Posts tagged "UK"

How 2 Create a Website with 1and1 – 4 Beginners (Part 1)

http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=13530475
Hey guys, this is my first tutorial, teaching you how to create your own website using 1and1 hosting services. I will also explain some of the key features used in order to create the basic looking website as well as a flash website. Hopefully you can learn a few things from it.

This tutorial is aimed more at beginners and for those that do not want to invest a lot of money in a website, so if you’re looking for more expert methods I will be creating some more tutorials shortly on how to use Hosegator and the advanced hosting services. All of the services that I mention in this tutorial I have tried and can state that I have benefited from them. If you have any questions feel free to reply and ask, or message me and I will reply.

Take a look at a couple of the websites that I created with 1and1.

www.CreativeCribs.com (Flash Website)

www.JobFinder101.com (Basic Website)

Thanks for watching, see below a-z steps on how to create a website from scratch.

The following tools is what I used to get started at a very low cost and the learning curve is very easy.

Getting started – Sign up to http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=13530475 the cost is under $10 a month and most of the time they advertise the first 2 or 3 months free. Once you do this buy your domain name within the account.

Once inside go to Website Builder or for a Flash website go to Dynamic Site creator, once you picked out the color scheme and formats it’s time to create the most important thing and that is content!

Writing content can be easy for some but if you are like me it can be very time consuming eventually I learned that the best time for me to write is in the morning when my mind is fresh and my thoughts are clear. The key factor that works for me is when I write I want it to be automatically saved – so many times I can be writing and something happens where I have to step away from the computer or simply my screen freezes up and I wind up loosing my work when I was so deep in thought. SO I started using my gmail account to write my content – Open up a page like i am about to write a email and create a topic in the subject and then start writing – gmail constantly auto saves everything as a draft, also spellchecks and if i need the content at a later date I can do a search at the top of the email account to pull it up. Very cool tip!

But for those that have a problem with creating content or just run out of topics, there are websites out there that will sell you the content.

Another neat idea is when you are creating the look for your website you want to start by creating a draft – and do not do this draft on the website. start your draft on some type of presentation software like powerpoint and once the draft is done then create it on the website you will find that when you do your draft in a application that you are very familiar with your work will move faster and your creativity will pop.

one more idea for the road is to do your research on similar sites and your competition Key factor……

Hopefully this giant post helped a few people.

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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) – why bother?

Vizcom Design talk SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), and increasing online traffic, but not before fondly remembering Dial-Up connection.

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Big Brother Hates Being Filmed!

Photographers Rights And The Law In The UK – A brief guide for street photographers.

Know your rights when you’re out with your camera.

Despite the law being clear on a citizen’s rights to freely take pictures in public places (with a few restrictions) there is growing evidence of the police, police community support officers (PCSOs), security guards and general jobsworths failing to respect the rights of photographers going about their lawful business.

For more info on photographers rights, please visit:

http://www.urban75.org/photos/photographers-rights-and-the-law.html

Special thanks to:

http://youtube.com/FKNnewz

http://youtube.com/DarrenPollard1st

http://current.com/people/opencircuit

http://youtube.com/SparksVids

http://youtube.com/BrianHowes390

UPDATE:
In the UK, a new “Counter Terrorism Act” came into force on 16th February 2009. It contains an amendment to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This amendment will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable “of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”.

Furthermore, Schedule 7 of the Bill applies this amendment to internet service providers and web hosting services. This means they will have a legal duty to remove all sites perceived to fall under this offence, and has provisions for use at home and abroad.

It is unclear what information will be classed as useful to terrorists, but due to this ambiguous wording, the Bill has implications for bloggers, journalists, photographers, activists and anyone who values freedom of speech.

We must show that we won’t be intimidated, or called terrorists for resisting or monitoring repressive policing.

Fitwatch are one of the groups who could be targeted by this new legislation. Fitwatch, started two years ago by activists, resists and opposes the use of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) on demonstrations. FIT are police officers who photograph, follow, and generally intimidate protesters. They bring, in the words of Jacqui Smith, harassment style policing to protests.

As part of this opposition, Fitwatch run a blog http://www.fitwatch.blogspot.com/ where they share information about these officers. We feel this blog could be under threat from this new legislation.

Whilst Fitwatch may not like officers who act outside of the law, they are certainly not terrorists.

Neither are:

* people filming, and uploading to Youtube, footage of police officers acting illegally.

* bloggers writing about being randomly stopped and searched.

* journalists publishing details of corrupt or racist cops.

* photographers publishing photographs of police on protests.

The list goes on, but all are under threat.

This legislation not only attempts to stifle our ability to hold the police force to account for their actions, but also attacks the principles of open publishing on the internet. It must be resisted.

Please join the mass action and oppose this ludicrous law.

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How To Upload Your Website with a Free Domain and Hosting Service

If you have already finished making your website but wanting to know how to get it up online, here’s the tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to upload your website to a free Hosting service and how to get a free domain name for your website, just like my website. Make sure your files of your website are in one folder.

The hosting website is called Locker Nerd. It does provide a free hosting service but it is not as excellent as the ones you have to pay for since they provide more storage. But this hosting service is good enough, even if there’s alot of media in it. Here’s the link -

http://lockernerd.co.uk/

The domain name provider is ‘CO.CC’. This is my favorite because it is, well, almost close to like ‘co.uk’ but with a ‘cc’ instead so it’ nice. Also, you can get certain domain names you want either free, or $3 per year (That’s if your domain is short and easy that is). Here’s the link to it -

http://www.co.cc/

Then follow the instructions in the video on how to register, upload, and browse your website, publicly!

ENJOY!

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Website Video Design – Web Design

Website Video Design – 10 years experience with internet marketing, web design and web development, video production and video post production. Website Video Design produce quality web video and web design from broadcast quality filming studios with the latest video filming, video lighting, and video editing equipment, Nottingham, UK

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SEO Title Tags – Seo Video

http://www.gsinc.co.uk/video/seo-videos.html SEO tutorial Video. Discover what title tags are, why are they important for SEO and how to write them, in this 4 minute SEO video tutorial by Gareth Davies of GSINC Ltd. For more SEO, Link Building and ECommerce tips visit http://www.gsinc.co.uk/video/seo-videos.html

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