Anyone here do website design?

You're going to go into the web page building business and you don't have 3 web sites for your portfolio?

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Everyone has to start somewhere.

Yup, I am one of the modern generation wiz kids. There are a lot of us. I went to elementary, middle and highschools for math, science and technology from the get go. In junior high I was taking Junior and senior highschool science and computer classes and in highschool I was earning college credits. My parents bought me my first top of the line computer the week they came out to use with my classes and I hit the ground running ever sense. It is hard to believe at first but thats why I have the references that dont mind answering phone calls on my behalf. My first jobs were for the schools I attended and being paid is the requirement for a job to be considered pro. My first paid website (though only $75) was when I was almost 11. Back then I used programs and my own design skills for most of the work. Now the majority of my work is nearly all hand coded. I also work with PHP and e commerce. I proffer to do simple designs these days that will load for people still on dialup and be easy to navigate. The website again should be http://www.esitefolio.biz/ Thanks.

Here are a few fully functioning sites that I created and maintain also. Again they are copy written so please using for ideas are fine but no copying. Thanks.

Brindle Horse Registry: http://www.americanbrindleequineassociation.com/

Potosi MO Masonic Lodge: http://www.mofreemason.com/potosi131/

Silversmith/Leathersmith's Portfolio: http://www.gnomeworks.biz/

Sorry again for the typo everyone. I am so used to .com lately... my portfolio is http://www.esitefolio.biz/ not .com. Thanks.

That's fine, and I wish you all the luck in the world. Really!

It just kinda reminded me of a newsgroup concerning search engine optimization (SEO) that I used to be a regular contributor to. One day I guy showed up in the newsgroup and announced that he was thinking of starting his own SEO consulting firm. His question was; how do you optimize web pages for search engines?

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My portfolio page:
EyerStation, Inc - web design

I do graphics design and write HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Cold Fusion, and SQL. My program of choice is Dreamweaver. Of course, I write in Notepad as well.

DH & I sell online, as do several of our website clients.

I'm not looking for any work right now. Just wanted to share....and to agree with Mama Johnson about recommending Dreamweaver.

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Thanks. By the way have any of you tried python for online programming?

This is our website
www.bluemoonspanishmustangs.com
My friend Kim is a webmaster and does a great job. If you are interested in seeing some more of her work please let me know. I can put you in touch wiht her.
She is a great person and does a fantastic job and is very professional and very reasonable.

Dreamweaver is a great tool as many have suggested, however it can be a challenge for those without experience. You should be able to download a free trial copy from http://www.downloads.com before you commit to buy. You may also want to consider building in http://www.freewebs.com as it is free and has fill in the blank type templates. For a small amount of cash you can buy your own domain name and not have banners on your site. Just a thought.

I use python all the time for a couple of Intranet sites I maintain and I have a couple of customers who host on my servers that use python.

Lee

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Hello Lisa,
I am Kim, mentioned below by Mustangsmiley. I have been a registered member but unable to post much, altho I do read the posts. I built and maintain their Blue Moon site, as well as a couple other sites currently. I also have experience in genealogy research, having researched mine for 10+ years. Please see my site at White Wolf Enterprises. Please contact me privately for more details or information.

My kid brother started at 14. That was in '92, so the web was still very young. If it had been a few years older, I have no doubt he would have started younger...

He's an administrator for Google these days...

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While there were a few introductory web browsers around in the early 1990s (such a Mosaic) Netscape wasn't released until 1994, and the first IE wasn't around until 1995. Prior to Netscape & IE, nobody really looked at web pages.

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Nope.
But web design was already beginning.
(And I remember being online before browsers, but I can't remember what we used!)

I vividly remember the day he showed me this "new world wide web" thing, though. I was home from college my freshman year (in the fall of '92).

"Check out what i can do with it!"
Our highschool (where he was tech support) was one of the first in Nebraska to have a web page. lol

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The Internet did exist, but around 1992 was the first most of us could get access to it. In the 1980s a lot of us were members of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). Those were command-line based systems (text only) using modem terminal software. You could email and chat with other members of the BBS, and they normally had a library of downloadable software.

Eventually the BBSs were able to intercommunicate email with each other, using a system called FidoNet, although they weren't connected to FidoNet persistently. They would connect, send & receive mail, then hang up. That allowed members of one BBS to send email to a member of another BBS. In the later years of BBSs we could send email to any Internet email address.

The only graphics we would see were images made by using ASCII characters. Something like this was not uncommon.



The problem with the BBS days was that most people weren't going to fool with it unless it was graphic and point & click. Therefore, BBSs weren't a good way to communicate with anyone except computer hobbyists. Also, due to the intermittent connection capabilities of FidoNet, it normally took a day or two for email to reach another BBS.

Here's a clip with people talking about the old BBS days.

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Nevada - I remember those days. The dial up BBS Prodigy, and a boat anchor computer that was given to me.

at work went from sys admin Unix classes and a big deal of connection to a weather map, and a terminal server to the first Internet uses in business, to Netscape and beyond.

Now, I wonder how work got done without email, heck faxes are use seldom in the work world around me.

Angie

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I really got into it in 1986 when I got my IBM-XT. With 640K of memory, a color monitor, and a 30 mb hard drive, I was ready to take on the world. I thought I was really hot with my 1200 baud modem. But back in those days we were completely confined to the BBS. There was no intercommunication to other systems.

There were practical uses for BBS software though. Computer hardware manufacturers often used BBS server software as a repository for downloadable software drivers.

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WOW good thing Al Gore came along and invented the Internet. What a good idea. Someone should give that man a prize.

Actually, Gore said he saved the Internet, not invented it.

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I belonged to several college-based BBSs. Mine, of course, was too small to have one of its own, though.
My brother was a SysOp for a couple. One was Rutgers, and the other somewhere in Missouri(?) I can't recall that one...
My handle was itsMeFred. lol
(I'm still itsMeFred in some communites...)


Boy, you're really bringing the stuff back, Nevada.

BTW: I only frequented BBSs until the fall of '93 (when I got a boyfriend and suddenly had better things to do than hang out in the lab.)

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