VOTD has been mostly spreading by word of mouth (or eye of email??) since the beginning, but here are four FIVE NEW ways to promote and enjoy VOTD: RSS/Atom Feeds Web site links/banners Adding VOTD to your own web site MS Windoze Active Desktop NEW - Add to Google Homepage or Reader! click this: 1) Syndicating VOTD via RSS or Atom If you don't know what these things are, and aren't adventurous enough to google it then just skip this section and be content with the remaining three new ways to promote and enjoy VOTD! For everyone else - the link for your news reader or aggregator is: http://votd.org/feed 2) Promote VOTD on your web site If you manage a web site or web blog you can include the url (and even write a little sumptin' 'bout us) or if you want to get fancy you can use the following icons: (http://votd.org/images/60x40.gif) (http://votd.org/images/votdicon.gif) (http://votd.org/images/votdlogomini.gif) (http://votd.org/images/bloglogo.gif) Our web address of course is "http://votd.org" Here's an example: <a href="http://votd.org" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: Black;" target=gnuwin><img src="http://votd.org/images/votdicon.gif" width="85" height="35" alt="" border="0"><br> Sharing God's Word daily <br>via email since 1993!</a> Which produces: Sharing God's Word daily via email since 1993! You can certainly copy the HTML code above and use it as-is in your web page. 3) Adding VOTD to your web site VOTD can automatically be displayed on your web site via JavaScript. VOTD will require an area of approximately 250 pixels wide by 140 pixels high, if the text of the verse exceeds this space it will be truncated and the reader can click the "more" link to view it in it's entirety. This helps you to keep your site uniform in appearance. Add the following block of code to your web site: <!-- Start VOTD --> <table width="250" border="0"><tr> <td style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;"> <script src="http://votd.org/votd_rss_serve.php"></script> </td></tr></table> <!-- End VOTD --> ...and you'll see: The font size is preset to 9 pixels (font-size: 9px) but you may change it if you'd like. Generally anything below 8 pixels is unreadable and of course you may not like the look - or want to dedicate the space for large font sizes. You may also use the table width attribute (width="245") to change the pixel width of the verse, and the border attribute (border="0") to specify a box around the verse (the higher the number the thicker the box) If you are familiar with CSS you can make a few other adjustments which I won't elaborate on... Keep in mind that VOTD is usually updated before 11:30 am EST every weekday (that is, Monday through Friday) except for major holidays, so there may be times when the verse does not appear to change for a few days. I advise you to subscribe to the email or check the blog frequently to stay abreast of any late breaking news in the event of a real outage or issue. 4) Adding VOTD to Your Computer's "Active Desktop" If you use MS Windows 95 or later (sorry all you cool Mac and Linux folks!) and use the "Active Desktop" feature you can have VOTD automatically display on your desktop! Thanks to VOTD member Andrew Saxsma who provided the following instructions. Paste the code [the block of code above] in MS Notepad and save with a ".htm" suffix. Add the file to the active desktop by right clicking on the desktop, then select Active Desktop > New Desktop Item. Position the active desktop window as preferred. Lock the desktop by right clicking on the desktop and selecting Active Desktop > Lock Desktop Items. Blessings!! Thanks as always for supporting this ministry!