[AccessD] OT: Web Design

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Nov 21 18:49:29 CST 2008


It needs to load fast, a lot of potential clients in PNG are on dial up.


Since you ask:
I came to PNG in 1986, on a three year contract, to set up training and testing systems with 
the PNG Police College.  They were looking for people with disciplined forces and training 
backgrounds and I had  12 years as an infantry officer in the New  Zealand Army including 
several postings as an instructor in various areas.  

I'd been into computer since about 1980, both as a hobbyist and at work and ended up 
developing student records and exam marking systems in Dataflex (running on C/CPM on 
serial networked ICL Quattros - ah, those were the days<g>)
  
Found that I liked the lifestyle here so I stayed.   Started developing all sorts of Information 
Systems on the side for various people and ended up in 1993 going independent full time,  
using Dataflex mainly, but about then I discovered MS Access 1.1 and I've never looked 
back. ( although we only put the last Dataflex system that I was involved with to sleep at the 
beginning of this year!).


-- 
Stuart

On 21 Nov 2008 at 15:49, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access  wrote:

> Lovely.  Loads fast. I like that.  
> 
> OK, I gotta ask - how'd you end up in PNG?  Or did you start there? 
> 
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.e-z-mrp.com
> www.bchacc.com
>  
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Web Design
> 
> I've just updated my site at http://www.lexacorp.com.pg over the last few
> days.
> 
> I built it using frames <bleuch> about 6 or 7 years ago and it was looking
> very tired and old fashioned.
> 
> The new version uses Server Side Includes for a consistent layout
> 
> That way I just need a line
> <!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
> in each page rather than repeating all the background, header image, menu
> code etc.
> I do the same for the footer. 
> 
> Incidentally, the menu is a straight lift from <quote>
> /***********************************************
> * CSS Horizontal List Menu- by JavaScript Kit (www.javascriptkit.com)
> * Menu interface credits:
> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/glossy-vertical-
> menu/
> * This notice must stay intact for usage
> * Visit JavaScript Kit at http://www.javascriptkit.com/ for this script and
> 100s more ***********************************************/
> </quote>
> 
> Feel free  to steal any ideas you need for content.
> Rocky's site, build by  Karen Rosenstiel,  may give you a few ideas too.
> 
> Actually, I've never found a WYSIWYG site designer that I like - I've ended
> up doing it hand with a text editor which understands HTML syntax.  (I swap
> between Crimson Editor and
> NoteTab)  
> 
> --
> Stuart
> 
> 
> On 21 Nov 2008 at 9:28, Tony Septav wrote:
> 
> > Hey All
> > After much research, I finally settled on looking at the trial version 
> > of WebEasy7.  I had to start somewhere, the more I researched the topic 
> > the more confusing it got, with all the pros and cons to different 
> > approaches. As I mentioned at the moment all I am concerned about  is 
> > getting a web page up and running, fancy will come later.
> > Thought this would give you all a laugh (talk about naive). The part I 
> > am finding most difficult, is filling in 4 pages of information - Home, 
> > Products, About Us and Contact us.  I know from a marketing point of 
> > view you are supposed to be trying to sell the company, but I have 
> > always been known as an individual who keeps things short and to the 
> > point. I figured one page would do it , but looking at other sites I 
> > don't think that is a good marketing idea. So I guess I will have to 
> > "time trip" through my 20 years of developing applications and put 
> > together an overview of what I can provide.  Here I thought I could bang 
> > this thing together in a couple of days,  but now I see it is going to 
> > take me 2 or 3 weeks to just initially put it together and come up with 
> > a powerful presentation.  My hat is off to those of you that have web 
> > sites, I now realize the work you put into to getting  them up and
> running.
> >  
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