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Preparing to the WWW

What is AJAX?
AJAX = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

AJAX is not a new programming language, but to represent a broad group of web technologies that create fast and dynamic web pages:

• HTML / XHTML
• CSS
• JavaScript / DOM

AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and update parts of a web page - without reloading the whole page.

Examples of applications using AJAX: Google Maps, Gmail, Youtube, and Facebook tabs.

Make popular by Google Suggest on 2005.

What is OScommerce?

osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

It contains both a catalog front end and an administration tool back end which can be easily installed and configured over a web-based installation procedure.

8 years of operation.

Studies have shown that you can expect an increase in business of up to 250% by accepting credit card payments on your web site.

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization or SEO is the process of making your website search engine friendly and getting higher ranking so as to increase the volume and quality of visitors to your website.

"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

Research has shown that around 89 percent of internet users use search engines and directories to look for products, services and information. There is no advantage in having a web site if no one is able to find it.

Optimizing:

1. Create unique, accurate page titles

2. Make use of the "description" meta tag

3. Make your site easier to navigate

4. Improve the structure of your URLs

5. Offer quality content and services

6. Write better anchor text

7. Use heading tags appropriately

8. Optimize your use of images

Question: Google started to put in new UI feature which is detecting nearest location. How can a company know where they rank at that particular area?

'Search engine marketing' is a much broader term that refers to everything that can be done to utilize the technology of search engines, blog directories and other social networking systems with the goal of promoting a web site and increasing its traffic, its "stickiness," and, in the case of sites that promote a business - increase profits.
SEO (search engine optimisation) is in fact just the first phase of SEM (search engine marketing).

What is CMS?

CMS or a 'Content Management System' quite literally allows you to control and manage the content within your web site - without technical training. Using this uncomplicated system you can very easily add, delete images and edit text in your web site on the fly. You can also have an unlimited number of pages and a full site-search engine.

CMS reduces the time required to publish, allowing you to get your content on-line faster. This is a very important issue for any professional web site.

Type of CMS:
http://www.a3webtech.com/index.php/how-cms-works.html

What is Internet Marketing?

Internet marketing, also referred to as i-marketing, web-marketing, online-marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet.

The Internet has brought media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium. Internet marketing is sometimes considered to have a broader scope because it not only refers to the Internet, e-mail, and wireless media, but it includes management of digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems.

Internet marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including: design, development, advertising, and sales.

Preparing to play with my new toy Minolta

Check if the camera is working well:
Check the battery compartment, and clean it replacing the battery. Then check the light meter readings (manual mode easier as you can adjust both shutter speed and aperture and see the changes in the viewfinder), and compare the readings with another camera or light meter (should be within 1/2 f-stop). Then check the aperture-priority and automatic modes, that they also adjust to changes in the light/scene.

What is Center-weighted average metering?
In this system, the meter concentrates between 60 to 80 percent of the sensitivity towards the central part of the viewfinder. The balance is then "feathered" out towards the edges. Some cameras will allow the user to adjust the weight/balance of the central portion to the peripheral one. One advantage of this method is that it is less influenced by small areas that vary greatly in brightness at the edges of the viewfinder; as many subjects are in the central part of the frame, consistent results can be obtained.

What is Aperture Priority (A)?
aperture priority mode automatically sets the corresponding shutter speed when you program the aperture. Aperture priority is useful when taking portraits, close-ups, and landscape shots. For creative effects, you can set exposure plus or minus 2EV in half-stop increments.

How to do Multi Exposure?
1) Without pressing the rewind release, turn the rewind crank until you
feel some resistance. This takes up slack in the casette.

2) Press the rewind release.

3) With your finger on the rewind crank to keep it from moving, stroke the
film advance lever as normal.

This will keep the double exposure pretty much in register - if you don't
take up slack and hold the crank it still works but the frames may no
longer overlap as well. Don't forget to decrease exposure for each shot,
since the two exposures will add. For a simple double exposure, try -1
stop exposure compensation.

Back-light:
When I have back lighting I frequently tilt the camera down, press the exposure lock and then tilt up and shoot.

Very bright object:
If I am shooting a very bright subject I will use the exposure compensation dial to increase exposure.

Film sample

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Kodak Ektachrome 100 Slide


Fuji Sensia 200 Expired


Fuji Provia Slide 100


Fuji Velvia 100 Slide Expired

The Last Lecture

Me & Randy won the parent lottery.

Brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

The park is open until 8 p.m.