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Below is a list of many free software resources that are available to you.  If you have also found software that is useful and you want to share it please leave a comment to this post.

PraiseBase©
Worship team database has all the functions from SongBuilder (below) plus a database to track team members, worship sets and schedules.

SongBuilder©
(formerly CLOG Chord, Lyric, Overhead Generator).  New version can also do key transpositions for chord charts and choose inline chords or chords on top.

Anvil Studio
Anvil Studio™ is a free Windows program designed for people who want to:

• record music with MIDI and Audio equipment,
• compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment,
• Sequence music with MIDI equipment, or
• play with music using a computer and sound card.

Finale Notepad
You can create great looking sheet music with this free application.

Ghostscript
A freeware program for creating PDF files.

VanBasco MIDI Player
vanBasco’s Karaoke Player plays MIDI Karaoke files. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments.

Adobe PDF viewer
This is the software need to view many of the sheet music files on this site.

Finale viewer
This program is needed to view .MUS (which are a combination of Sheet Music and Midi)  files created by users of Finale software.

UltraPlayer
UltraPlayer is a free MP3 player supporting MP3, WAV, CD Audio and Internet radio streams. Loads of features including a sleep timer.

Winamp
Very popular, versatile MP3 file player. If you use it longer than 14 days, you’re required to pay $10 to continue to use it for noncommercial use or $25 for commercial use.

Free Praise And Worship – Worship Leader Resource
Praise And Worship, chords, lyrics, mp3, realaudio, sheet music. Over 700 songs from independent christian songwriters. A great resource for worship leaders

Worship Assistant
Software tool for planning your worship services and presenting song lyrics using a video projector.

Online Transposer
Web based tool automatically transpose song chords to a new key

Free Bible Software
Free 31 volume Bible Software CD that this nonprofit ministry gives away. Commentaries, Bibles, and more.

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In addition to this website I have a couple of others as well.  From time to time I go in and tweak the site to make them better.  One site I’ve been working on is http://www.accordionboot.com It is what you would call is single product e-commerce site.  This item is used in many application primarily in vehicles.  It is used as a gasket in truck campers and also use in a blow-through audio port for car audio speakers.

Recently I expanded the site to include new pages.  The goal for creating these pages was to develop new content that would help in my SEO for the site.   To accomplish this I added a resource page.  On the resource page I added several page that relate directly to the accordion boot product.  I included these pages:

• Glossary of terms
  The idea behind this was to create a list of keywords that are related to this product.  Then provide definitions of these words.  The hope is to create a keyword rich content.  In turn, I hope that it will attract the search engine spiders and index this page.
• White Paper
  The purpose of a White Paper is to provide a document that will provide information regarding the product.  The format contains 5 sections:
  • Abstract
  • State the Problem
  • Describe the Product
  • Tell how the product solves the problem
  • Conclusion

  Again the purpose of this document is to provide my client with additional information that will allow them to make an informed decision when they decide to purchase the product.

• Technical Data for the rubber material
  I added this page to provide proof and evidence of the technical performance of the material used in the product. With this I hope to gain trust with the client.  Although this data is technical, it will appeal to a certain segment of my audience that wants this type of detailed information.
• Online calculator
  This page came about as a result of one of my customers ordering the wrong amount of accordion boot material.  As a convenience to my customer I included an online calculator that will help them determine the amount of material they will need for their project.  As the boot is designed to fill a gap between two openings, all a person has to do is make a few measurement, then enter the numbers into the appropriate form.  The calculator will them use the proper formula to determine how many feet are required.  The form uses javascript to perform the math functions
• Installation Guide
  Although the material is very simple to install, one issue that popped up was how to properly boot the two end together.  This page has a visual representation of how to do that.  I create an illustration in Photoshop to help the customer visualize the solution.

Now that I’ve added these resources to my website, I can now monitor any improvements in incoming traffic.

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