Links

Episcopal Church Links

An independent journal covering the worldwide Anglican Communion, updated weekly. This site advertises more than 10,000 links, and is a gold mine of information.

Episcopal Church, USA The official web site for the national church

Anglican Communion The official web site of the Anglican Communion

The Episcopal News Service News items form the Episcopal Church and from around the world

Liturgical Calendar with links to lectionary readings

The Book of Common Prayer Online with links to other national prayer books

The Church Publishing Company Your source for prayer books and hymnals

Episcopal Life The monthly newspaper published by the Epsicopal Church USA

The Image Shop Source of Episcopal shields and logos for your web site

Peak through the Window of the Episcopal Church

General Church Links

Bible Gateway Search the full text of the Bible in the translation of your choice

Web Authoring Resources

Tutorials

HTMLDog HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, Articles and News

W3Schools Tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and a wide variety of web technologies

Heal Your Church Website dot com Dean Peters posts his own virtual 95 Theses to the door of the Internet

Church123.com A British supplier of web site templates provides a series of articles on web site design specifically aimed at churches

Online Web Magazines

Webmonkey Start here. Excellent source of tutorials for the beginner. Covers a wide variety of authoring techniques and web technologies.

A List Apart State of the art web techniques. Make sure to search the archive.

Evolt.org Articles and browser archive for testing

Tools

W3C HTML Validator Validate your HTML

W3C Link Checker Check for dead links

W3C CSS Validator Validate your CSS

CSS Zen Garden Dramatic illustration of the power of CSS

microformats.org Micro-formats save you effort and help standardize your website. Improve the effectiveness of search engines and smart browsers by making information easier to find on your website.

List-o-matic Generate CSS formated lists for web links

Web Site Optimization Optimize your web site for fast downloads

CSS Discuss Forum for solving CSS problems

PNH Developer Toolbar If you develop with Mozilla, Netscape or Firefox, this toolbar will install in your browser. Don't design without it.

Color Blind Web Page Filter See what your web page looks like to people with various types of color blindness

Books

Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst. A good introduction to web page design for the besginner. See more information about the book here or download a sample chapter here.

Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman. Zeldman, who chaired the W3C's web standards committee, explains why standards are important and how to use them to create pages with the greatest odds of displaying properly in a wide variety of browsers.

Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst. Excellent reference work once you have learned the basics. Read more here or download a sample chapter here.

Articles

What is web accessibility? An introduction to accessibility

Google Optimization Advice on optimizing your site for Google listings

Throwing tables out the window Doug Bowman takes a popular home page (Microsoft) and redesigns it using CSS instead of tables. The result is a site which is reduced by 62% in size (for faster downloads) and works in all modern browsers.

Collections of Links

CSS Links CSS Resources from the CSS Zen Garden

Zeldman's links on Accessibility A great collection of links from one of the best collections of web design related resources on the net. This section focuses on accessibility.

Zeldman's links on CSS, markup and standards This section focuses on HTML, CSS and web standards.

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GiDaddy is notorious for their highly suggestive, sexually themed commericals - some so extreme, even the Superbowl refused to run them.

We feel no Christian organization should utilize GoDaddy for the same reasons churches do not accept ads in their bulletin from the local adult bookstore.

This article sums it up.

ECWH does not accept new clients who use GoDaddy for domain registration unless a registrar transfer is submitted at the time of application.

ECWH Members Include:

Grace Episcopal Church
Plainfield, New Jersey

The Assembly of Episcopal Healthcare Chaplains

Grace Episcopal Church
Spring Hill, Tennessee

St. Andrew's
Derby, Kansas

St. Andrew's Episcioal Church
Emporia, Kansas

St. John.s Episcopal Parish
Winthrop, MA

Residents Encounter Christ in Texas

Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Hampton, Virginia

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