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This web site was inspired by the Message of the Holy Father for the 36th World Communications Day with the theme: "Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel", Sunday, May 12, 2002, but published early from the Vatican, 24 January 2002, the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales. It also integrates the recent Message of Pope Benedict XVI for the 43rd World Communications Day, which calls all Catholic faithful to create a culture of respect, dialogue, and friendship in the "new digital continent".


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Articles on computing and emailing

Redirect Harmful Spam by Availing of Boxbe.com Email Service: To save on time, energy and money in dealing with unsolicited and harmful email spam, we need not purchase anti-spam applications or programs for small Catholic web site development and social networking. Using Boxbe.com's email service can help us redirect all unsolicited email messages to a public email address of our preference. It also saves us on a lot of email space in our formal web developer email inbox. Whereas before we may have taken time to delete these spam messages to reclaim the storage space of our email inbox for more formal communication, all these spam will now be redirected to a public email address which we need not open regularly as our formal web developer email inbox.

Saving an Old PC, an XP OS, and Computer Peripherals: In these times of global economic uncertainty, it would be wise to really save on money by thinking creatively of as many means and ways to save on computer systems and peripherals. The global economic stress need not hamper any Catholic, who wants to be part of Pope Benedict XVI's call to mission on evangelizing this digital continent. The ideas of saving your old PC, your XP OS and other computer peripherals can help the Catholic mission on the Net to continue despite the financial difficulties of the times.

Articles on mobile technology

2 Easy Ways of Mobile Blogging in the New Digital Continent: With the increase in the production of camera-equipped mobile phones and other handheld devices connected to the internet, blogging as a traditional form of writing content on the Web, is now an activity continued through mobile devices. Mobile blogging, or "moblog", as some writers would term the activity, is possible through 2 easy means: starting your own mobile blog or sending a blog post via e-mail to an existing blog. This article will show how these two easy ways through the blogging services of Blogger.com.

Articles on site enhancement

Embed Drop-Down Menu for Basic Catholic Web Site Development: In this article, you can get the code to embed a drop-down menu in one of your web pages. This menu can lead you to access various Catholic and Technology books, blogs, links, videos, news, and search for basic and small Catholic web site development.

Third-Party Apps from Bloglines and FriendFeed to Parse .xml Files in Multimedia Format: Transforming .xml files to .html is called parsing. Parsing involves a complexity of code. To save us on time, energy, and money, we can use the third-party apps of Bloglines and FriendFeed, to "parse" for us our site and blog feeds, and all other multimedia content, for the purpose of basic and small Catholic web site development.

15 Easy Steps to Place Google Custom Search for Your Site: Part of producing a very usable web site design is to have a search box on the upper right-hand corner of the home page. For advanced web developers, they may have the know-how to design their own search box application. But for basic and small Catholic web site development, we need not study the complex code to needed to produce a search application on our site, because Google has designed a customized search application for small web site developers to place on their site. This custom search box includes the presentation of Google AdSense in the search results. Those who search your site will be given additional relevant information through the ads. Given in this article are the 15 easy steps needed to place a Google Custom Search application for your site.

Articles on web content writing

21 Leads to Better Catholic Web Content Development: To offer a better service of Catholic content to readers, we can integrate real-time news events with references from Catholic history and traditions. This type of content will be relevant, because of its up-to-date news information, and also have ample space for deeper thought, through the references to the Church's history and traditions. The key to produce such content is good timing, adequate classic Catholic literary sources, and a good real-time publishing system.

The Net of the Fishermen: "Thinking with the Church": One of St. Ignatius of Loyola's contributions to the Church in a set of rules and some counsels for "thinking with the Church". His good example can help develop in us an outlook which thinks with the Church, so that Catholics can obey the authority of the Church in matters relating to orthodox thinking and ethical standards of acting. This article will mention Church documents to help Catholics on the Net follow ethical guidelines and norms in the use of the internet. The documents mentioned can guide any Catholic individual or family to proclaim the gospel on the Net, and to promote a culture of respect, dialogue and friendship in the "new digital continent".

Articles on web 2.0 and social networking

Networking with Catholics in the New Digital Continent: Social networking is very popular that many would immeditately equate the activity of networking to sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, and Hi5. However, to engage in networking on the Web in its fullest and complete sense, knowledge of basic and small Catholic web site development is necessary. As a web developer, we can be part of the very fabric in which the Web was woven since its conception. And we can give and share more with others, as the learning process of web development can lead anyone into greater productivity - forming us to become part of the vanguards of the Web's evolution from a Catholic context and perspective.

8 Basic and Small Catholic Social Networking Techniques: This article lists down eight different techniques and ideas for building a small Catholic social network online. The eight techniques and ideas are: the magic number 150; the magic of altruism on the Web; networking with Catholics loyal to the Pope; networking from "the roots"; keeping your social network profiles private; networking with cost-effective systems; keeping up-to-date with the Church on the internet; and building your network at a conservative pace.

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