Audio File for 2nd Feb. 2007 g km Presentation

The Mandarin audio file for the presentation for the Feb. 2007 g from the Feb. 2007 km has been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page.

New km Magazine Presentations Page File, Format

The Mandarin audio file for the km presentation for the Feb. 15, 2007 w has been posted to the km Magazine Presentation Audio Files page.

Note also that the page’s format has been updated to make it easier to find a past presentation, which may be adapted and reused for presenting something else. As it now says on that page:

The presentation files linked to below are listed in chronological order based on the magazine issue they were originally for. However, note that the presentations have a basic structure of:

1. Discussion on a theme


2. Reading of a scripture


3. Offer of a magazine

So, it is relatively easy to adapt them for offering other literature as well by just changing the last element to whatever you want to offer, such as a brochure, a book, or a different magazine. To make it easier to find and reuse the presentations that have a particular theme or that use a certain scripture, an index is provided at the end of this page. Also, links in the Index Items column may be used to go to the indicated item in the index to see what other presentations there are with the same theme or scripture.

Since it is now much easier to find, adapt, and reuse them, I plan to eventually repost all the presentation files that are older than those currently on the page. I plan to continue to create and post new presentation files as well, as time allows. Since my time has been limited lately, though, I will be focusing first on Mandarin files, since that seems to be the more active field currently. However, I also plan to continue to produce Cantonese files when I can, since that is still a big field. In fact, the idea for this page and its audio files first came from an email exchange I had with a brother in the Cantonese field.

Isa. 52-66 Audio Files

The audio files for Isa. 52-66 have been posted to the NWT Audio Files page.

Isa. 34-51 Audio Files

The audio files for Isa. 34-51 have been posted to the NWT Audio Files page.

The Look for the Rest

I decided to go ahead and update the look of the rest of my Links web pages while the technique was fresh in my mind. Besides hopefully being nicer-looking, they should be easier to read and better to use now too - form is often function, especially when it comes to the presentation of information.

Interestingly, since the Links web pages attached to recent Links emails get their style information from a central CSS file on the web like my other web pages do, they will generally get an updated look too when the computers they are on are connected to the Internet. So, if that Links email you received months ago suddenly looks different, don't panic. :-)

Since I am now boning up on modern web design for a current project, other design tweaks may also filter through to my web pages in the days ahead as I climb this particular learning curve.

The Look

As you can see, I have taken advantage of the new Blogger site's customization options to tweak the look of this blog to better match the look of my other web pages, while keeping some of the more modern web design features of the template I used.

Some of the highlights of the resulting design:

• The top of the page is no longer cut off in MS Internet Explorer.


• The title now has a more "solid" look.


• The more modern centred, fixed-width design was kept.


• The Blog Archive links are now arranged hierarchically, and can be revealed or concealed by clicking on the disclosure triangles, or "twisties".


• The font used for the body text has been changed to match the font used on my other web pages.


• I kept the dark grey colour of the body text, as it is a bit easier on the eyes than maximum contrast black-on-white.


• I increased the font size to that used on my other pages, as I know that many on my mailing list are not as young as they used to be. Interestingly, using bigger text for better readability seems to be part of the current Web 2.0 web design trend.

I hope you enjoy the new look of this blog. Perhaps I will migrate some of the design features to my other web pages in the future as time allows. Of course, though, content will still be king. I have been very busy with other things lately, but hopefully I will have more time soon to devote to that. I will especially try to beef up the amount of audio content available, as I have gotten requests from different ones about that lately.

Labels

I've just discovered what this site calls labels, which act like keywords. Clicking on one of them will call up a page with all the posts that have that label. E.g., clicking on an audio label will call up all the posts with the audio label, which would be handy if one is looking for audio content.

I have gone back and added labels to all the posts on this blog so far, and I will add appropriate labels to future posts as well.

Update: “Labels” have been renamed “tags” on this blog. See this post for more details.