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When you browse allacrossthe Internet you will comeacrossand stumble u
Published Friday, 2nd Oct 09:52 BST
When you browse allacrossthe Internet you will comeacrossand stumble upon manyvaryingwebsites that will capture yourinterestand imagination. The style and layout of the millions of sites on the Internet is all down to website design. Many sites made by the same company normally use a base template that they use as the background and layout of the site, and then whoever uses the site decides what colours to have the differentcolumns, and background, although on some the background colour stays the same as the template. The base template for these sites is done very subtle and youwouldn'teven know it was a base template for lots of different sites unless you know what you are looking for, then it becomes quite easy to spot them all. Theinternet provider you are using now mostprobablyhas a home page, and that home page isprobablya basic website design template, with one or two new features all added onto it. If you have some time to spare then try this out: Go to a search engine and type in the names of a few well knownInternetproviders and check out their home pages. Chances are you will see many similarities in their website design. On some smaller websites they may use the same website design as some of the much bigger websites butunfortunatelythey could behidinga little nasty bit ofInternettechnology: a virus.Virus' are made by people who simply have too much time on their hands and nothing to do with that time, so they decided to make a small programme that, when downloaded unknowingly to the person who is downloading it, will get on their computer and mess around with a few important files on the computer, making it very slow, sometimes unresponsive and at worse, making some files not workcompletelywhich in turn will cause the computer not to workproperly. This all seems very scary but fear not as there is software known as anti-virus software that will stop these virus' from getting onto your computer. You can get the software two different ways and these are either downloading it off of the maker of the software's website, or buying it in your local computer shop. Dozens of good anti-virus programmesexistbut what ever one you get is down to your ownpreference, but itdoesn'treally matter what one you get as they all do the same job, keeping the pesky virus' out, and the do a really good job too.
Nowadayswhereveryou look you can seeadvertisements, and I do mean ever
Published Thursday, 1st Oct 12:39 BST
Nowadayswhereveryou look you can seeadvertisements, and I do mean everywhere. At thebeginningwhen companies first started to advertise their product or products they would put a small advert in papers or in magazines that would go on sale everywhere in the hope that people would use them and visit their shop, or use the product that is being advertised. Adverts were also displayed on bigbillboardsnormally found on the walls of buildings or at train stations. Adverts were also very common on radio stations every where. Later on when motor transport became more and more commonadvertisementswere placed on buses and placed on cars that were taking part in motor sports races. Todayadvertisementsrule our world. You cannot turn without seeing anadvertisementand a very bigpieceof technology which plays a massive part in advertising is the Internet, specifically advertising on-line asit isguaranteedthat while you are surfing the Internet almost every web site you go on will have some sort ofadvertisementon it. Some of these adverts pop-up at you on the screen where as the other, more cunning ones are blended into the web page design but still have the ability to attract your attention. It is very clever how a certain web page design will have their adverts placed in specifically programmed places. It's amazing and abrilliantthing as they give the option of clicking on the adverts only if you want to, rather than thempoppingup at you and giving you no choice in looking at them or not. The web page design of the pop-upadvertisementsare quite clever too, as some will redirect you to the site hosting the product they are advertising even if you click the red X to get rid of the pop-up. It's a very clever bit of programming and a bit cheeky too as it getsguaranteedtraffic to their site and if ensures that almost everyone who visits the site containing the pop-up will be redirected to their site, even only for a fewminutesor seconds. I suppose you could say that web page design is the center of onlineadvertisementsas without thewebpages and the people who design them wewouldn'thave such things. Some of the adverts canunfortunatelybe annoying but that is only a very small few. Most of the adverts on sites are very nice and I have bought a few things because of the adverts I saw online as without them Iwouldn'thave seen what I had bought. If adverts are this advanced now, think how advanced they will be in 10 or even 20 years time. It's veryinterestingto think about.
