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RE A S O N S

TO BELIEVE



Creating a Christian

Apologetics Website

Mark Ritter Richard Deem









Sword and Spirit Ministries Evidence for God From Science

Purpose

This workshop is designed

to give you the information

you need set up your own

Christian apologetics

website. YOU can do it!





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Types of Christian

Apologetics

Science

History

Archeology

Philosophy

Cults/World Religions

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Sources of Apologetics

Materials - Books

 Scaling the Secular City - J.P. Moreland

 Christian Apologetics - Norman L. Geisler

 Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth

and Apologetics - William Lane Craig

 Handbook of Christian Apologetics -

Peter Kreeft, Ronald K.Tacelli

 Evidence That Demands a Verdict -

Josh McDowell

 The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence

for the Life of Christ - Gary R. Habermas

 Come, Let Us Reason: an Intro to

Logical Thinking - N. Geisler & R. Brook

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Sources of Apologetics

Materials - Internet Websites

 Reasons To Believe (www.reasons.org)

 Leadership University (www.leaderu.com)

 Origins (www.origins.org)

 Stand To Reason (www.str.org)

 Day Star (www.daystarcom.org)

 Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

(www.carm.org)

 Institute of Biblical Defense

(www.biblicaldefense.org)

 Miami Christian University Virtual Library

(mcu.edu/library/apologet.htm)

 The Errant Skeptics Research Institute

(www.errantskeptics.org)

 Tekton Apologetics Ministries

(www.integrityonline15.com/jpholding/tekton/)

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Sources of Apologetics

Materials - Internet Websites

 Sword and Spirit (www.swordandspirit.com)

 Evidence for God From Science

(www.godandscience.org)

 Jude3.org (www.jude3.org)

 Christianity and Science Resource Center

(www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4264/relsci.html)

 Ultimate Christian Apologetics Website

(www.home.earthlink.net/~gbl111/)

 The Big Question (TheBigQuestion.com)

 Christian Apologetics

(www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/ca.html)

 God, Genesis and the Big Bang

(www.kiva.net/~kls/index.html)

 Sean's Christian Apologetics Page

(members.tripod.com/~vantillian/main.html)

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•Cosmology •God’s Love

•Doctrine •Prophecy

•Faith •Prayer



•Cults •Design

•Theology •Creation

•Apologetics •Evolution





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Webmaster Tools

HTML editors

FTP clients

Clip art and graphics (for interest)

Animations

Java and javascripts (“cool” effects)

Miscellaneous

Site search engines

Discussion boards

free polls

counters

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HTML Editors

Commercial

Microsoft FrontPage 2000

(www.microsoft.com)

Dreamweaver (www.macromedia.com)

Hot Dog (www.sausage.com)

Homesite (www.allaire.com)

NetObjects Fusion (www.netobjects.com)

Non-Commercial (Free!)

1st Page 2000 (www.evrsoft.com)

Cool Page 2.5 (www.3Dize.com)

CoffeeCup HTML (www.coffeecup.com)

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FTP Clients

Commercial

FTP Voyager (www.ftpvoyager.com)

CuteFTP (www.cuteftp.com)

WS_FTP Pro (www.ipswitch.com)

Bullet Proof FTP (www.bpftp.com)

Non-Commercial (Free!)

WS_FTP LE (www.ipswitch.com)

FTP Explorer (www.ftpx.com)

LeechFTP (stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/)

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Clipart and Graphics

Clipart.com (www.clipart.com)

Andrew's GraphXKingdom

(www.graphxkingdom.com)

IconBazaar (www.iconbazaar.com)

A-1 Clipart Archive (www.free-

graphics.com)

Barry’s Clipart Server

(www.barrysclipart.com)

Absolutely Free Clipart

(www.allfree-clipart.com)

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Animations

Animfactory (www.animfactory.com)

IconBazaar (www.iconbazaar.com)

Animated Gifs Library

(www.animatedgif.net)

Animation City

(www.animationcity.net)

Web Developer

(www.webdeveloper.com/animations/)



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Java and Javascripts

(“cool” effects)

DynamicDrive

(www.dynamicdrive.com)

The Javascript Source

(javascript.internet.com)

Java Boutique

(javaboutique.webdeveloper.com)

The Applet Depot

(www.ericharshbarger.com/java/)

DuckWare - Multimedia Java

Applets and Applications

(www.duckware.com)

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Miscellaneous

Site search engines

 Beseen (www.beseen.com)

 My Computer (www.mycomputer.com)

 WhatUSeek (intra.whatUseek.com)

Discussion Boards

 Beseen (www.beseen.com)

Free polls

 FreePolls.com (www.freepolls.com)

Guest books

 guestworld.com (www.guestworld.com)

Counters

 My Computer (www.mycomputer.com)

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Domains: Going, going...

Advantages

Easy to remember (i.e., mysite.com)

Shows “serious” site

Ranked higher by search engines

Names

“.com” - for-profit company

“.org” - non-profit organization

“.net” - network

Single name domains are nearly all

taken. Select a short two word name

or abbreviation

Lookup: www.qwho.com

Registration: discountdomainregistry.com

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Web Hosting - where your

pages live

 Domain Hosts - $0 - $300/month

 Domain Forwarding $0 - $50/year

 www.namesecure.com

 www.discountdomainregistry.com

 Free Servers (banner ads or popups):

 www.freewebspace.net (lists of hosts)

 www.freesitex.com/domain.html (list)

 www.freeservers.com (domain with

banner)

 www.portland.co.uk (no ads, restricted

number of transfers/month - small site,

low traffic only)

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Publicize Your Site

Search Engines - Must

submit your site

Webrings - Link to

similar sites

Banner Exchange -

Display a banner and

others display yours

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Search Engines -

Tips to get listed high

Text content is everything

 Use a relevant, descriptive title

 First sentence should summarize your page

(many search engines use the first line as the

page descriptor)

 Meta tags are essential on every page

 Your Title Here





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Search Engines -

Submit your site

 Northern Light (www.nlsearch.com)

 AltaVista (www.altavista.com)

 Snap (www.snap.com)

 HotBot (www.hotbot.com)

 Microsoft (www.msn.com)

 GO Network (www.go.com)

 Google (www.google.com)

 Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

 Excite (www.excite.com)

 Lycos (www.lycos.com)

 Euroseek (www.euroseek.net)

 Christian Submit! (www.christiansubmitit.com)

 CrossDaily's SubmitAll (submitall.crossdaily.com)

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Webrings

Bible webring

(http://nav.webring.org/hub?ring=bible)



Evangelical Christian Webring

(http://nav.webring.org/hub?ring=evangelical)



Ring of Great Commission

Christians

(http://nav.webring.org/hub?ring=greatcom)



Apologetics? - start your own!



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Banner Exchange

Christian Banner Exchange

(www.cbx2.net)

CGX2000 Banner Exchange

(cgx2000.com)

Christian Banner Network

(www.chrbanner.com)

Christian Banner Exchange

Network

(www.cben1.net)

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Summary

Select a topic that you are familiar

with

Gather the tools you need to do the

job

Gather apologetics information from

books and the Internet

Sign up for a domain name and/or

website host

Create your pages

Submit your site to search engines

Prayerfully answer e-mails directed

to your site

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Conclusion

Anybody can make a

Christian apologetics

website - even YOU!





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