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Website Design – Class Two
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Web Site Design – Class One
We’ve started, Wednesday’s class was the first web design class. We established some goals for the course, with two students wanting to have somewhere to display art works, one wanting to promote a quartet she’s part of, and another wanting to set up a site for an asphalting business.
Structurally it left a bit to be desired, my keenness to give a broad technical overview at the start may have caused more confusion than necessary. I did cover the ground intended, and below are the web site components we covered. Continue reading
Business Websites
MYOB paired up with Google (MYOB asked very nicely to be associated with Google) with this service, starting in February. Free site+domain for a while, $75 worth of Google AdWords, it doesn’t seem bad. The websites aren’t particularly great, and after 12 months, the hosting is $5 a month, $10 if you want extra ecommerce functionality, and the domain is $30~ a year. It appears expensive to those like myself who pay $10 for a .com and $80 a year for hosting, but a business that can’t cope with a $150 a year on webvertising should maybe not be in business.
Articles of interest – Passwords and Browsers
Leafing through the Green Guide, there were two articles that may be of interest to the computers classes that may be of interest.
Not-so-secret passwords (Charles Wright) looks at the weakness of passwords selected by a large number of computer users.
The brewing browser brouhaha (Adam Turner) gives a concise overview of available web browsers as well as a short history.
From book to iphone
“Whistle Up The Chimney” is the story of a grandmother who lives alone, and one winter, receives a truck load of fire wood that contains parts of old trains. Each night, after the fire is set, a train comes rushing out of the fire place, out the door, and into the night. It has my name scrawled on it as best I could 25 years ago, and I was hesitant to loan it to a family friend. Given my propensity for dorky things and our friend owning an iPad, I scanned the book’s pictures, typed up the text, and created an eBook.
The book is a little smaller than A4 closed, and so I scanned each image and typed out the text, loosing the cute little train on the left hand side (which progresses along each page and works as a flip book). Continue reading