 Integrate More Web2.0 in Small Catholic Web Site Development
Introduction
In the years previous to more participative and social environment on the Web,
it was easy to develop an information-rich site - one that can obtain a lot of
targetted traffic and repeat visitors from Catholics online. All that you need
to do, was to write a lot of substantial and unique content, and then apply
ethical search engine optimization for every page of the web site. At present,
this is not enough, though we still need to build any small Catholic web site
from the groundwork provided by web 1.0 technology. The strategies and tactics
needed for the present technological environment of the Web, involves integrating
the technology of leading web 2.0 sites to basic and small Catholic web development.
This article will suggest four fairly recent technology from web 2.0 sites: Rememberthemilk.com,
Pageonce.com, Drop.io, and FriendFeed.com.
Rememberthemilk.com - a ToDo web site
This web site presents pages that are clear, clean-cut, and simple. You can
make this to-do list manager, record all the special tasks that are not
part of your daily routine. You can separate and organize these special tasks
into three basic categories: Personal, Study, and Work. The site does not
limit us to just three categories. It can also allow customization so that
you can create your own categories for your specific computer work needs.
Rememberthemilk.com offers a unique service that can be used both ways: for
web development and for other business-related computer tasks. It can deliver
these tasks directly to your email inbox so that you can easily be reminded of
special tasks. Another unique feature of Rememberthemilk.com is its ability to
publish various tasks as a news feed. Both these features can help you schedule
web development studies in the "Study" category, and schedule web work in
the "Work" category. Then you can subscribe to the feed that will publish these
special tasks as you have scheduled them. If you use Firefox as one of your browsers,
you can simply get the URL of the feed given in the dashboard of the
Rememberthemilk.com site, and subscribe to it. It would then be integrated in
the dashboard of the Firefox browser.
Pageonce.com - Organizing online accounts into one page
This web site has the ability to bring all of your accounts in one
dashboard so that are easily accessible. As you register for an account,
you can then use the options given and choose all the accounts online
you to be bring together into one dashboard. These options are available
in six categories: Finance, Shopping, Utilities, Social, Travel, and Email.
There is a lot of potential for the services provided by the Pageonce.com web
site. As you are able to learn well the basics of small Catholic web site development,
and then progress gradually to more advanced levels, you can surely go back to
this web site and integrate more accounts related to web development and
other web work.
Drop.io - Online storage and file sharing
Drop.io is a "store and share file" web site that can accommodate up to 100 MB
of pictures, video, audio, documents, or any file you want to store and share
from a personal folder. All you need to do to register for a free account
in the site is to give a seven alphanumeric name (which the site will transform
as your own URL for the web site - example: http://drop.io/7jkm8NV). You can
then share this URL with family and friends.
Drop.io is also a good resource for small Catholic web site development. You can
store any file that you have used in developing your site. For greater security
purposes, it would be best to store files which are only supplemental to your
web development work (such as references and resources you have used in web
content development). You can store also the codes of third-party applications
that you have used in your web pages.
Friendfeed.com - Content sharing and social networking listing
Because there are many content sharing and social networking sites that exist now,
it is difficult to keep track and to be updated of what is happening to those you
know in these networks. If you are a member of many content sharing and social
networking sites, Friendfeed.com can now bring all the updates you have in these
web sites into one feed. The feed lists down all the updates from the most recent
to the least recent.
For small Catholic web site development purposes, you can include your
web site's feed and blog in Friendfeed.com. As you register an account for
content sharing and social networking, add also all web 2.0 sites you
are part of to be listed in Friendfeed.com. Then, you can get the Friendfeed.com
widget to embed it in any page of your site and blog (the best page to place it is
the homepage). The widget will update your readers of any new
content or links you have posted to your own web site and blog, and from your
other social networking sites. FriendFeed aggregates all of these in one stream
of content (with multimedia format that presents video as a small thumbnail).
There is also a simple FriendFeed badge that you can place in any web page of
your site and blog. To be able to place the badge or a widget from FriendFeed,
you have to make your FriendFeed feed public. Your FriendFeed feed will not
show if you set your feed to private.
Additional suggestions and tips
It is good to schedule all the many updates that you do in all the web 2.0
sites you have become a part of. This way, you can make small web site development
effective, efficient, and more productive. For example, in one day, you can work
on Vatican videos from YouTube.com and Catholic podcasts from Odeo.com. Then, you
can schedule your social bookmarking activities the next day through such sites as
Delicious.com and Diigo.com. And on another day, you can also work at building your
library of Catholic books and computer references at Librarything.com. Finally,
you can dedicate on certain occasions some time for networking sites like Facebook.com
and MySpace.com, also a few minutes to store and save files at Drop.io. Scheduling
tasks will save us time, energy, money and lessen the depreciation cost of our
PC desktop systems and peripherals.
Conclusion
The basics of web 1.0 technology for to build a small web site are: writing
unique content, optimizing web pages, analyzing web site statistics,
engaging in reciprocal linking, and submitting your web and blog site to
various directories. In the present technology environment, to advance and progress
in small web site development, there is a need to choose well which sites to
integrate so that your web development work uses up-to-date technology: for good
online organization of study and work; for putting all your online accounts into one
dashboard; for online storage and file sharing; and for listing all the content
you have written, and the updates you have made with your social networking
activities. These you accomplish through the very useful web 2.0 sites:
Rememberthemilk.com, Pageonce.com, Drop.io, and Friendfeed.com.
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Dennis Emmanuel Cabrera
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