grampa dan
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I was dragged kicking and screaming into the computer age. I thought they were cool but the last thing I thought I needed was a computer. Bak in the early 90's I witnessed my kids working on computers often. And Janis did our books on our company computer too. The odd time I pecked out a letter, which Janis needed to edit of course as my typing wasn't the greatest to say the least. Why would I need a computer? There was no way to be creative on one.
Then they invented the digital drawing pad. This newfangled tool was pretty cool. It was, at first, a bit awkward to look at the screen and draw with my hand far away, but the pen did what I needed. It was 1998 and computers were finally up to my speed and had an interface that allowed me to interact. It was pretty brutal at first but I slugged through it with brute force of will. I've spent countless hours in front of them since then with some pretty amazing results. Computers revolutionized the way I did my drawing and presentations. It was still done by hand but the ink was virtual. Modifications and changes were suddenly easy without starting over. It was a marvelous thing!
Way back then I started designing our websites, although I then handed those designs to someone who could handle the necessary coding. It worked but changes were cumbersome, not instant, and costly. With coming ebooks, frequent workshops and constant new work, it's time to look at a new model. Like the digital pen of the last decade it is now possible to have someone as computer illiterate as me design and post a website. Simply amazing!
I've started in on the design of a new website which will become our .com space (we currently have our site posted as a .ca site. This will eventually become a pass through to the new site.
For now I'm sticking with a tweaked relatively stock template. All the pages look somewhat like a blog format right now and I'll tweak that over time... all possible in real time in this format.
You don't ned to buy any programs, don't have to learn any difficult coding. It's drag and drop with the changes appearing in real time on any platform or browser. And if I can do it I believe anybody can.
There is still a place for web designers for sure. But with the constant changes I want to make to our website on an ongoing basis this seems to work pretty well for me so far.
It's very affordable in my opinion and a great alternative to those who can't afford to have someone else do their site.
http://imaginationcorporation.squarespace.com
Their site is at www.squarespace.com
Right now I'm using their domain but I will (easily) customize it to ours soon. This transition makes their domain invisible even though the site continues to be hosted there.
Over the next weeks and months I'll be adding to and endlessly tweaking this website, trying my best to make it look like what I have in my head. It's going to be interesting I'm sure.
-grampa dan
Then they invented the digital drawing pad. This newfangled tool was pretty cool. It was, at first, a bit awkward to look at the screen and draw with my hand far away, but the pen did what I needed. It was 1998 and computers were finally up to my speed and had an interface that allowed me to interact. It was pretty brutal at first but I slugged through it with brute force of will. I've spent countless hours in front of them since then with some pretty amazing results. Computers revolutionized the way I did my drawing and presentations. It was still done by hand but the ink was virtual. Modifications and changes were suddenly easy without starting over. It was a marvelous thing!
Way back then I started designing our websites, although I then handed those designs to someone who could handle the necessary coding. It worked but changes were cumbersome, not instant, and costly. With coming ebooks, frequent workshops and constant new work, it's time to look at a new model. Like the digital pen of the last decade it is now possible to have someone as computer illiterate as me design and post a website. Simply amazing!
I've started in on the design of a new website which will become our .com space (we currently have our site posted as a .ca site. This will eventually become a pass through to the new site.
For now I'm sticking with a tweaked relatively stock template. All the pages look somewhat like a blog format right now and I'll tweak that over time... all possible in real time in this format.
You don't ned to buy any programs, don't have to learn any difficult coding. It's drag and drop with the changes appearing in real time on any platform or browser. And if I can do it I believe anybody can.
There is still a place for web designers for sure. But with the constant changes I want to make to our website on an ongoing basis this seems to work pretty well for me so far.
It's very affordable in my opinion and a great alternative to those who can't afford to have someone else do their site.
http://imaginationcorporation.squarespace.com
Their site is at www.squarespace.com
Right now I'm using their domain but I will (easily) customize it to ours soon. This transition makes their domain invisible even though the site continues to be hosted there.
Over the next weeks and months I'll be adding to and endlessly tweaking this website, trying my best to make it look like what I have in my head. It's going to be interesting I'm sure.
-grampa dan
