Table of Contents
I. Why I Made This Site
II. How I Made This Site
III. Copyright
IV. Privacy Statement
V. Known Bugs
VI. Ideas
VII. Updates (moved... see blog/Updates/)
Why I Made This Site
I made this website for two basic reasons.
1) I wanted to make a website in which I could talk about myself for no real reason and
2) I wanted to have a useful site that contains information that is helpful to both
saved and unsaved people.
How I Made This Site
I made this site mainly with a program called HTML-Kit. This program just works with the raw HTML and colorizes the text.
What is nice about this program is it allows me to format my own HTML and it never
changes anything! (which FrontPage is notorious for). It also allows me to preview pages
and colors HTML, CSS, PHP, and Perl among other languages.
They way I designed my site is I use a large table with three colums (my sidebar, border,
and the content). I used PHP require statements (or equivalent perl code for some pages) to
add a file to give me a uniform sidebar. I also use CSS technology to give my pages a uniform
look with the ability to easily change colors, fonts, etc. I also use PHP code to allow for
the custom border and colors.
My weblog (blog) was made using Blosxom. It is free
to use and modify and has almost no restrictions. I haven't modofied the original code at all
(written in Perl-CGI), I only use plug-ins to change the look. I use a modified verson of
writeback, wbnotify, and directorybrowse. I also wrote my own plugin to show my sidebar,
include my random verse, and to allow me to format my date the way it is.
My search engine is the Fluid Dynamics
Search Engine. It is free to use as long as the copywrite is shown at the bottom and you
have to follow a few other restrictions. It is very easy to use and customizable as it is
Perl-CGI. I edited the actual code of this a little bit and it has built in support for
including my sidebar.
Copyright
My site is copyrighted under my name on most every page. (Copyright ©
2006 James Hanenkamp. All Rights Reserved.) I did this by advice of my brother so
that 1) I can show I care about all the material contained therein and 2) it
helps prevent people from copying information from my site without permission.
The copyright is for the United States and other countries that have accept it and
the All Rights Reserved is for the rest that do not accept it. I allow you to use
any portion of my site for a lesson, sermon, personal use, etc. If you would like
to distribute it in any form, please e-mail me for permission.
Most likly I will give you permission.
Privacy Statement
It is possible to give submit information on some of my web pages. All
information submitted is private except that which is supposed to be shown
(guestbook entries, prayer requests, blog replies). E-mail addresses, e-mails, and
private messages are hidden and only viewable by me. I promist I will never sell
nor distribute any information you submit (except that which is supposed to as
mentioned above). Information submitted in the customize page is stored in cookies
on your computer. I only use this information to put in in text boxes for easy
retrival. I also use cookies to store information used by my counter on my welcome
page. The only formation I see of these cookies is the page that referred you to
my welcome page (if you send e-mail, prayer request, sign guestbook), and an id
number which is useless except for showing that you visited my site before (for
my counter). Also, cookies can be stored from my tictactoe page (statistics are
stored). I will never see this infomation.
Known Bugs
If you find any unmentioned bugs (errors), please e-mail me with as much information as you can about it (what that bug is,
what page, and what browser you are using).
| Short Pages with IE 6.0 |
| I know if my pages are smaller than the height of the screen with
IE 6.0 that the side border does not go all the way down. I am not sure how to
fix this yet. Since it isn't a big deal, I will just ignore it for now unless
someone knows how to fix it. |
| Tic-Tac-Toe Program |
| I know the cookies in my Tic-Tac-Toe
program no longer work correctly. It is supposed to save your score in a cookie
and save it to your name, and if you change your name, it should change your
score. Well, it hasn't worked correctly since I modified it to work on my
website. It will probably be a while before I attempt to fix this. |
Ideas
If you have any ideas that you think would make my web site more useful or
cool, please e-mail me or sign my guestbook with your idea. If you have something you wish me to add
to my site, you can give me the source and I will think about adding it.
The headers are colored according to if the idea is Completed (Green), In Progress (Yellow), or
just an Idea (Red).
| Add useful resources |
| I have for a while wanted to add some resources that others could
find useful. First, I would like to add games, song, and other useful things that
I learned while traveling NBT and BYM. It is also possible that I could add bus
ministry resources but that would take some time. |
| Hidden e-mail addresses |
| I would like to change my guestbook so that instead of showing the
e-mail address of those who sign it, it gives a link that will allow the viewer
to e-mail the signer of the guestbook without ever seeing the e-mail address.
This would eliminate e-mail crawlers from finding out their e-mail addresses. |
| Christian Content |
| I would like to add more information about me as a Christian and
also some useful resources for Christians and to the unsaved as well. I am not
exactly sure what I would like to add but I know I need to do something. I will
probably add a section for people curious on how to become a Christian to become
saved step by step and also information about why they should be and about some
common problems in what many people believe and such. |
| Add to Guestbook & Prayer Request |
| I would like to add more features to the guestbook and prayer request like
the ability to add more information and to entries and to make the non-required
entries only viewable to me (so if they did not want to post their E-mail address
for everyone to see). |
| Prayer Request |
| I am thinking about making a prayer request page that works
similarly to my guestbook except it will include extra features including a
password so that the person may remove it at any time desired, and an expiration
date. (Prayer Request Page) |
| Add my own weblog |
| When I saw my brothers weblog (blog) I decided I wanted one too
they are nice and easy to maintain. It took a lot of time to implement but I am
pleased with it. I would still like to add many more features. |
| Add my own search engine |
| This was a goal of mine for a long time but I didn't think I would
be able to make one. It was actually easier than I thought once I found the Fluid
Dynamics search engine. It isn't all that useful but it sure is cool. |
| Add useful bus ministry information |
| I would like to add a list of bus songs with midi files, a list of
bus games, and whatever else I found to be really useful for me in the bus
ministry. This would take a considerable amount of time to make so I won't make
it in the near future. |
Updates
I permanently moved my updates page over to my blog. You can view them here.
This page was last updated February 6th, 2006.
Copyright © 2006 James Hanenkamp. All Rights Reserved.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
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