ABCO Technology: March 2011

Saturday, March 12, 2011

How to get started with your own graphic and Web Design business from ABCO Technology

Often students at ABCO Technology enrolled in the CIW Program wonder how to start your own business, and abvoe all how to get started. I thought occassionally, it would be a great idea to give some tips and pointers about getting started with your own web design / graphic design business. Now before we get into some good tips, I'd like to inform everone that the training that you receive in classroom is the key to your success. As students know that all programs at ABCO Technology CIW Training are designed to give students the hands-on approach. Now, it also then becomes the responsibility of the student to spend some time at home, and complete the classwork and homework asssigned to the student. This would be the first step in preparing yourself to become a professional.

Initially, after you have developed the skills, there are a few preparation steps that you will have to do in order to further your business.

Create a Nifty Name for your business
Register your business as sole propeitership / corporation
Design and Create your business cards
Design and Develop your own website
Create a portfolio to showcase to your clients
Create email newsletters to be sent to your clients
Blog and social network your site

The afore-mentioned are pre-tasks before you start your own business. In the weeks to come, I'm going to write some short descriptions about each of these tasks in more detail. If you have any questions leave me a comment or visit the abco technology website

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

How to display date and year on a web page using JavaScript - Project level Basic"

Last week, I had requested a project for students to display the date using the date object in JavaScript, on an order details page. Here is the solution to the project:

In the .js file or the head script stream, enter the following code-

1> orddate = new Date();
2> dispdate = orddate.getMonth() + 1 + "-" + orddate.getDate() + "-" + orddate.getYear();

Further in the body stream of the html file the date can be displayed using the DOM innerHTML =+ dispdate or using the document.write method.

Addition: With the document.write method a table is being created displaying the order date. This can be in the init function of the js file. The code is as follows

document.write('<html><body><table align="top" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="7">');
document.write('<tr><td><font color="#ffffff" size="4" face="verdana">' + "The Order Date is: " + dispdate + '</font></td></tr>');
document.write('<tr><td><font color="#ffffff" size="4" face="verdana">' + "The Delivery Date is 3 days from the order date" + '</font></td></tr>');
document.write('</table></body></html>');

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How to Create a Dynamic Document in JavaScript

This is a new project for all the students in the JavaScript Class:

Your company has decided to display images related to the links available on the website's home page. You want to draw customer's attention to the links by adding images with visual effects.

Hint: Create a rollover effect for the image using onMouseOver and onMouseOut methods from the DOM

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

PHP Resources

This is for students who have completed the PHP Class. Others can wait to avail these resources after class, when they can be better appreciated and useful.

1) For php functions www.php.net/download-docs.php
2) PHP Builder - www.phpbuilder.com
3) PHP Resource index - http://php.resourceindex.com

The third one is the best because it has several code snippets, faq and documentation.

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