One-to-one Personalized Coaching versus Public Class Training
October 17, 2008
One-to-one or small class (max 3 trainees) training is for you for any one or more of the following reasons:
- You want personalized attention
- You are big-classroom shy (!) but you really want to learn
- You cannot wait for the public class dates and don’t have one or two (sometimes even three) full days to spare per subject
- You would like to establish a continuing rapport with the trainer for advanced level courses
- You would like to train on your own computer with your own data sometimes
- You want a slightly customized course
- You don’t mind a slightly higher cost
Public Classroom Training is for you if:
- You are looking for a general curriculum
- You don’t mind large classes with diffused attention
- You want relatively lower costs than that with personalized training
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What does the cost of a website design depend on?
October 17, 2008
Websites can be very varied. Generally, the following types of factors decide the cost a website:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
1) The number of distinct page design types that will be required. For instance, the homepage, the products page, the services page, the customers page, the company page and the contact page may have different designs. That would count as 6 page layouts.
2) The number of actual pages to created. For instance if there is a site (with the six layouts mentioned above) that has say 10 pages for products, 6 pages for services and 8 pages for customers, with the rest being only single pages. Then the total pages will count as an approximately 30 page site.
3) The kind of content that needs to be placed on the website: simple text and imagesonly, Adobe Flash content, static video, streaming video, podcasts etc.
4) The programming pieces required. For instance:
- User Regsitration and Limiting Access
- Newsletters
- Contact Forms
- Blogs
- Discussion Forums and Wikis
- Support through online chat
- Protected or Open Guestbooks
- etc
ADVANCED REQUIREMENTS
5) Electronic Commerce (or EPayment) requirements which can range from the simplest to the most complex:
- Simple Paypal style interfaces - for startup merchants with a few products
- Complete Shopfront - for established merchants with good bent or marketing and sales (vouchers, discounts, old customer campaigns etc)
- Complete EMall (with many shopfronts) - for the largest hosting providers or for electronic subletting
6) Custom programming required. For instance a requirement may be to show some imaging of a dress or a hairstyle on a person. Or a requirement may be to show a 10% preview/sample of a song or video. Or pull out some data based on a certain search criterion from a database.
Before talking to a web designer it would be good if you gave a good thought to what you want to put on your website based on the above factors (and more if required). At least have an idea of the ”basic” requirements. This cystallizing of your thought makes it much easier for the web designers to give you a logical estimate of the cost. It also makes it much easier for you to compare the prices from different vendors.
Happy website creating !!
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Multiple Pages Per Sheet
May 21, 2008
You can save a lot of paper by using this feature which allows you to print many pages on just one paper. And do you know that you can actually print 16 pages on just a page. Although reading the wordings might be difficult, you will be saving a lot of paper. Just follow these steps.
1. Load the document you want to print
2.Choose the Print option from the File menu. Word displays the Print . Word displays the ‘Print Dialog’ (If using Word 2007, you display the Print dialog box by clicking the Office button and then clicking Print.)
3. Use the Pages Per Sheet drop-down list (lower-right corner) to specify how many pages should be combined on each printed page.
4. Specify any other printing options, if you wish.
5. Click on OK to print your document.
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Picking up where you stopped
May 16, 2008
MICROSOFT WORD: If you are working on the same document but in many multiple editing sessions, this tip will be very useful and will help you start off faster. When you open a document that you were last editing using Word, use the SHIFT+F5 combination to quickly reach to where you last stopped. This is also good way to return to where you were editing after you have browsed through the document.
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Moving paragraphs around without mouse selection
May 15, 2008
MICROSOFT WORD: Don’t you feel fustrated when you have placed the paragraph at a wrong place? You have to select the entire paragraph and move it. Now you don’t have to.
With this trick moving around paragraphs nearby becomes a piece of cake.
- Position the insertion point in the paragraph you want to move.
- While holding down the Shift and Alt keys, press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to move the paragraph.
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Why is having a website essential?
May 11, 2008
WEB DESIGN: Times have changed.
People spend more of their life in front of a computer than they do in front of the TV or reading the newspaper. And when they need something they would rather just search for it online. No newspaper classifieds, no yellow pages. Even passive advertising (i.e. not something you actively search for - your conventional advertisements), previously the stronghold of TV, newspapers and magazines has grown on the internet.
Given this change in people’s attitude and means of finding what they want, it is only obvious that anyone with any scale of business or other public ambition just simply needs a webite….
Now !
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