Good web designers will know more than anything else that a very good
Published Thursday, 1st Oct 11:17 BST
Good web designers will know more than anything else that a very good andefficientserver is required to host the site and all the information on the site. If it's your first website that you are making then have a think about what you want the web site to be about, and choose wisely. You will get a lot of visitors to your site if it is about just the one topic rather than a few topics all on the one site, however if your site is aboutseveraldifferent topics then you could gain lots more visitors by making content related to the topics and hosting them for download on your site. The content could be anything from a podcast to let all your visitors know about the latest happenings on the site and what's coming up, or a new desktop background picture so people can decorate their desktops with a picture related to your site. On top of all this, good web designers know their budgets and can work to them. All too often new web designers starts up a new site but don't take into account the budget. You need to think about how much the host servers will cost, and how many visitors you will get to your site, and most of all if it is worth it. Don't go into it half-hearted, give it your absolute all, and if the web site is about a topic you enjoy then itshouldn'tbe much of a problem getting the motivation to do it and see it through. If you are having trouble with the site, like getting differentprogramsto work and such things, then a good idea is to get in contact with a group of web designers as they will be more than happy to give you help with what you are having trouble with, and advice about your web site. You will also make some very good friends who are into the same kind of things that you are. If your site is verypopularthen you could install a chat room on it so people can gather there and talk about the site and the topic that the site is about. You will also make some good friends that way and if the room is asuccess, you could hold meetings in it at scheduled times, kind of like a bored meeting which would be very good for a laugh and some jokes with the friend that you make from the site.
I did A Levels in Travel and Tourism, French and Spanish. I did a Dipl
Published Wednesday, 30th Sep 10:39 BST
I did A Levels in Travel and Tourism, French and Spanish. I did a Diploma in Travel and Tourism. I left college and become a travel consultant in London. I sold around the world tickets to independent travellers. My boss wanted to to travel to he gave me six weeks paid holiday a year. I got heavily discounted flights. I went to Australia in 1993, New Zealand in 1994, Hong Kong in 1995, Singapore in 1996, the USA in 1997, Canada in 1998 and Malaysia in 1999.
My part time occupation is a freelance web designer. Actually i was a
Published Monday, 28th Sep 19:24 BST
My part time occupation is a freelance web designer. Actually i was a full time web designer on the period of 2005 - 2006. My jobs it creating web designs for my clients and i think this is a good job since i'm fluent with it so far. There are some requirements in order for doing this job. First, we need to have a good internet access. I use my mobile broadband internet access for this purposes. We need a fast internet access for checking our ftp server after the web is finished, we also need it for finding many useful resources for our working purposes. There are a lot of website offering many useful scripts which can make our web designing job even easier. We also need this internet access for trying our script on our website especially if the web using server side scripting which need web access between server and client computer. Currently i have one desktop PC and one laptop. But mostly i use my desktop PC for my web designs jobs. Desktop PC has better performance for hard work than laptop. Doing a web designs job need a collaboration between many software, such as image editing, sound editing, 2D animations, 3D animations, video, etc. So for such purposes i think a desktop PC is much better than laptop because laptop has limited performance. Nowadays a website with flash animation inside is a most wanted. We can see such site such as YouTube. This is the phenomenon on internet industry. A video streaming website which owned by Google. And the most interesting thing is it's free for using this website. Doing web designs job is totally different with other design subject such as interior design or home design. We don't need a painting area, or pencils, or paints. In web designs job, all we need is a computer with internet connection. Of course it doesn't mean we can do it with any kind of computer. A computer with high specification is strongly required. At the beginning of year 2000, web designer is one of the top ten most wanted job in this world. I think that time was the glorious for web designers. But today, the situation is totally different. Especially during this recession period, mostly web designers doing their job with freelance mode. However it's better than nothing to do. Being a freelance web designer is mean being your own boss for yourself. There are a lot of website offering web designing jobs on a bidding scheme. So, no need to worry about finding such project. There are a lot of web designing project we can 'fight' with on the internet. Just build your own portfolio and offering a reasonable and affordable price list, i believe such things can works and you'll get many job offers. Good luck.
In my childhood computer were not around. I didn't get to use a comput
Published Thursday, 24th Sep 01:41 BST
In my childhood computer were not around. I didn't get to use a computer until I was sixteen years old. I got a job as an assistant in an IT suite in a primary school. Not many of teachers knew much about the Internet. I had to sort out all the problems that the children with the computers. Pairs of children had to share the computers. It was so challenging when Year 6 were working on the computers. One very naughty eleven year old boy got a virus onto our computer system. I worked there for five years.
My great aunt is not very technically minded, and when I suggested to
Published Friday, 14th Aug 07:13 BST
My great aunt is not very technically minded, and when I suggested to her that she got a computer, she looked at me as if I had just come from Mars. I really thought she would benefit from a computer, so for her birthday I bought her one. A friend of the family is a web developer so I got him to explain the basics. We searched for the best broadband available in her area and got her hooked up to the Internet. She didn't understand the whole broadband thing and after trying to explain it to her 3 times we gave up and just told her she was on broadband and that's all she needed to know.
