You may want to check out the savings available by ordering software, computers and other products through the United Methodist Communications' TECHSHOP. Significant discounts are offered to United Methodist organizations on products supplied by Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Insight and Cisco. Go to their web site at www.techshopministry.org.

Blue Squirrell software (www.bluesquirrel.com) has a product called "ClickBook".  It will format not only a booklet, but virtually any other type of document, including reducing or enlarging to fit whatever paper size you want to use.

You still have to lay out the material the way you want it to appear, but you can use Word or any page layout program to do that.  Clickbook doesn't let you manipulate the content of the document, but it does the formating, pagination, etc. and does it quite well.

Since most church events are public, you do not need to obtain permission to take people's photos. If you are concerned about permission, then get it if you are going to use a photo of an individual. However, if you are using a group photograph taken at a public event, you do not need to obtain permission.

However, you do want to have a policy about how you identify children and youth. One suggestion is to not identify children ages 3 or younger by name, identify older children by first name only. Adults may be identified with full names. If you are taking photos of children with special needs, you may need to obtain permission.

For links to other United Methodist web sites, visit our "Links" page. Links are listed by categories in a drop-down menu.

 

HTML basix

http://www.htmlbasix.com/     They have tutorials, script generators and lots of good stuff.

Thomas Brunt's Outfront

http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/getting_started/newbie_tips.htm  Mr. Brunt also offers tutorials for FrontPage users and an introduction to CSS.

 

 

 

 

Spyare is a problem.  One of the best and free is Ad-Aware, they consistently get good reviews.  You can visit their site at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download to learn more and get a copy.  It's easy to use and they provide free updates as well to keep it current.

Another decent program (which some people may prefer, but is not nearly as user friendly, but again free) is Spyboy Search and Destroy at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html. 

 

 

The Upper Room dialy devotion is syndicated, which means that there are a few line of code that can be added to your webpage to get the Upper Room daily devotion on your website and to update automatically.  Upper Room has handed off syndication to UMCom.org.  See http://www.umcom.org/pages/news.asp?class=2&ID=588&product_id=0

There are several options for the Upper Room feed.

To open, view and print out a .pdf file, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader TM installed on your computer. When Adobe Acrobat Reader TM has been installed, just click on the underlined titles that appear above.

To download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat ReaderTM, please go to www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

If you have Windows 2000 installed on your computer, you will need to install Acrobat 5.0.5 or a newer version. For this update go to www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/update.html.

Guidelines for submitting information for www.awfumc.org:

• All new material for the web site should be submitted in an electronic format. We can accept information in the following document formats: Microsoft Word, PDF, or e-mail text. We cannot accept files in WordPerfect; but the content of WordPerfect files may be copied and pasted into the body of an e-mail message for submission.
• Photos may still be submitted as prints but are preferred as high-resolution .jpg or .gif files. Prints or disks should be mailed to Mary Catherine Phillips, 100 Interstate Park Drive, Suite 120, Montgomery, AL 36109.
• Files may be submitted via e-mail to marycatherine@awfumc.org or on a disk mailed to Mary Catherine Phillips, 100 Interstate Park Drive, Suite 120, Montgomery, AL 36109.
• All new material for the web site must be submitted through the Director of Communications.