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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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