[AccessD] OT: Web Design

Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Nov 21 18:58:23 CST 2008


Interesting.  Further nosiness (and Mr Moderator - it IS OT Friday) - are
you married and/or have kids?  Can you raise a family there?   It looks
pretty moderne from the picture on the web site.  Decent infrastructure?
Healthcare? Stable government/economy/society?  


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 4:49 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Web Design

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!).


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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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