St. Paul's United
Methodist Church
714 Herbertsville Road, Brick, NJ 08724
Tel: (732) 458-2080  Fax: (732) 458-2302
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Below are free software programs that are used in developing and administering St. Paul's website.  They are listed here to provide a resource for other church webmasters.

Web Page Development Software
1st Page 2000 A professional editor for coding HTML with many useful features such as Color Code Highlighting, Tag Wizards, Spell Checker, Sample Scripts, HTML Tidy, and much more.

Top Style Lite A Cascade Style Sheet Editor that is very helpful for building and checking CSS code.

EnginSite Perl Editor Lite An Programming Development Studio mainly for editing Perl code, it is also helps with PHP and HTML.

CutePDF Free Adobe PDF Printer Software.

Filezilla An Explorer style FTP program for uploading and managing files of a website.

Web and Podcast Validation Services
Markup Validation Service Web Site to submit the URL or to upload web page files to validate web site code.

Smoothouse Podcast Tools Web Site that provides icon buttons, feed validatation, and other tools for podcasting.

Feed Validator
for Atom & RSS
Web Site for testing the validity of XML code a podcast feed file. Errors are identified for easy debugging.


Web Server Applications
WebCalendar An open source PHP Calendar program that works with MySQL and other databases.

MagpieRSS An open source PHP coded RSS/XML parser for displaying news feeds from other websites.

phpSitemapNG An open source PHP program to create a sitemap that can be submitted to Google to help search engine placement.


Audio Recording And MP3 Generation
Audiograbber A freeware Windows based CD Ripper program.  It is very useful for making adjustments to track start and stop times.  By adding the Lame MP3 .dll file into its directory and it will rip to MP3.

Lame MP3 Encoder A powerful open source MP3 encoder that is run from a command line.

RazorLame An open source Windows application that is a front-end for the command line Lame encoder. Loading the "modem" options file produces a decent quality downloadable file for sermons over a dial-up internet connection.

Goldwave An excellent audio studio software for recording and editing sound on a PC. It can be used for amplification, compression, equalization, effects, noise reduction, etc.  It comes as a fully functional evaluation version which will eventually frequently produce annoying pop-ups if you don't pay for a license.  Put the Lame dll in its directory to save to MP3.

Audacity An open source audio studio software that offers all the essential features found in Goldwave and Cool Edit Pro.

Winamp Media Player A popular media player alternative to Windows Media Player.  The player version is free.

MP3-Library

A useful program for managing MP3 files, particularly for copying and editing ID3 tags from one file to another and for renaming multiple files.  It also can repair some problems MP3 file errors.


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