Catholic Networking in the New Digital Continent: Web Development Methods for Catholic Bloggers and Site Owners

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Affordable Web Hosting Services for Small Catholic Web Site Development

Introduction

This site and its Catholic network began to be built in 12 May 2002, with the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thespiritslove. Since then, the site had opportunities to avail of three web hosting services. In the use of these services, this article will share brief web hosting reviews to assist interested Catholic individuals and families to choose the web host they prefer when they decide to be part of the universal Catholic mission of proclaiming the gospel on the Net. Each web hosting service has its specific features and advantages.

Bravenet.com Web Hosting Review

After the first Catholic web site with Yahoo! Web Hosting, in April 2005, the site created a second Catholic web site to strengthen the Catholic network at Yahoo! Since Bravenet.com's free web hosting service had already been a part of this Catholic network, it was natural to decide (like with Yahoo's free web hosting service, Geocities) and purchase a web hosting package with Bravenet.com.

With Bravenet.com hosting the second Catholic web site, the network was able to promote a free Catholic eBook - an eBook which promoted the web developer methods you now find in this new site. Bravenet.com helped to harvest a lot of eBook subscribers for our Catholic network. At the same time, it extended the reach of the Catholic network with Yahoo! to Bravenet.com's network.

With Bravenet.com's web hosting service, you can manually upload a WordPress blog software. This move helped obtain knowledge in basic web development. Compared to Yahoo! Web Hosting (basic), Bravenet.com supports more file extensions - especially the .exe file extension required for promoting a Catholic eBook on Catholic web developer methods.

If you are interested in a web hosting service that supports many file extensions - especially the .exe file extension to promote an eBook - then Bravenet.com is a very good web hosting service to employ. With one WordPress blog installed, and a free Catholic eBook to promote your Catholic network, Bravenet.com can expand the services you want to provide to Catholic individuals and families.

1and1.com Web Hosting Review

In June 2007, the global economy showed already some signs and indicators that would prefigure what would happen in mid-2008. Because of the sudden changes on the Web, the site had to change its web hosting services. One major factor for the new selection was a web hosting service that would help cutback on operational costs. An ethical SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Techniques teacher promoted always 1and1.com web hosting service in her SEO class. Taking her advice, this Catholic network opened its second web site at 1and1.com web hosting service, under the new domain name gospel-and-culture.info.

Unlike Yahoo! Web Hosting and Bravenet.com Web Hosting, 1and1.com hosted the second Catholic web site on a Linux-based server. This gave opportunities to learn about Active Server Pages (.ASP) - a server-side scripting language that is supported by a Linux-based server. With ASP, the Catholic network was able to promote better its free Catholic eBook on basic and small Catholic web site development. 1and1.com web hosting service was able to make the second Catholic web site more interactive - obtaining a wider reach of searchers online.

If you are interested with more interactivity for your Catholic web site, then 1and1.com can help you with their support of .exe file extensions for a Catholic eBook, and .asp web pages needed to create interactive email forms. This favorable combination of .exe and .asp will make it easy to obtain potential eBook subscribers.

Philhosting.Net Web Hosting Review

The year 2008 proved to be very challenging year to operate a small Catholic web site, especially within a global economic environment that entered into serious crises. The second Catholic web site with 1and1.com web hosting service had to be closed down. And it became even more challenging because the first Catholic web site with Yahoo! went down. For the first time, the loss of two Catholic web sites, meant a loss of two important networks and contacts online. Fortunately, through social networking at Facebook.com, the Catholic network found moral support to begin again.

With prices skyrocketing everywhere, a low-cost web hosting service was much needed. This time, the solution was not in web hosting services based abroad, but with a local web hosting service: Philhosting.Net. With Philhosting.Net, the Catholic network was able to rebuild itself again and start to build a new social network with Facebook.com.

Philhosting.Net is a good web hosting service. When you inquire by email what file extensions they support (aside from the standard .html file extension), they will provide you with the basics for a small Catholic web site: .swf, .psd, .fla, .jpg, .php, and .exe file extensions. In October 28, 2008, the site was rebuilt at Philhosting.Net with an initial 100MB file storage Windows-based web hosting service, with the domain www.c-web-developer.net. In February 2009, the site shifted to an web hosting service that provided even lower operating costs - one using a Linux-based web server. This web hosting package is called Personal Light. The shift to this new web hosting service cut the operating costs of the web site and gave it the opportunity to expand well on the Web.

Download our free Catholic eBook

If you want to learn more about the web developer methods learned by this Catholic site and its network, you can download the free Catholic eBook provided in this site. It is easy to download to your desktop and request a password to access the contents of the eBook.

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Get ideas and updates on basic and small Catholic web site development, blogging, social networking, and web applications from:

  • Friendfeed: Provides content ideas from Catholic news and technology updates
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  • A post at Catholic Internet Mission blog periodically summarizes all the articles and content in the Network feed. To visit, search or subscribe to the blog, click here
  • Search Network: Search the network for ideas to write Catholic articles and to post to blogs.

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