PART TWO

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Internet style "Presentations" will probably consist of mainly text and .gif files. For photographic images .jpg files are necessary or .png (portable network graphics).

See for example our page concerning screen capture using print screen, the built in Windows screen capture program. Large graphic files here but necessary because of color and photographic resolutions.

See also our page concerning control alt delete, to see what super basic two color .gif files can do. All five graphics files on that page will add up to only around 40k, teeny, tiny, a fast download for the entire web page. That is because of using only two color .gif's. But they do the job for this particular sort of work.

Writing a "presentation" does not require a web page editor, Notepad or Wordpad or any word processor or text editor will do. The idea for any "presentation" is what you think you wish to say about something. It could be geneology, sea shells, gps navigation, digital cameras or whatever as subjects, no? That could be planned on a yellow legal pad or a napkin. If you have a good memory just your head will do.

So if you have an idea and a few simple graphics you could use Windows Notepad to create a web page, no editor is really necessary. But that means learning html and the structure of web authoring. Here is an example of this pages html, (don't freak out or anything)......................

<td><div align="center">
<h1>PART TWO</h1>
<p align="left"><font color="#FF9900">&quot;Presentations&quot; <font color="#000000">will
probably consist of mainly text and .gif files. For photographic images
.jpeg files are necessary or .png (portable network graphics).</font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000">See <a href="../education/print_screen.htm">our
page concerning screen capture using print screen</a>, the built in
Windows screen capture program.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000">See <a href="../education/ctrl_alt_del.htm">...........

A free web editor like NVU can be downloaded.

Free web editors like NVU take away the necessity to learn all the html stuff. Learning NVU or Frontpage Express or another free web editor is the only learning curve/barrier to having a web page complete in a few minets.

If you do not feel comfortable doing a web page yourself just collect your text and instructions and .gif's and pass them along to someone else in the club. Use the Internet to pass these along.

Our experienced members should be able to use their computers and the Internet to do such things by now (years!).

The old paper brochure of The North Florida Computer Society had that Lew Greer made listed the Internet, desktop publishing, email and by implication graphics and associated skills as reasons to join.

The ability of our experienced members to do these things routinely defines the quality of our club, not membership numbers, not 501(c) registration or cash. The resulting skill of our members is the deal.

Consider the following:... the hope of beginners is to make progress in using computer gear and software. By example our core members show what beginners should expect.

Don't worry about it, get on with it!

See NVU at work in this super basic 101

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