Building your own website + Open Office
JH writes:
Today I gave a talk about building websites, and mentioned that I use
free software which you can download from the internet ... software
such as Kompozer and Gimp (for reducing the size of your photos and
for making banners).
You can find lots of info about how to use these on the internet. I
have put together a website with a few pages on Kompozer and Gimp …
http://jwebdesigns.angelfire.com/
Another of my websites … http://jwebdesigns.110mb.com/ … gives
advice on how to set up a website using 110MB dot com … please ignore
the first few pages on Kompozer and Gimp, which I've put on to fill
the space.
Other websites I mentioned were …
Flickr … to share your photos with family & friends
http://www.flickr.com/
Here's a link to my own site … http://www.flickr.com/photos/14836724@N00/
You can put up to 200 photos onto Flickr free of charge, and you can
put lots more on for payment of about £15 a year. You can link up with
groups such as Flickr Nottingham, where you'll find lots of
inspirational photos. Flick Blog is fab to look at too.
Clikpic … ready-made websites for photographers to display or sell their
pics ...
http://www.clikpic.com/
DH Counselling … the first website I set up, with the help of my friend,
Barry, and my daughter, Emily. http://www.dhcounselling.co.uk/
Have a look at the mouse roll-over effects set up for the links,
built into the source code.
To see the latter, do a right mouse-click on the home page … you
will see my metatags in the Head section of the HTML code … these are
hidden keywords. Try a search in Google for “counselling Nottingham”
and see which Google page the website appears on (hopefully on Google
page 1 or 2). Creating metatags for your website helps advertise
your website, if you wish to attract visitors. You can get a free
hit-counter from Statcounter for your site.
The banner was created to fit inside the box using Gimp … it's
important to get the measurements exactly right for a banner, and
not to stretch the image in any way (or your text will lose its
sharpness). The banner for Nottingham U3A and the long blue lines
were also made using Gimp.
Here is the Nottm U3A website hosted on Angelfire
http://nottu3a.angelfire.com/
…. Angelfire is free web-hosting service, which is paid for by
the advertising you'll see on it.
As regards choice of font for the text, I recommend Arial 12, and
also using grey text on a white background for more comfortable
viewing for your readers.
You are welcome to copy the layout of the metatags, and the source
code for the mouse-rollover effect and for the clock you can see
on the Nottm U3A website, as I borrowed the code from someone else
myself. Other free clocks are available from HERE.
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Right at the start of the meeting, I gave another plug for using
Open Office, which is yet more free software you can download from
the internet.
You can download it from here … http://www.openoffice.org/
I use it for writing text documents (which can be converted to
PDF files for emailing and for printing), and for creating
slideshow presentations & spreadsheets. It's best to download
it early in the morning, as it's a huge download.
I've written a few articles on how to use Open Office, which
you'll find on the Computer Club blogsite …
http://nottu3a.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
I hope I've inspired a few of you to have a go yourselves at
creating a website.
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On 24 March, I'll be giving a talk on how to set up a site on
Blogger, whereby you can join an online community of people
with similar interests to yourself. You are now looking at one
of my blogsites (created in Old Blogger), by the way.
