Blogs

• ASBO Jesus A very funny cartoon blog.
• Brian McLaren An author, speaker and pastor. No relation to Steve. That I know of.
• Down The Rabbit Hole A blog by Adam Duritz where he swears a lot and generally talks about music and things he likes.
• Emergent Village A node in the web of the emerging church.
• G:Site George’s Blog
• Jez Wainaina A friend of mine.
• Jonny Baker Works for CMS - talks about church a lot. In a good way.
• Matt Mullenweg The creator of Wordpress
• Mike North A friend from York… presenter/producer of trax16
• Rachel Boyd Sorry - this is a work one - Rachel Boyd is a primary school teacher in NZ. She blogs…
• Shadowfeet Brian Gardner’s Blog
• Son Spring - Blog The blog of the web design people mentioned elsewhere.
• T Barrett an edublog I read.
• The Hunters My boss has started blogging.
• The Resurgence Blog The blog from the guys of Resurgence
• Trax16 From CMS a podcast aimes at young Christians.

Church

• Biblegateway Online searchable bible. Very handy!
• Church on the move A church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Like most of the churches I link to - I don’t know much about the church but it has a nice website!
• Dulles Church Another American church I don’t know much about. Again - great website!
• Edmond First Baptist Church This is Edmond’s first baptist church. I don’t know if the second baptist church is better. Yet again another American church with a decent website. But the home pages goes down too far.
• Mars Hill Church The church that Rob Bell comes from.
• Mountain Top Church This church must meet at the top of a mountain.
• The Crowded House A group of church planting networks in Sheffield and Loughborough.
• The Resurgence movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the gospel by staying culturally accessible and biblically faithful.
• York Minster I love York Minster. I don’t often go there (mainly cos I live in Sheffield) but I love the building and space.

DIY

• Build a BBQ This is a page that tells you how to build a BBQ. Useful if you want to build a BBQ.
• California Redwood Association Ever wanted to know what type of nails you should use for redwood siding?

Fun

• ASBO Jesus A very funny cartoon blog.
• Funny Exam Answers Funnily enough this is a page with funny exam answers.
• Helicopter Game A game Laura told me about. Now I’m hooked.
• House Prices Find out how much houses on your street cost! I know it’s a bit sad but I love it. Type in Addison Road in London. I used to live there.
• Shift A puzzle game that I’m not very good at but is fun.
• Used to Believe Funny…
• Violent Veg The home of violent veg! Genius.

Images, Graphics and Art

• Michael Claxton An artist based in Sheffield. We bought some art from him. Come round and see it.
• Sozo Design A nice design company. I got an email from someone from Sozo asking how I did something on a website. I was pleased.
• Stock Exchange Royalty free images that I like to try and use a lot.

Music

• Counting Crows A very good band… I like them a lot.
• Five Small Ponnies They’re back! Five Small Ponies are on their way back with a new album in the pipeline. Watch this space. It’s going to be special.
• Green Street Three Jonny’s band - they’re rather good.
• Mat Tanner The One Mat Band - he’s good too.
• Play It Free A huge bank of free MP3s

Podcasts

• Geeks and God a podcast that educates and encourages technology in Christian ministries
• Mars Hill Podcast The church that Rob Bell comes from. Brilliant podcast.
• The Crowded House - Podcast The podcast from the church. I’ve been listening quite a bit lately.
• Trax 16 a monthly podcast created by CMS for young people. It’s a missional thing.
• Trax16 From CMS a podcast aimes at young Christians.

Schools

• Palterton Primary School The school where I work. Uses Primary Sites to supply the CMS. My class update it quite a bit but I didn’t have anything to do with the site itself.

Shopping

• 5 A Day NHS Helpful advice on what makes up your 5-a-day. How old am I?!
• Eco Outlet A website that sells things that are not bad for the environment. Honestly I’ve never bought anything from it but maybe I will.
• Eden Online Bookshop An online bookshop. It claims to be the largest Christian bookshop in Europe. Usually not as cheap as Amazon.
• Ethical Superstore Maybe I’ll use this one day.
• Fairdeal Trading They do loads of fairtrade stuff - converse style shoes, footballs and even team kits… in case you need one.
• Low Cost Living Cost effectiveness, saving money, reducing expenditure in the home and at play.
• Money Saving Expert Visit this site for FREE money saving tips. Genius.
• My Shop Remember this? That’s right. You too can own a hoyland.me.uk lanyard.

Sites I Made

• Chasing God A site I made for Chasing God, a youth event that runs down at St John’s. It’s called Reality now. I haven’t made a site for that. But I might.
• Pete Smith Pete is a photographer. He’s good at it. I made his site.
• Prosperity Radio I did a bit of customisation on this Revolution Magazine site. More to follow I think!
• St John’s Church The church I go to. A site I made. It’s not updated much which is a shame.
• St John’s FC The football team that I play for. It’s made with Wordpress. In fact - it uses the same WP files as the St John’s site but a different theme.

Social networking

• Facebook A social networking site. Basically - if you’re not at school anymore you’re probably on Facebook. If you are - try Bebo.
• Plaxo Pulse Another social networking site. It seems to have more stuff built in than Facebook but it’s pretty similar.
• Twitter My Twitter page. Twitter’s great. It’s a micro social networking thing.

Sport

• Magic Seaweed Not a type of drug… Surf Forecasts and stuff like that to help with my early mid life crisis.
• Sheffield & District Fair Play League I’d like to put a team into this. Let me know if you fancy driving to Sheffield every week just to play.
• Sheffield Wednesday FC I support Sheffield Wednesday. Ha!
• St John’s FC I play 5-a-side for St John’s FC.

Web Guides, Resources and Things

• Brian Gardner Brian made the Winter Wonderland theme that I used over Christmas.
• Browser Shots Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. Pretty nifty.
• Color Combos This is a great site that gives you suggestions of colour combinations.
• Equal Design Web design and things. One of them is the creator of Education Themes.
• Golden Web Awards A website that gives out Golden Web Awards. I don’t know what they look like but the site has just had a makeover and is now using a Revolution theme.
• Google Analytics Google’s Web Stats. I use them for most of my sites now. They are good. Possibly better than statcounter.com but I’m only saying that cos they tell me I have more visitors.
• Online Button Maker It lets you make little buttons like the three that appear at the bottom of my pages.
• Son Spring a small, Christian web studio that specializes in creating sites for churches and non-profits.
• Sozo Design A nice design company. I got an email from someone from Sozo asking how I did something on a website. I was pleased.
• Springdot Hosting The people who host quite a bit of my website.
• Statcounter A very good web stats site. Giving you options for free stats (lots of detail but only registering latest 500) or paid (unlimited!).
• Wisdom Software Makers of some very good screen capture software.

Webhosting

• Godsweb Hosting company I have just started using for firwoodchurch.com. Unlimited webspace, decent price for bandwidth. VERY good customer service.
• Solid Rock Hosting company - I use the for stjb.org.uk
• Springdot Hosting The people who host quite a bit of my website.

Wordpress

• Education Themes A website I wish I had got to first! Wordpress themes for education websites.
• iThemes A rather predictable name but a very good collection of Wordpress themes
• OmniTheme More very nice Premium Wordpress themes.
• Premium News Themes They offer Wordpress themes. I really like LiveWire2.0
• Revolution Brian Gardner’s fantastic Revolution series.
• Theme Viewer Free Wordpress themes
• Wordpress Very nice blogging software - easily extended for more CMS.

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