Greetings,
This week we want to give you some updates on the activities of the web team and recent developments on the web site.
Over the last few weeks, the web team has been working on the search engine effectiveness of the website. To this end, when someone goes to a posted video they will see a paragraph and keyword section to the message title webpage. This improves search capability but also provides the viewer with an idea of what the message contains.
Also, in conjunction with this, many read books on their tablets and some expressed they would like to be able to easily read TFC transcripts there as well. Now you can. The web team will be adding two new formats, ePUB and MOBI, to the download section for each message.
Each gives readers the ability to do the following on their respective e-reader devices (Kindle, iPad etc.) or computers:
- Search
- Change font size
- Take notes
- Highlight or underline words or sentences
- Dictionary word definitions (if a Dictionary app is also on the device).
If you’d like to use either one, the web team suggests the following apps:
ePub
- On Macs and Apple mobile devices, no added software needed
- Google Play Books – Android
- ePub for Android – Android
- ePub Reader – Android
MOBI
- On Kindles, no added software needed
- Kindle Reader – Apple (Windows and Android untested by the web team)
Both
- FBReader – Android (Windows untested by the web team, iPhone, iPad version due very soon)
The ePub and MOBI formats are available now for the following sermon: Are Acts of Violence God’s Judgement? by Brian Orchard on Jul 02, 2016.
As time permits, ePUB and MOBI will be added to other past messages as well.
Feast of Tabernacles
We are planning to have the Feast activity information ready for posting next week. The web team will prepare the pages on the site so registration for activities can proceed. Here is a summary of activities:
Oxnard
Weekly Sabbath Oct 15 – dinner
Sunday 16 – reception following opening service
Tuesday 18 – family picnic
Wednesday 19 – golf
Thursday 20 – dinner/dance
Monday 24 – luncheon
Granbury
Tuesday 18 – family picnic
Thursday 20 – musical evening
Monday 24 – luncheon
That’s it for this week.
Brian Orchard