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Net Etiquette 1: Click HERE

Websites / blogs / e-mails / forums are increasingly a part of modern life. One side-effect is information overload.

There are ways in which people can contribute to the net that help with this. There are ways that do not help. This is the first of a series of short posts that plead for considerate net use. I’m sure nobody is deliberately obstructive in any of the ways I will outline. In which case, people need to point out what consitutes good etiquette and why – otherwise considerate people will continue making cyberspace more difficult to navigate – without realising it.

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Pitta Bread?

I get so many bizarre search-engine queries leading to hits on my websites that there are too many to mention.

But one of my favourites has to be the one from today: the person searching for why do pitta breads last so long who ended up on the website for Edible Words

Each to their own!

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New colour scheme?

Yes – but it’s no big deal!

Partly, I can’t quite decide what I like.

Partly, Edible Words is nearly ready to launch, and the colour scheme I chose for myself was converging a little too close to the scheme for that site. My scheme was chosen on a whim. The scheme for Edible Words was chosen quite deliberately (if you’ve been there you’ll know why Burgundy Red and Ripe-Grain Gold were the two colours I went for). So mine was the one to budge.

But I still can’t quite decide what I like, so this may not be the end of it…

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Sermons Section

I’ve now moved the “sermons” section of my old website onto this new site.

I’ve taken advantage of doing this to get a number of things done:

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Drumroll for the blogroll

As promised, this site now has a blogroll on it.

Truth be told, I read more blogs than this. I’ll add more later. But now I’ve got the structures in place, that’s easy.

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New site layout II

When I first posted about my new site layout it was a brief post because I simply needed to make the announcement.

I promised more explanation for those who were interested, so here it is.

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Drupal Planet

What brings people to a website can be somewhat unexpected

One hit on the website Edible Words came from a search on live.com.

The visitor was looking for answers to the question Was John Calvin a Mason.

They ended up reading Matthew Mason‘s fine article on John Calvin‘s theology of the Lord’s Supper.

Honestly – who needs fiction?

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New site layout

Just a quick post to state the obvious – I’ve given my blog an overhaul.

Technical details to follow later, but for now please leave me a comment to let me know what you think – especially if you have any problems.

I while ago, I had to turn off anonymous comments, due to the volumes of spam. Now I’ve found a way to implement a CAPTCHA, I’m keen to see if I can have anonymous comments on again.

Bye for now – more later!

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Did you mean to type...?

Microsoft Word has, for as long as I remember, had a feature whereby spelling can be checked. A red squiggly line underneath the text indicates spelling errors.

Then they added the option

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Bye bye, Sitemeter

Technical post.

For several years I have used the free analytics services of SiteMeter. Basically, they allow you to analyse how many hits your website receives, and you can look at things like what country people visit from, what web browser they use. There is nothing sinister about such data – it is freely available to the owner of any and every website you visit – it’s in the server logs.

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