When it was all said and done, it was quite easy... it just took some intense pre-planning. The premise is simple:

• Import a sitemap
• Import any content relative to the pages
• Use Flash to DOM calls to control URL management
• Redirect incoming URLs to correct Flash content

As for the code and the specifics, I can't yet convince myself to pass it out to the masses. If you are nice and would like to ask for it, though, I may be willing to trade :)

For an example of Flash Bookmarking in action, visit the new Red Red Design studio website portfolio.

Cell phones are even used by church-goers during the service, so I am working on an idea to allow texting of prayer requests during the service.  Maybe this will make all their playing worth while, and it will also serve as a new way to continually keep people connected.  The prayer requests will be accessible as an XML news feed, which will be useful not only during the service, but also on the site and on any potential prayer screens we may have located around the church campus.

In addition to receiving text messages, I also hope to make information and announcements on the website more accessible through RSS news feeds of all updates and enhanced mass mailers/texters.

Also, I thought I would throw in "Fuel" in the title.  One of my coworkers and I are thinking about ways to take the 710 house off the electric grid and make it run on alternative energy.  For starters, we will be playing with pedal bikes that will run or monitors.  We hope to make them from old bikes and other junk that people have.  After that we hope to implement methods by which to actually power the whole house, including Veggie oil.  Yes, we both have been watching Invention Nation on the Science channel.

"This year’s card featuring an interactive tour of ornaments adorning a Christmas tree was designed by Red Red Design’s Steve Knowlton, a 2007 AU graduate. “He’s a very bright, talented designer,” Box said."

Read the whole article here:
Ashland University Ecard Press Release

## This shows how to automatically update the copyright year
lib.copyright = TEXT
lib.copyright.data = date:U
lib.copyright.strftime = %Y
lib.copyright.wrap = © | {$constant.siteName}

####################################

### Put the Latest News in the left column on certain pages
[PIDinRootline = 100,102]
lib.latestNews < plugin.tt_news
lib.latestNews {        

code >        
code = LATEST        
pid_list >        
pid_list = 31 # the folder where news are stored        
catImageMode = 0        
catTextMode = 0 

}
lib.leftSide < lib.latestNews
[else] # Put something else in the lib.leftSide
temp.leftSide = TEXT
temp.leftSide.value = Hello
lib.leftSide < temp.leftSide

We did two options this year, allowing people to purchase either the custom cards or the "personalizable" cards. The custom ones are built from the ground up, such as the 2007 Ashland University card, the 2007 EMI Music Publishing card, and the 2007 Student Loans Express card. Over previous years, we have also made the 2004 Ashland University card, which has over 7 MILLION VIEWS, and is getting about 500,000 hits a day right now.  Last year we sent out our 2006 Red Red Design card, and that is still going crazy on the hits.

The personalizable cards allow users to submit a message, greeting, logo and links that we incorporate into the card.  No, this is better than a Hallmark eCard, and we have put many hours in here to make them look very good.  Check them out here:

2007 - Bermuda Hospital

2007 - Allegany College

2007 - Nyack College of NYC

For example, I am soon going to be taking on a media position within Park Street Brethren Church, as I have concluded that my involvement in their website at work could compliment the slides and media within the church.  In an effort to make things much easier, I am scheming up methods by which church staff will only need update the events and notifications on the main website, and during the service we will simply feed that information onto the projector.

Stay tuned to see if I come up with any useful ways to make technology our friend instead of another burden.

I went ahead I installed it on my server.  It was only about 10MB unzipped to upload, which makes uploading easy and fast.  After that, I navigated to the site in my browser.  After inputing a little info about my MYSQL database, I had a site.

I will say that it seems quite different in concept from TYPO3.  First off, I am used to a easily editable sitemap.  It was not quite as intuitive in Joomla, but once I found the location to create new pages, they were easily generated.  Unfortunately, it looks as if the pages must be specified as a certain type of content upon creation, such as blog or news.

I will continue to look at Joomla, especially as they are coming out with a new version soon.  Check back soon to see my continuing experiments with Joomla.

I started at the beginning, a very good place to start.  It seemed logical to go through everything on my desktop and sort it into the correct folders within my system.  BUT, I was a little too busy to do that when I was thinking of it. So i just put everything into a "Desktop Crap" folder.  Surprisingly, within a week it was all full of files again.

I am currently trying out a little App called Hazel.  It is pretty sweet, as it looks at whatever lands on my desktop and, according to rules I configure, it will sort the files automatically.  It also dumps anything in my trash for more than a week, and sets a limit on the size of my trashcan.  Now if I could get it to do my dishes.

Here's how it works.  CAPTCHA generally makes a little image with scrambled letters an shows it on a login form or the like.  You have to type that in so the site knows you are not a robot :). But these guys are beating that by having some real human type that in for the online spam bots.

I think this is really smart, smart enough that they could get a real job that is not in their mother's basement.  But they are probably too ugly to be seen in the light of day.

Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307396,00.html