of getting a design for your blog – from the free through to the expensive. See Problogger: How Do I Get a Professionally Designed Blog?
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Turning MS Word files into web pages can be a really painful experience – particularly if you have to go through them by hand looking to change or modify them. I’ve had some days when I’ve given up trying to get Word content into a nice web format and just gone and recoded the content…
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Adobe make a version of Photoshop – Photoshop Express – available as a free web-based application adding yet another application type to the burgeoning area of free web apps offered to allow companies like Microsoft, Google and Adobe carve out their own corner of the internet – and hence a source of consumers to manage…
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Problogger, Darren Rowse, publishes his list of useful blogging tools for Mac OS X. I use (or have tried many of them) – Ecto (article editor which I have on both Mac and Windows), CyberDuck (FTP client), ImageWell (for quick manipulation and posting of images) and Firefox. I prefer TextWrangler over TextEdit though (I used…
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I use NetNewsWire Lite to keep up with my blog feeds, though I’ve never felt the need to upgrade to the full version. Now, however, the full version of NetNewsWire is being released for free as its developer focuses upon growing their online services. So, if you you’re running Mac OS X 10.4 or later…