Hand-coding HTML is still hip says NY Times Design Director | Negative Approach - CNET Blogs

If you will read this article below, you will see that CMS is our there, and working full force.  They might be a few HTML coders out there on old and simple website projects, but HTML is out. In fact, HTML has been replaced by XHMTL years ago.  When I go to the book store, I see more books on XHTML then I do HTML.  My last posting on the subject of CMS and schools should be teaching this subject was not to be ugly.  Instead I was warning any student before the sign up on any web design program to check things out.

Just a moment ago I got an email from a school in my area, without me asking for it, on what they do teach with web design.  I looked over it, and all that they will be teaching is what I graduated with several years ago.  Nothing has changed.  Whoever graduates from this program will not get any job in web design.  Companies are looking for employees that are trained in today's technology.  What was taught years ago is too old.

 

What I have recently learned is that "updating" a website is the big thing.  It is hard enough to write an average website in HTML, XHTML, or any other coding by itself.  To update a website makes it harder by using coding alone.  That is why there is things like CMS to allow others to update their websites without any major fuss.  With web2 out and running, there are more and more personal websites that are being created.  Blogs are also showing ore then just text.  Everything is moving fast and if you do not keep up with how things are going, then you will be left behind.

 

With technology moving faster then we can keep up, what or who do we correctly design a website?  It is up to what you want to put on it.  Are you selling anything and what?  Who is your audience?  With more and more going online these days, it does not make it easier to design a website.

 

This point here in this posting and this blog is to show that things are moving at a very fast pace and schools needs to do all they can to teach the recent technology in the field of web design.  Teaching a class in HTML fundamentals is not going to do it.  Teaching just one class in JavaScript or Perl is not going to get them a in coding those languages.  School seriously needs to gather the right information and teach what they need to teach so that the students can get a job hot off the press.

Brandon

 

 

Hand-coding HTML is still hip says NY Times Design Director | Negative Approach - CNET Blogs

Evolving Blog » What is a Content Management System?

If CMS is the greatest thing since slice bread, then why are technical schools teaching it?  Where I live, I did a search of the schools in my area on Content Management Systems, and no one teaches it.  CMS is not something that has just popped out from the wood work and said boo.  It has been around for a while.  A lot has changed since CMS started.  I think it is more then the fast growing pace of technology.  School should be teaching this already.

Maybe the question needs to be ask, "Why use Content Management System?"  Check out this video, it could answer this question for you:

 

So many can use CMS.  The first time I heard about it was from talking to the web master of a church.  Each department or ministry can easily do a web page without knowing one single HTML code.

So how easy is it to use?  If you can use a word processor and be creative with it, then you can use CMS with no problem at all.  Please check out this video followed by 5 other parts:

 

Content Management System has everything to do with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  If SOA is something new to you, then please watch this video below:

 

When things are easier to use, then it does save a lot of money for a business or anyone.  That is why so many companies are using Content Management Systems (CMS).  If you see a school that is no teaching how to web design a website by the use of Dreamweaver or Front Page, then it is highly likely that school is not teaching any form of CMS.  What they do teach will not be up-to-date.  It will be less likely you will get a job in the computer field of the 21 Century just knowing how to use these web design software.

Brandon

 

Evolving Blog » What is a Content Management System?

Web 2 is Wonderful!!

 

This is just part of what Web2 can do.  Today's Internet is very wonderful indeed.  There are so many ways to share things online.  Who could think of things like Diigo, CoomentAnywhere, Del.icio.us, and others that can make the Internet great online.

I do not know all of what is out there, but I do know that more things are adding all the time.  The way we use to do things online is a thing of the past. 

 

Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth  ISBN: 0470227443 ISBN-13: 9780470227442

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This is a very interesting audio from Cisco.  It has shown that under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)  many companies are not truly global.  From the speaker in this audio message, these companies needs to be.

He states the importance of integrity with the consumers.  With all the globalizations that are going now online, the control that businesses had over their customers is not there anymore.  It is hard for anyone to get away with wrong doing with the communication age we are in.  Blogs, video, and other means of posting things online are faster then news on television.

In the 21st Century and beyond, there must be a bond of both business and its customers in order for the business to thrive.  Do to today's technologies, we do not communicate like we once did. We do it more and faster then ever.  Things like email are simply too old to match up with all the other means of communicating online.  I rather use RSS Feeds then getting newsletters.  Most of the time when one signs up for newsletters, they also receive junk mail.  I simply do not have the time to be bothered with SPAM.

When businesses finally go globalization fully, I guarantee things will change even faster online then it is now.  Globalization is very important if we use it responsibly and completely.

Brandon

 

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BBC NEWS | Health | Virtual tube ride 'paranoia hope'

I have stated before that someone needs to improve on the virtual world online.  It does not seem that this system is online, but it does show promise that something like this can be online.  Right now virtual worlds (VRs), like SecondLife, can only control the avatars by either a mouse/keyboard.  This has no real life like movements.

Another issue that I have stated before with VRs is it only runs on PCs.  To fully use a system that is on a video format, the PCs are not fully able to handle the load, or that everyone needs to get a new and up-to-date video card at least every year.  Most computer users know that it can be a problem doing so.  Can the ROM BIOS handle the new video card.  Can the motherboard able to handle the memory load.  That are countless other factors that are involved that can make adding any new hardware device to a PC.

I strongly believe that VR has a place in our wonderful technological world.  The issue is does every business, household, etc. able to keep up with having the up-to-date hardware needed?  Right now video games systems are having to be upgraded every year in order to play the most recent games.  Even though VRs are not a game system, they still use a great deal of graphics as games do if not more.

Brandon

 

BBC NEWS | Health | Virtual tube ride 'paranoia hope'