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Aug 03

31 Great free blogging eBooks

This is not really a Christian resource at all but I know a few of my readers have their own blogs and websites and thought the post ‘31 great free e-books’ would be worth mentioning.

There is a great selection of eBooks from good usability, creating flagship content, SEO and much more. Even if you don’t want to monetize your website there are some powerful learnings to be made here that could push your website onto the next the level. That can only be good news for your readers! I’ll try to read them all for you guys ;)

Jul 03

Shorten scripture URL links with ref.ly

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Logos bible software have just produced a website called ref.ly that provides a URL shortening service for scriptures. This then links directly to the online logos bible. This may not be much use for many people but for anyone writing a Christian website it could be particularly useful.

What sets ref.ly apart from the crowd is that it works on a wide variety of different abbreviations which means it should be easy to use. Also of course it is a very short URL which makes it great for services like twitter or facebook. They provide an example of the various ways you could link to Matthew 11:25–26
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Jun 15

Executive Pastors guide to Social Media

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If you or your pastor are debating whether to get involved in social media as a church (or as individuals then Church Crunch has a very useful guide covering 10 articles. This is a particularly useful list as it covers a lot of the key questions you need to ask about using social media to ensure it supports your aims, rather than being a distraction or worse…

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Jun 06

Updated ESV Web Service API

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If you use the ESV API on your website then you’ll be pleased to know that Crossway has updated the ESV Web Service API to include the following reading plans:

ESV Study Bible
Literary Study Bible
Outreach Bible
Outreach New Testament

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Sep 11

Widget to search Bible Gateway in iGoogle and blogs

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Search the bible directly from iGoogle or your website

Trey Meier at the TWKM blog has written a great gadget/widget to add the ability to directly search bible verses from Bible Gateway from either iGoogle or you own website or blog.

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Dec 18

Asbo Jesus added to the definitive Christian clip art guide

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Asbo Jesus is a great website for Christian cartoons/clip art that is free to use as long as you link back to the website. I have reviewed Asbo Jesus in more detail in the past, but have now added it to the popular ‘Definitive guide to free Christian clip art’.

There are new pictures/cartoons each week, the one below was recently published and I thought it was superb…

Dec 15

Where to find the best free Christmas clip art

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With Christmas almost upon us you may be scouring the net trying to find the perfect Christmas themed graphics, clip art, or images for your website. But where do you go to find good quality Christmas related clip art when so many of the images are cheesy or badly designed?

Christmas trees flickr The recent ‘Definitive guide to free Christian clip art’ post from this blog is a good starting point. However a lot of these may not have great Christmas clip art (or any at all) depending on their focus.

The websites shown below are the best places on the internet I could find for Christmas clip art. Stock Exchange and Flickr tend to be more aimed at the social aspect of Christmas whereas the other websites are more likely to have nativity images. This is not a definitive rule though and there is some cross over so you may want to browse through all of the websites!

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Dec 15

Add random verses to your WordPress blog

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For anyone who hosts a blog on WordPress, Butler Blog have updated their useful bible verse plugin called Verse-O-Matic.

The basic premise of Verse-O-Matic is that it allows you to display a random verse in your blog or website. You have to add the verses you want rather than them being provided already, with just four examples included in the download.

Ease of use

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Dec 03

The definitive guide to free Christian clipart images

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Using pictures on your blog or website will make a more striking impact to your readers and make your posts instantly appealing. With so many blogs out there, it is vital to make sure that yours stands out. Using good quality images is the perfect way to compliment your well crafted posts.

Whether you are after photos, cartoon images or clip art you should be able to find what you are after in the websites shown below. Many of these images are also suitable for use in other material (e.g. Sunday school lessons etc.). To use the free images some websites may require you to create an account, whilst others may request that you give credit to them when you use the images. Some people take umbrage at this, but personally I am more than happy to give credit where it is due. Therefore, before you use any of the images just make sure you follow their ‘rules’ and don’t infringe any copyrights. However, all the websites are 100% legal and also have free plenty of free content.

Are there any websites that I’ve missed? If so please leave a comment and let everyone know your favorite site…

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Nov 01

Lots of free images from Christians Unite

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Christians Unite has absolutely loads of Christian clip art available. You could spend all day trawling through the images. Thankfully everything is well grouped so it is not difficult to find what you may be after. As you can see below, the images tend to be very traditional in nature. Whether you like this website will probably rest on that fact alone…