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This Catholic web site obtained its inspired from 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.

In response to the call, web developer methods for Catholics are employed for basic and small web site development. These methods also integrate new social networking techniques as a means to promote a culture of peace, respect, dialogue, and friendship in the new digital continent.

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Articles on basic web development

Keys to Make Your Catholic Blog, Site and Network Click: This article gives some hints and clues to make your web development in the Catholic Web click. Eight keys are given: being charitable; writing honestly; helping others in the Catholic Web progress; practicing generosity; creating a system for fruitful work; making growth happen by fixing site hassles and issues; taking a modest and surer route in obtaining visitor traffic; and finding a right balance to obtain good appearance and useful content in a web page.

How to Place Color in Your Scrollbars: Making a page aesthetically-pleasing to a reader can generate repeat visits to the page. One way of accomplishing this is to create a color design for your scrollbars. You can do this for some of your pages to have an outstanding appearance, compared to the other pages of your web site. Pages that have colored scrollbars can provide a refreshing experience for readers, especially when you discover a good color combination through the customization of color codes.

Produce Content and Process Link Exchanges Conservatively: A conservative approach to producing web content and blog posts is part of good web site development and blogging for the long term. This also applies to link exchange requests which need to be processed gradually - link by link. The reason for these strategies is to write really good and unique content, and to prevent spamming the search engines with content and blog posts that may duplicate one another. Also, in exchanging links with other site owners who have relevant information to your own site, will prove more beneficial in the long term. Working for long term results in both web content writing and in link exchange processes will make your Catholic networking online worth it.

Preparing Your Small Catholic Web Site for HTML 5.0: As of the time of this article's writing, the latest draft (August 2009) of HTML5.0, is documented at the W3C HTML Specifications and Timeline. For small Catholic web site owners who started building their site on HTML4, this news is one very important update: HTML5 may be the next Web standard, and may be made official sooner than we realize. Though HTML5 is still in draft, and is continuously being discussed by an HTML Working Group, the inevitable scenario that it would be the next HTML standard of the Web, will make web site owners aware and prepare well for the needed adjustments to their site pages.

More Web Security Measures for the Catholic Networker and Web Developer, 05/24/10: An early article on web security is published in this site with the title, "8 Security Tips for Basic Catholic Web Site Development". It has been a year since that article has been published, and security concerns on the Web have been heightened even more. This article will continue from the security measures suggested in "8 Security Tips", and suggest additional security measures that are important and vital to consider in the present times. The suggestions listed in this article are specifically meant for Catholic networkers and web developers who work on a very small budget, and simply trust in the basic security given by free antivirus softwares online.

Articles on blogging

17 Ideas for Blogging and Writing Catholic Articles: An effective Catholic blog title can be the springboard for a good Catholic blog. Here are 17 ideas for Catholic blog titles. You can create one of your own from these 17 ideas.

Articles on mobile technology

Post Images and Photos to Web Via Mobile Phone: There seems to be three major trends in which the Web is going: cloud computing, HTML5, and mobile web development. The last trend mentioned, mobile web development, is popularly leading the Web. This involves creating applications for mobile browsers, making your site configured to mobile browsing, and various technology that make the mobile phone an instrument as essential as the desktop PC, notebooks, netbooks, and lap tops.

Articles on web content writing

Generate Beneficial Visitor Traffic - Writing Timely Content: The life of a web site depends on its growth in visitor traffic. One way to contribute to this growth is by writing timely articles and blog posts. The means to produce these timely content are the following: foresight; continuous updating on Catholic and technology news; using the human faculty of intuition; "thinking outside the box" in order to "expand the box"; and growing beneficial visitor traffic without losing a web site's stability and its rootedness in the traditions of the Web.

Articles on Web 2.0 and social networking

A Simple Method of Networking with Catholics in the Web: This simplified method of networking with Catholics in the Web is especially meant for: 1. business people and professionals who have full work schedules, but who also want to join the lay Catholic mission in the Web; 2. newcomers in the Web who need an easy method of Catholic networking to begin with; 3. anyone who is computer-literate, but needs a simplified method and affordable means to be part of Catholic networking in the Web.

5 Vital Privacy Settings to Consider Thoroughly in Facebook: If Facebook is one of the social networking sites you want to build a basic and small Catholic social network, then here are a few suggestions and tips to help you build that network with permanence and stability. These suggestions and tips relate to the Privacy Settings of your account at Facebook. When Facebook's membership grew to approximately 350 million as of December 2009, the site has formalized well the privacy settings needed by many of its members. The suggestions and tips given in this article can also lessen the security risks of your account with Facebook.com.

Dovetailing Your RSS Feed Technology to Web2.0: Twitter, Facebook, etc.: The popularity of Twitter, Facebook and social bookmarking sites, as a system for content distribution, relegated rss feed technology to the background. However, there is a way to save your site's rss feed technology, so that it can be part of web2.0's content distribution technology. One way of doing this is getting the new official Twitter "tweet" button, and placing it in a page that contains the items of your parsed feed. You can also place Facebook "Like" or "Recommend" buttons and other social bookmarking buttons in this page.

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