apr 15.08

Google Translates Spirit of the Hills

Now you can view this web site in different languages.

Spirit Email

I recently set up an account for Spirit of the Hills at Google's online mail service at Gmail.com. This move was necessitated by the large volume of junk mail flowing into some of our email addresses. Gmail is more than capable of handling these annoyances and as a bonus, Google has now made Gmail seemless with other account names.

Currently only dedicated spiritofthehills.org email addresses have been migrated over to the new system, but there is no reason why all members of Spirit of the Hills cannot have dedicated Spirit of the Hills email addresses if they want them. Access to the spiritofthehills email accounts is done on the web through our front page. Look to the bottom of any main page under links where you will see my.spiritofthehills.org. That is the address for our Google/Spirit of the Hills customized start page. Click on the link now and have a look around. You can customize the page to your liking and even use it as your web browser's home page if you want.

If you want a yourname@spiritofthehills.org email address or you would like to use the spirit of the Hills Start Page, just let me know and I will set it up for you. Of course, you have to be a paid member Spirit of the Hills to participate.

Printable Pages

Many of the pages are now more print friendly. Spirit Events and Member News as well as Arts Spotlight, Webmaster Report and all of the artist portfolio pages are now set up to ignore certain web specific elements such as the navigation bars and the big round balls that indicate what page you are on. Other pages such as the Home page and the Search page will continue to print all screen elements.

New Search Facility by Google

Our search facility, previously handled by atomz.com has been replaced by Google's new custom search facility. Few would argue that Google does searches as well as anyone. The new search is a simple Google gadget that can be added to any web page. If you would like to add a similar gadget to your own web page go to Google's custom search engine page to find out how. They really have made it very simple to do.

How to Promote This Web Site

Promote this site by adding Spirit of the Hills's web address to your e-mail correspondence. Usually this is done by creating a signature in your e-mail program. All you have to do is add http://www.spiritofthehills.org underneath your signature. If you prefer you can add your own Spirit web page instead of the front page or put both of them as I have done here.

regards,
John Charlton, webmaster
http://www.spiritofthehills.org
http://spiritofthehills.org/artists/johncharlton.html

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