Besides being now redirected to an apostate site by a former fellow worker who has turned against us, I have gotten feedback that www.chinesetools.net (which was named by that former fellow worker) was kind of, well, long and unwieldy to remember, and to type or write out manually. And while it has the virtues of being available to me and of not leading to an apostate site, troubadourworks.com/tiandi is, if anything, even more long and unwieldy.
So, taking advantage of another site that is available to me, and that has the added virtue of having a short name that is fitting for the Chinese field, I have come up with a new set of apostasy-free, human-friendly resources: tiandi.info-based short links.
These links are simply composed like this:
tiandi.info/x
The x in the above example can be all kinds of short strings that I may think of or that some of you may suggest, so that the link will point to a certain referral page with a link or set of links.
(The tiandi.info-based short links pages themselves will generally only be referral pages, since the Squarespace service which hosts tiandi.info does not allow FTP access for uploading files. Since troubadourworks.com/tiandi does allow FTP access, making file uploading much more convenient, it will continue to be used to actually host the resources for which I need to upload files.)
Examples
This link will serve as a “base” for exploring the other available tiandi.info-based short links:
tiandi.info/links
It started out as the Links page for tiandi.info, but it has been updated so that it will no longer need a login to access, and so that it will be more suited to its new purpose.
The official code for an official publication is used to compose a short link that leads to a referral page listing resources related to that publication, e.g.:
tiandi.info/jl - Jehovah’s Will Brochure Links
tiandi.info/fg - Good News Brochure Links
tiandi.info/lv - “God’s Love” Book Links
etc.
Here are some other examples of short links that will be available:
tiandi.info/pubs - Publications
tiandi.info/brochures - Brochures
tiandi.info/rte - Referenced Theocratic Expressions (RTE) Links
tiandi.info/pdf - PDF Format Features
tiandi.info/mobile - Mobile Devices
tiandi.info/courses - Courses
etc.
On applicable short link pages, there is a path indicator on the top of the page, like a trail of “bread crumbs” showing where one is in the hierarchy of the short link pages. E.g., this is on the top of the tiandi.info/fg (Good News Brochure Links) page:
Links ▶ Publications ▶ Brochures ▶
Each of the items in the path is a live link that will take one to the indicated short link page.
As time goes on, and as we leave www.chinesetools.net behind us, we will be rebuilding and enhancing previous resources, and we will also go on to build brand new resources. So, as time goes on, more short links will be created, and existing short link referral pages will get populated with more and more links to goodies for faithful ones who are working hard in the Chinese field.
Since these new tiandi.info-based short links are so easy to remember and so easy to type or write out, I think many will find that they make it really easy to access and to refer others to the helpful web-based Chinese field resources that many have worked hard, and that many will continue to work hard, to make available.
