I’ve posted a guide to embedding slideshows on your church website over at freechurchwebsite.wordpress.com. I’ll try to put up a workaround guide to using Picasa soon, since wordpress.com doesn’t officially support it currently.
Hopefully that answers the first part of Steve’s questions. 
I’m currently working on a website for a small church in Delaware using a Wordpress blog as the underlying platform.
In keeping with the MissionDisk philosophy, My goal is to build a $0 website, using all freeware, free plugins, and free services online.
Once I’m done I hope to write up an easy-to-follow guide on how to do this so others can do likewise. So many churches don’t have any kind of web presence at all. That’s a shame.
I’d appreciate any input on what I’ve got so far… http://www.calvarybaptistinclayton.org/
The months have flown by and Jamie is once again home from parts unknown.
Welcome back!! Glad to see you made it safe and sound.
To keep up with the latest upgrades to the programs on the Mission Disk we’re releasing Version 1.1 of the project with the following updated software versions:
- 7zip 4.57
- Firefox 3.0
- Gimp 2.4.6
- InfraRecorder 0.45
- Open Office 2.4.1
- Paint.NET 3.31
- PDFCreator 0.9.5
- Scribus 1.3.3.12
- SumatraPDF 0.8.1
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
- VLC 0.8.6h
We’re particularly excited about the release of Firefox 3 — an even faster and more secure web browsing solution.
Jamie’s job has taken him to parts unknown for the next six months working as a military contractor for the Air Force. We wish him all the best and he will be sorely missed on this project.
In the meantime, please direct any inquiries or suggestions to me either through this blog or write to darrellcdow@gmail.com
Darrell (with a lot of help from Jamie) has put together an installer package for the Mission Disk project so that folks can avoid having the burn the project to CD before using it.
Hopefully this will help people who just want a quick peek at the project to be able to look at more easily. You’ll also notice that the link to “Download the CD” is now called “Download the Mission Disk” in honor of this change.
Enjoy!
We’ve removed the Online Software Links page and replaced it with a Resources page filled with a lot more content.
Here you can get links to software that we may not include on the CD but is worth checking out anyway. You can also find links to free fonts, clipart, online manuals for software and a whole lot more.
If anyone has suggestions for content on this page please drop us a line!
To start off with we’d like to say that we’re aware that the PDF Creator does not work on Windows Vista. It’s a known issue that the authors are trying their best to overcome. We’re hoping to hear good things from that project shortly.
There’s also a new version out of Paint.Net that we’ll include in our next release. Progress marches on.
Some good news from our initial release is that there’s been great feedback from a couple of forums that will lead to ongoing improvements in the project. You can read and contribute to the ongoing conversations Here and Here. If anyone has ideas for other forums, blogs, or elsewhere (anywhere, really!) that we could spread the word, feel free to let us know.
Things have been a little slow lately. Darrell has just completed a move to Georgia and Jamie is right in the middle of transitioning to a new job. So there hasn’t been a huge amount of progress in the past few weeks. But that being said, we have managed to get some work done.
Yesterday Darrell set up a new survey that should allow us to get some feedback on the most recent version of the CD as well as give us some direction on what people might need in the future. So if you haven’t yet checked it out, please download the CD and then tell us what you think in the survey.
In other news, Amick Cutler, of Elohim Clothing, created an amazing new banner for the website. As soon as we have a little time Jamie will be redesigning the site to use the new banner and a complimentary color scheme. Meanwhile, you can take a look at the banner by clicking the thumbnail image below.
Here’s what’s going on: Darrell is in the process of moving to Columbus, GA and Jamie has been fighting a flu bug for the past week. Suffice it to say, not a whole lot was done on the project recently.
Nevertheless, we’re going to start gearing back up again this week and lay out the next steps to take going forward.
We are looking for some victi…er…testers. We would love for more people to download the project, and give us some feedback. If for some reason you can’t get the download, let us know and we’ll see if we can work out another way to get the software to you.
Before we run madly off in all directions we’d like to make sure that there’s some method to our madness.