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I've just built a website for Write-Minded.co.uk, using Joomla! Content Management software and I'm very pleased at how easy and user friendly it is, both for me to develop and for the owners of the site, who can log on and add or update articles from the site's homepage.
In the past I've turned down work because I only offered hand built websites, but now I'll be able to provide function rich websites to potential clients.
Content Management will allow clients to update their websites, giving them greater control over content as well as freeing up my time for building new websites rather than updating old ones. A win-win situation!
When I build a website I have to reduce the size of photographs so that they'll load quickly and easily in a web browser. I normally use Adobe Photoshop Elements to do this.
However, if you don't have this software on your PC, why not use Google's Picasa software, which is available to download free of charge. Go to http://picasa.google.com/ and follow the instructions.
There are numerous tutorials on the web to tell you how to resize photos (search for "picasa resize image"), such as http://www.latech.edu/tech/rural/website%20project/web_tutorial/articles/resize_pictures_picasa.html . The help within Picasa is good too.
I use Picasa when I want to resize several pictures at once, such as when I want to load up photos to an online gallery.
I have just added some family documents I inherited along with my family photographs to my Last Bartlett family history site, including old ID cards, vaccination certificates, wedding invitations, ration books and a letter to my great-grandfather from Prime Minister Gladstone in 1885.
Why not take a look?
I've built websites for a couple of Norfolk artists - Andrew Pettitt (http://www.vivid-images.co.uk/) and Vanna Bartlett (http://www.vanna-art.co.uk/) and in the last few days I've added new pictures to both these sites.
On Wednesday I added some watercolour paintings to Vanna's site - see http://www.vanna-art.co.uk/Watercolours.htm. Earlier this month I added Vanna's acrylic painting of Winter Apples, Fieldfares and Redwing (above), inspired by the large flocks of fieldfares and redwings currently in Norwich.
Wishing you a Happy New Year from Design Different.
Here in Norfolk the cold snap continues.
Yesterday saw the Norfolk countryside coated with a light dusting of snow, as we went for a lovely walk in the sunshine, starting and finishing at Blickling Hall (pictured).
