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Open Day 21 September

30/08/2013 22:50
Chiselworks have been serving the woodworking community for 30 years - against all odds!   Please join us for our Aniversary celebrations and Open Day on 21 September, 10am to 6pm.   Enjoy Demonstrations, Craft stalls, Raffle with Prize Draw, and more!

Renovation work

30/08/2013 17:53

Upside down

24/08/2013 21:53
This - being a blog - may seem a bit "upside down".  By this I mean: earliest on the bottom and latest top.
Two items spring to mind: I would choose a template with a different lay-out.  The current one does not allow for much text above the "fold" - that section which the user can see without scrolling downwards. I would spend more time on creating a consistant taxonomy, for facets of the...

Webnode templates

10/08/2013 19:50
Having worked through the course materials I had high expectations for the site I would create.  I designed a shallow hierarchical  structure to organise my content, conventional wireframes for page layouts, with main menu at the top and local sub-menus on the left, thought...
Construction tools In my experience it was easy to use Webnode's software to construct a basic website, add pages and subpages, change the template, to preview and to publish content at the push of a button I appreciated how straight forwardly I could upload files, such as documents, images and...
I had planned for Chiselworks' website to be easily navigated and content found where the user will expect it.  Using Webnode assists in this: It locates some page functions in commonly expected places. For instance the logo and link to the home page is placed in the upper left, and the...
As a budding information professional I am uncomfortable with a task that demands of me to produce and publish a whole raft of false information.  I asked myself how can the website be "authoritative", as stipulated by the assignment guidance, yet purport to represent an organisation that does...

The overall project

04/07/2013 22:34
This is the first website I have constructed.  I did not really know what to expect.  The module and associated readings appeared to make sense, until I embarked on the practical work.  Challenges arose from two main areas: 1    The website represents a fictional...
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