Below is a highlight of some interesting places people came from.

• Over 30,000 page views originated from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
• School finding sites such as schoolfinder.com, gradschoolfinder.com, canadian-universities.net, campusstarter.com, careercruising.com, studyincanada.com, fairs.naccap.org, crosscanadasearch.com, checusout.ca, cccu.org… accounted for about 1,200 pageviews
• Over 400 page views came from Seneca College – most of these would have come from http://www.senecac.on.ca/degreetransfer/guide/tyndale-university-college.html
• 357 page views came from links on Christian Careers Canada – a website run by Tyndale (www.christiancareerscanada.com)
• Almost 300 page views came through facebook
• ATS (ats.edu) brought 261 page views
• Links on denominational websites such as paonl.ca and agcofcanada.com accounted for about 200 page views
• Media sources such as Christian Herald, Christianity.ca, WDCX and Life 100.3 brought in over 300 page views
• 81 page views originated from the Ontario College of Teachers website (www.oct.ca)

First let me say — I have raised all my financial support! This is not a plea for financial help — but rather a plea for your prayers and a chance to answer the many questions I have been getting about my upcoming trip.

We do have a website put together if you would like more details about what we are doing. The site can be found at: www.mymission.ca/zambia

One of the things I am looking forward to the most is meeting 2 of our supported children. As a family we support 3 kids in Africa – 2 of those are in Zambia and 1 lives in the Village of Hope orphanage I am going to work at. The second attends the community school. I hope to meet both of these boys and will be bringing some special gifts for them.

I will be traveling from April 16th to May 3rd – I would deeply cherish your prayers for myself and my family while I am gone.

Overall Web Site Facts

• We had over 36,200 visits
• We had an average of 1170 visits per day with our highest day (20th) having 1600 visits
• We had 640,200 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 127 different countries covering most continents
• The top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) hit our web site to index our pages over 98,000 times
• 3.7% of our traffic came directly from search engines with Google alone accounting for over 13,000 hits

University College Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 2,500 visits
• We had an average of 79.97 visits per day
• We had 9,974 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 71 different countries covering most continents
• 60.91% of the visitors were new visits
• Visitors used 6 different operating systems ranging from Windows and Mac to the iPhone and iPod Touch
• 60 people completed an inquiry form online
• 21 people registered for campus visits online

Seminary Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 1,600 visits
• We had an average of 49.90 visits per day
• We had 5,201 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 59 different countries covering most continents
• 56.17% of the visitors were new visits
• 30 people completed an inquiry form online
• 20 people registered for campus visits online

Compiled November 5, 2008 by Andrew Smith, Admissions and Marketing

Honor Bound Men’s Dinner
Tuesday November 18, 2008 at 6:30pm
Cedarview Community Church, Newmarket

This event is combined with a dinner, tickets are $15
-sorry- Men only [map]

Alliston Christian School
Thursday November 20, 2008 at 7pm

This event is being presented as a free seminar primarily aimed at the parents and children from Alliston Christian School but all are welcome to attend. [map]

also see » www.mymission.ca/danger/

While I am sure his comments were intended to be a joke — they have sparked tension at Queen’s and have been labeled as racial and ethnic discrimination.

On a number of occasions I have had the opportunity to speak to our Tyndale freshmen students regarding Internet safety — helping them understand just how their remarks on a public web site may be damaging to their future. This is a prime example.

Mantle has made public apologies to the Queen’s community and is considering resigning from his position. If he refuses to resign he may face an impeachment process to have him removed.

This simple comment has caused great embarrassment to both him and Queen’s University and has stained the future of this student.

Read the Queen’s Journal Article

To help manage my busy life I use a self-created time management sheet. I have this on my desk at all times and I use it to keep my work life on track. Recently I have decided to intentionally make coffee rings on this sheet each morning – not sure why…

One thing I have discovered in this process is that there is design in anything and everything – even in my coffee rings. Now if my coffee rings were the exact same each day this exercise would have stopped on day three. The rings are all different – they have different designs. The example I posted here (created on October 30, 2008) is a great example of the depth of colour you can achieve. This is determined by how much coffee is on the bottom of your cup, how much the paper absorbs, if there is another piece of paper below it that also absorbs, any drips that may occur… the list goes on.

Web design is also more complex than people may think. The word “design” brings to mind thoughts of how a website may look – possibly what pictures they may want to have posted. Really web design is about so much more.

There is the design of the information architecture, design for usability, design of navigation and don’t forget the content (copy) layout! Should we consider good code design – xhtml, css, PHP, javascript – all working together. Database design… is your database optimized? How about search engine optimization design – do you want the website to be found?

Okay – I could go on here forever – my point is this: a Website design (or redesign) project encompasses so much more than the basic look & feel of the web site. At first glance my coffee ring may look like a simple spill or a mess – trust me  – it is so much more.

Next time you are down near my office drop in and I will show you the coffee ring of the day and we can chat about the beauty of design.

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myTyndale.ca mobile is a simplified version of the main myTyndale.ca web site. We have narrowed it down to bring you only the information you need making it easy to navigate and fast to load.

When you go to www.mytyndale.ca/m you will see urgent alerts along with the last 10 news items and the last 10 classifieds ads.

Alerts will be posted for important and time sensitive announcements like school closures or weather alerts — stuff you need to know!

So stop using your phone as a flashlight to find your keys in the dark and come on over to www.mytyndale.ca/m

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