[Hudlug] created a web page

[Tim Schofield]

Michael, I havent been following this mailing list for a while, so I am not sure how you have been progressing with linux. I take it that as you used MS word for your web site, that you haven't got a screen reader to meet your needs on linux yet? 

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MICHAEL WEAVER [mailto:michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com] 
> Sent: 18 September 2006 13:48
> To: HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [Hudlug] created a web page
> 
> 
> I forgot something in my replies to this message.
> I look forward to doing some programming in Linux.
> I tried VB and it was Terrible.
> I kind of did it as a unit at Dewsbury College.
> Charlie my Learning Assistant and me found we had to get the exact 
> layout otherwise it refused to accept an instruction ie you 
> had to get 
> right the correct spacing for a condition and laying out the screen 
> before you do your code is a pain.
> 
> Ben Fowler wrote:
> > On 15/09/06, MICHAEL WEAVER <michaelweaver1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >> I now have a presence on the web.
> >
> > Michael, it is good, it is very good.
> >
> > Indeed why bother with Linux if you can do all that in Word!
> >
> > Next time we meet, could you go over the steps you carry 
> out to create 
> > and/or update a web page using your chosen Windows tools. I 
> would very 
> > much like to be able to be set up the same workflow under Linux. I 
> > will freely admit that I cannot see any way of doing this 
> that is as 
> > easy as I would like.
> >
> > You are very welcome to put some pages on the Birstall and Howden 
> > Clough site if this suits you. We ought to be thinking about blogs 
> > (exempli gratia Wordpress http://wordpress.org/about/ ) for 
> B&HC LUG.
> >
> > I have viewed yoiur site in MacLynx, and would make these 
> suggestions 
> > and comments:
> >
> > * Main Page
> >
> > MICHAELS WEB SITE could be MICHAEL'S WEB SITE
> > web site hosting could be web page creation/writing
> >
> > You needn't have mentioned that you are blind. It is not 
> obvious from 
> > anything that has gone before; and I would add that your 
> breaking up 
> > the text into paragraphs (which blind people often do not 
> do), tends 
> > to indicate that you are happy to come across as an 
> individual rather 
> > than a blind individual. But that is up to you. Could you 
> say what you 
> > want to about purely visual content worded in such a way as 
> would not 
> > need any comment about blindness...
> >
> > I am not sure that you have the mailto: link quite right, but using 
> > Lynx as I am, I am not suggesting anything wrong with it. 
> The "About" 
> > link is fine, but you may have misplaced the tags in the link to 
> > HUDLUG.
> >
> > See http://www.eklhad.net/cli.html and 
> > http://www.blind.state.ia.us/ASSIST/chong-bio.htm for 
> examples of high 
> > quality sites. I thought that I had a couple of slightly more 
> > pertinent examples - these are more objectives to aim at 
> rather than 
> > targets that can be easily met - but I can't seem to find them.
> >
> > * About Me
> >
> > I would not state my correct age on a web site. Do you mean 
> to update 
> > it? You could say: "I am a child of the Thatcher era" (if you feel 
> > that you are); or "I was born in the same year that Adrian 
> Mole turned 
> > 15 and 1/4". Again there is no need to give quite as much detail 
> > (unless you want to, or find it helpful) at this stage: "... I was 
> > born with a condition in which the fluid in my eyes was 
> solid, but I 
> > don't notice it much. I spent most of my childhood at 
> Boarding School 
> > and later at College." - but it is up to you.
> >
> > You might want to capitalise Assistants, or even clarify by 
> saying ... 
> > the Actresses who played the parts of his assistants ..., and it is 
> > Somerset.
> >
> > distrobution => distribution, but we do say "distro" don't we?
> >
> > I hope that the Radio side of things goes well, and we must get you 
> > started with some Linux programming.
> >
> > I mean what I say when I claim that I do  not yet know of a Free 
> > Software tool chain that can do what you have done, and this needs 
> > looking into.
> >
> > Ben
> >
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