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This is the
Intel 8088
processor which went into almost all the PC clones at the
time.
I bought my first clone in 1988, a month after I got my first command on
the Mahanuwara. It cost another half a months pay but was slowly deducted off my salary
as I bought it from a sister company which owned my ship.
At the time we used DOS and nobody hardly ever bothered with Windows as it was
in version 2.1 and the screen looked weird if you used the windows programs as
such as cardfile...
The software current at the time was Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and d'Base IV.
My machine had a modest 20MB hard disk to which I later added another 40MB which
I myself installed after buying it from Karachi; ran around like a blue assed
fly when it did not work! nobody had told me to partition it until I found
the solution by pure accident...
I also added a 8087 Math Co-processor which speeded up the machine.
I used this faithful machine for 8 good years, until 1995 before I went in for my
first Pentium machine which came with Windows '95.
With the new operating system came my first exposure to the internet as the
University of Moratuwa where I was a lecturer gave internet access to all the
academic staff. I also got meself a private e-mail address in addition to the
mailbox I had at the University.
At the time in 1996 I tried to convince many people that communication by e-mail
was more faster and more cheaper than sending faxes. As is usual, nobody believed
me; the reason given was that it was not secure to do business by mail. Today,
it would be hard to believe how we did any business without the internet and
e-mail!
In 2002 I bought a Pentium III machine which is still in use as a back up,
networked with my main computer, a Pentium Dual Core.
This computer I use now is a Pentium Dual Core running at 2GHz with 2GB RAM and
160GB HDD. It also has a DVD Drive and an additional DVD R/W drive. I use a
HP-3940 Deskjet Printer and a HP-2400 flatbed scanner.
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This website you are in was created using
MS Visual Web Developer 2008 - Express Edition
which is available freely.
To make a website or otherwise one needs a variety of other software to optimize
documents.
In this respect I use a host of software such as Adobe PDF Maker, Photoshop,
VSO Image Resizer
and interestingly one web based
Web Photo Resizer
This last utility is of particular value as it resizes and optimizes the images
to a base of 400 px (L or B) keeping the aspect ratio.
It is helpful to standardize the size of the images unless you want them in the
raw and on full scanned proportions. The download time is dramatically reduced
when you have a standard... and do not forget to insert alternate text into the
pic frame... so that there is a pointer to the image while it being downloaded.
Two of the greatest challenges that a web designer would come across is to make
a Photo Album and a Feedback Form.
The latter requires writing XML and XSLT style sheets - which I am studying
furiously at the moment.
Photo Albums are easy to make with
J-Album
and if one has a few gray matter upstairs they could be intergrated to your page links
using <iframe></iframe> tags.
Now that you have created your website it needs to be advertised on the search
engines and indexed by them. You also need to install tracking codes to monitor your vistors.
The best search engine is Google, at the moment not to mention Livesearch, Yahoo
& AltaVista.
In submitting your site to any of these search engines you require to submit a
sitemap.xml where upon it will index all the pages of your website. The web
pages themselves have to have metadata on the headers. Finally a robot.txt file
needs to be added at the root directory.
Now you can submit your site to
Google Analytics
and use
Google Webmaster Tools
You can also submit your site to
Yahoo Site Explorer
and
MSN Webmaster Live Tools
In case you need more advise on site submission please
E-mail me.
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