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. > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com