Today I spent the morning with the Southern Ohio district ministerium.
We were discussing the BMH webpages (fgbcworld.com and bmhbooks.com) and one of them made an excellent suggestion.
“Show us how to make the Blog our home page,” he suggested, indicating that one is much more likely to read it regularly if it pops up when you turn the computer on, rather than having to go hunt for it or click on “favorites.”
So…here are the instructions.
Open your browser
Click “Tools”
Go down and click “Internet Options”
Click the “General” tab, and you should see a sentence something like this: “You can change which page to use for your home page.”
It will likely say “Address” followed by a box. Use your mouse to highlight the current homepage setting, hit “delete” to wipe it out, and type into the box
http://www.fgbc-world.blogspot.com/
Click “OK” at the bottom and you’re all set. Next time you open the browser, voila! Editor’s Blog will be your home page.
Let me know if it works, or if you have problems.
Except…
I would rather they make www.fgbc.org their home page!
And I’m sure every other NatOrg would say the same thing.
Perhaps this would be a good item for further discussion. I have long thought we need to design a joint home/portal page with “windows” to each of our pages that we can control. Perhaps one of the biggest contributors to our lack of impact on the web is the proliferation of web pages with little to connect them. Yahoo and Google have made a great business out of tying the web together. Perhaps we need something like that.
Tom
PS: You can also make a web page your home page, by loading that page, and drag the icon at the beginning of the url over your home page icon at the top of the browser.