How to Make

Websites
 Outline
● Survey
● Sample Websites
● Benefits of Having a Website
● How to Have a Website
● Comparison of Website and Print
● How to Promote Your Website
● Common Questions
● Terms
● Security
● Video
 How to make websites
Questions
 how many have an email address?
 How many have internet at homes? At work?
Mobile?
 How many have friendster? Facebook? Other
social networking sites? How many have less
than 100 friends? 100-500 friends, 500-2000
friends?
 How to make websites
Questions
 How many have a blog?
 How many have a video of themselves
somewhere in the internet?
 How many know somebody who is in the
websites / web development business?
 Sample websites
● rightlytrained.org
● discoveries08.org
● audioverse.org
● gycweb.org
● faithcamponline.org
● adventist.ph
● ssd.org
● ssdoutlook.org
 Sample websites
http://www.egwestate.org
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/religious/
http://www.amazingfacts.org/
http://www.sharpeningthesword.net/
 Benefits of having a website
● help donors find you
● more adventist websites linking to each other
means more prominent position in search
engine results
● publishing audio and video of
evangelism/revival efforts expands the effect of
the effort because people who were not able to
attend can download the videos
 Benefits of having a website
●  your efforts will continue to benefit others in
the future (as much as we are benefitting from
the videos we download from the internet)
●  if God can use a circumstance to cause a TV
to tune in only to 3abn, or a parrot to make a lot
of noise when TV is tuned to a different channel
than adventist channel, or a donkey talking,
then God might use your website to bring
people closer to Him
●  websites are a big opportunity to tell the
world about God's workings in our lives
 How to have a website?
● Ask a professional (freelancer or company) to
do it
● do it yourself
 How to do it yourself
● easy
● blog (blogger.com, etc)
● social networking websites (facebook, friendster,
etc)
● automated website making (webs.com,
sites.google.com)
● facebook
 How to do it yourself
● more controllable / customizable
● learn HTML,CSS, photo editing
● get a domain name and webhosting service
 How to do it yourself
● more dynamic
● ask designer to draw your site
● ask web programmer/company to translate the
drawing into a CMS theme
● use CMS (content management system) to
add/update/manage your site content
 Comparison of website & print
● both are “publishing” ”communicating” “mass
communication”
● there are many ways to store, retrieve, and
transmit God's word: human memory &
word of mouth (word), tables of stone
(10commandments), papyrus (scrolls),
modern paper (book), computers (e.g. E-
sword) / cellphones / internet
 Comparison of website & print
● anyone can put anything in the internet
● zero cost of publication, replication
● audience is the whole world
● websites is easier to correct & update
● no page limit in websites
● easier to search, easier to cross reference
other material, easier to check if it has been
copied from elsewhere
How to promote your website, (and
other adventist websites)
● submit it to search engines
(google.com/addurl, addme.com, etc)
● have a descriptive domain name / URL
● use meta tags
● make your site useful to others
● suggest it to people who might benefit from
your website
● include a link in your email signature
How to promote your website, (and
other adventist websites)
● the more links (from other websites) to your
website, the more popular your website is
● make it your status in YM, post it on social
networking sites (friendster, facebook, etc)
● look for people in forums who have questions
and point them to answers from SDA
websites (discoveries08.org topics, or
bibleanswerslive, or bibleinfo.com, etc)
 Other Principles
● use technology but focus on mission
● respect intellectual property rights
● encourage everyone to have their own
website / blog telling people how wonderful
God is
● the more adventist websites there are, the
higher the probability of someone stumbling
upon an adventist website
 Common Questions
● how to get internet in remote places? (how to
get free internet? {SM})
● What's best internet service provider?
● What's best webhosting provider?
● How to escape using pirated software?
 Sample testimony from SCLC
website
“The more I sought for the truth, the more the
Lord led me to the His real, true church. I did
personal Bible studies and the Holy Spirit finally
impressed in my heart that the Seventh Day
Adventist Church is the true church.”
http://www.news.southcentralluzonconference.org/joh
 Sample testimony from SCLC
website
Now that I know the truth, the next challenge was finding a church.
I tell you, it was a struggle indeed! I had no idea who to ask.
Surely, I can’t ask my Protestant friends lest they get alarmed and
prevent me from going. It was as if I was looking for a river in a
desert. The only solution I saw was the internet. I spent days
surfing the net looking for a church near UP, but the only website
that popped up was Liliw Seventh-Day Adventist Church. It was
way too far for me! But the Lord placed in my heart to contact
Liliw. I placed a comment on their website, asking if they know a
Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Los Baños. One of the visitors
referred me to South Central Luzon Conference and I emailed to
them my situation. After a few days, one of the pastors contacted
me and told me the directions to Los Baños church. At last! Days of
searching and searching would soon be over!
http://www.news.southcentralluzonconference.org/johan.html
 laboratory
● Creating a website options:
● sites.google.com
● webs.com
● HTML
● google.com/addurl (yahoo, bing also)
 Terms
● HTML ● bandwidth
● http ● CSS
● https ● SEO
● blog ● FBML
● hosting ● embed
● web design ● MITM
● programmer ● jpeg/gif/png
● CMS ● ping
 Terms
● DNS
● domain
● registrar
● passwords
 security
● password strength
● logout
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