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Webmastering
I created RockCairn.com with a number of things in mind.
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Who is my audience. |
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Speed (can the average 28Kbps connected person efficiently use the site?) |
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Finding information which is of interest fast. |
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Moving through the pages with ease. |
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Making the initial page load fast and give immediate direction of where to go next. |
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Providing an obvious way to submit questions and suggestions to the
Webmaster. |
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Providing interesting and eye catching graphics without
distracting from the site. |
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Providing a good color scheme for viewer to easily read the pages. |
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Make sure that people can find the web site through the most commonly used search engines. |
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A way to keep track of the number of "hits" the site gets. |
The Tools.
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Front Page (Microsoft) |
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Java technical know how. |
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Adobe PhotoShop. |
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HP Scanner. |
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Digital Camera and Digital Video recorder. |
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CGI knowledge, or at least knowing how the read code and modify it. |
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Web hosting; current ISP or try www.godaddy.com
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WS_FTP to upload files to web site server. |
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Interest in learning new technologies. |
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Not afraid the make mistakes. |
The Tricks.
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Testing your pages in both Mozzila (Firefox)
and IE browsers. |
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Use of tables with boarder=0 to get exact page look and
spacing, or CSS exact positioning. |
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Adding pictures to the site which are of low page weight (kbs) but link to a better image. |
The Domain
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Register a domain name at a place like www.godaddy.com |
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Have them host or forward/mask your domain. |
The Resources.
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RockCairn.com