BMIS 310

Web Tract Instructions

Create a 3–4-webpage evangelistic website tract. You may have had the opportunity to share your faith face-to-face with another person. An evangelism web tract is much the same, but with 2 important differences:

· There is little to no interaction involved. You will have to pre-suppose that the visitor to the site has some interest in the process of salvation. A tract cannot answer every question, but it can, from a theological perspective, make the complex become easily understandable.

· Your evangelism web tract has the potential to reach millions of people, a prospect that most would find difficult to accomplish manually.

Your job is to communicate the human side of salvation as opposed to the divine side; salvation requires human action in as much as one must accept the gift. You do not need to create a tract that explains how God accomplished sanctification and redemption of the human soul, only how a person can become a Christian.

The use of a tried and true method of presentation is highly encouraged. If you like the Roman Road, for example, then by all means feel free to use that method. If you want to keep it extremely simple, you can use the A-B-C method:

· A dmit to yourself and God that you are a sinner. Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God ...."

· B elieve that Jesus suffered, died, and rose from the dead for you. Isaiah 53:5 "He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; by his wounds we are healed"

· C onfess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and Savior of the world! Romans 1:16 "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because salvation comes to everyone that believes ...."

Here are the criteria for your project:

Your web code should be written by hand using a text editor like notepad or TextPad. In later assignments, you may use a WYSIWYG editor, but for this first project the purpose is to get to know the code.

The website must contain XHTML that is syntactically valid (according to the W3C 1.0 standard). You can validate your HTML using the W3C XHTML Validation Service at http://validator.w3.org/ .

The W3C XHTML validation utility relies on the code specifying the document type. If this is not done, it will not be able to validate your code. To resolve this issue, use the "doctype" correctly to make your webpage to be XHTML 1.0 (transitional or strict).

If you author your website in a WYSIWYG editor, it is not necessarily guaranteed to be valid XHTML code. FrontPage is more suspect than Dreamweaver in this regard. If you already have access, and decide to write your code using FrontPage or Dreamweaver, instead of a simple text editor, be prepared to dig into the HTML code to resolve inconsistencies with the XHTML 1.0 standard.

Validate early and validate often. Do not wait until the very end of your development to validate your pages. Keep the number of issues to resolve at any given time as small as possible.

The website must AT LEAST include these XHTML elements (other than required structural elements) and any other elements you deem necessary:

· Heading Element

· Paragraph Element

· Line Break and Horizontal Rule

· Blockquote Element

· Phrase Elements

· Unordered List

· Ordered List

· Description List

· Special Entity Characters

· Div Element

· An Anchor Element

· An Absolute hyperlink to another website

· A Relative hyperlink to a page within your project

When you are finished, upload your website to your server to a subdirectory of your public_html (you will have to create the subdirectory). To complete your assignment, submit a simple Microsoft Word document that has the following content: Your name, Title of your Website, and link to your website. This way, the instructor will have a link that will go directly to your website.