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  • Father Chip 6:29 AM on August 4, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: Welcome to our new site   

    Our new site is officially up and running and we would like to hear your comments and suggestions.

    Generally, our goal is to allow the site to reflect the tempo of the parish by updating the photos, calendar events and spiritual rhythm of the community. We also want to offer spiritual tools that will help feed your faith each time you visit our site, We intend to keep our Christian Music library current while maintaining a copious archive of past offerings.

    This Church Chat room is intended to reflect other social media in that it allows the member to bring topics and questions to the room for consideration and comment. It is envisioned as light and joyful; spiritually uplifting and inspirational. We can save the heavier lifting for specific topical categories.So as we begin this new cyber journey together please feel free to “chime in” and let us know what your thinking.

    I’d like to thank our web designer, Chuck Scott, owner/creator of the Avanti Group, who has worked very hard on this new site. Last year we commissioned Chuck to make our site state of the art, cutting edge and user friendly. I think we would agree that we are certainly moving in the right direction. “KUDOS” to you Chuck! Keep up the good work.

    So, come on in… take a look around… kick the tires … look under the hood… let us know what you think.

    Fr Chip

     
  • Chuck Scott 9:31 PM on April 26, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: emoticon, smilies, tech   

    Fun with Smileys and … 

    So you see these fun Smileys around the web and wonder, “Hey – how can I add happy faces, sad faces, eek faces, shock faces, cool faces, etc. faces to my Church Chat posts ..??..”

    Short answer = easy :)

    All you have to do is type two or three keys on your keyboard to represent the graphic smiley icon you want to appear when your blog post is displayed and voila – smiley of your choice appears in your post!

    e.g., if you want a happy face to appear at end of a paragraph, then end your paragraph with a blank space and type a colon followed by a parentheses -> save -> voila -> :mrgreen: … technically this face s/b -> :)

    Smiles are fun to use but like many things – best used in moderation and akin to exclamation marks (e.g., too many over states) ….

    So you ask, “Hey Chuck, how do I know what letters to type to get a cool face or any other smiley face in my Church Chat posts?”

    Great question – here is official site with letters and corresponding Smiley faces:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies

    Smileys are also known as emoticons and you can read more here ->

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

    ps – Automatically make your Church Chat links clickable … just type in full url – e.g., h t t p bla bla bla … vs starting with w w w bla bla bla …

    thus gotta have fully qualified url -> h t t p : / / -> in order for it to be hot linked automatically …

     
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