Lou was still back at his old job with the web page design company. Hi
Published Friday, 14th Aug 06:10 BST
Lou was still back at his old job with the web page design company. His attempt as a house building and extension works contractor failed miserably, not to mention that his daydream about being a driving instructor remained a daily fantasy of his own creation.
'Welcome to my domain'was the message that splashed across the screen
Published Thursday, 6th Aug 00:31 BST
'Welcome to my domain'was the message that splashed across the screen of Cynth's pc, as she tried to access the enemy site using various browsers, besides internet explorer. The PC then froze and remained unresponsive to any commands. She had to find a way to hack through and break the hold that I-Vee was planning to have over the world.
eBay came into being an on-line auction website by the name of Auction
Published Wednesday, 5th Aug 22:32 BST
eBay came into being an on-line auction website by the name of AuctionWeb in 1995, but has since dominated the world to the extent that it has now become part of popular culture (as shown in Transformers: The Movie). It started with the on-line auction website now known as eBay.com but has since then acquired both Skype and Paypal and turned them into what they are now. Paypal acts as one of the bases of on-line investing as most of on-line investing is done using Paypal which is also used commonly for online shopping and sending and receiving money with friends and family. Skype is a program which has also become a household name. It is a must for people whose friends or family are living abroad as it erases all distances with its Video Chat which no other program can match. And eBay is THE place to find any unusual item or anything over which you don't want to spend too much money. After its release in the US, it has since been released in 30 other countries. Paypal is so well integrated into eBay that payment on eBay is seamless if you have Paypal. eBay's web site development is also top-notch as their websites feel more like polished software than an HTML web page. On-Line Investing has taken a new turn with the introduction of PayPal as payments are now hassle-free, one-click affairs. As eBay shocked the on-line auction world, Skype did so with the Communication one. And it is improving at a superb and commendable pace as program updates are very frequent and useful. eBay.com, though is losing it's glamour a little bit due to competitors such as Craigslist. And On-Line Retailers such as Amazon.com and Newegg.com have switched some people over due to their low-prices and hassle-free shopping involving no third-parties (most of the time). The internet would be quite a bit different had eBay not been alive and present. Thus is the story of eBay, how it came to be, what it is and what it means to the world, and where it is heading.
I have finally resigned from my tedious job in one of the five star ho
Published Wednesday, 5th Aug 17:39 BST
I have finally resigned from my tedious job in one of the five star hotels in the city. I changed my job from a hotelier to a website designer, dealing mostly in website designing, advertising on-line, getting the best internet provider and checking my email inbox for any new businesses.
When I am extremely stressed out with working at the office, thoughts
Published Tuesday, 4th Aug 14:44 BST
When I am extremely stressed out with working at the office, thoughts of doing my own business or working from home, come to mind. The desire to be free from rigid working hours, traffic jams, demanding clients, unreasonable bosses and office politics is sometimes overwhelming. Perhaps I could turn my hobbies into some money-making ventures, just as some of these entrepreneurs have been raving about.
'Are you two planning to be some kind of web designers or what? You tw
Published Tuesday, 4th Aug 06:07 BST
'Are you two planning to be some kind of web designers or what? You two have been spending a lot of time looking at that pc,' dad asked as he walked into my room. Kevin and I were looking at a site that was giving us tips on creating simple scripts to improve blog web sites.
Working in a webdesign agency, I had a network of friends that used to
Published Tuesday, 4th Aug 05:32 BST
Working in a webdesign agency, I had a network of friends that used to meet up at least once every week for drinks and a chat.This was a regular occurrence that sometimes got out of hand after a few drinks, and alot of money getting spent along the way.
As a web developer I must know many different programming languages an
Published Wednesday, 29th Jul 14:18 BST
As a web developer I must know many different programming languages and I need to be always informed about new issues and trends. It's not very difficult to do that when you've some friends all around the world and the only thing you've to do to contact them is log in with your user name and password in an application prepared for instant messaging. Since I heard that some kind of professional tool for web developers had come out I had to search in my contact list someone really special. She has been my friend since high school and I believe our friendship has been growing every year, right now she's in other country but we still have our traditional Christmasgetaways. Anyway I searched for a user name called "Lola532". Shewas offline, I decided to try againlater.
The world wide web has helped in making and creating jobs especially f
Published Wednesday, 29th Jul 14:02 BST
The world wide web has helped in making and creating jobs especially for individuals who lost their jobs because of the world wide financial recession crisis. Individuals who lost their jobs because of the recession did not slack off in finding other ways to find a job or another source of income.