AOIT Web Design: October 2005

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Death Rays

Ever watch mythbusters? No need to comment.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Do you agree with this statement?

Instant messaging has become "the digital communication backbone of teens' daily lives," used by 75 percent of online teenagers, according to the Pew report. "Parents are really struggling with this," said David Walsh, the president of the National Institute on Media and the Family, a nonprofit educational organization in Minneapolis that began a program this year to help families reduce screen time and increase physical activity. "As the gadgets keep evolving, they keep consuming more and more of our kids' time. Our kids need a balanced diet of activity, and the problem is that it's getting out of balance. I don't think as a society we're dealing with it yet."

Should parents restrict the amount of time children use IM? Taken from here.

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Interesting resources for the web.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Download Firefox for homework

Download Firefox for homework and give it a try!

Your homework is to write an evaluation of Firefox (one paragraph). Also make sure you have read the previous articles and write reviews. Blogs will be graded at 11pm.

Tomorrow you will print out your Excel spreadsheets and your Access table.

Due at the end of class.

Design a table for your online business using Access

Create a table and populate the table with 15 items in the inventory from your business.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

A source for cheap labor?

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Expense Report

From the business inception through the first month of operation you are going to encounter various expenses. Using Excel you are to keep track of the expenses.

You are going to cover employees, advertising, product development, and other operating costs. I will assume you need a loan from a bank.

Create a spreadsheet with a column for each category listed above. For each category list a minimum of four expenses. Total each column. Use the SUM function to total all the columns.

Create a pie chart that lists the percentage of each category as parts of a whole.

On a second spreadsheet you will keep track of your first four sales.

Have a third spreadsheet which subtracts the costs from the money taken in. This will be your profits. Very rarely does a business achieve profitability so soon.

On the fourth spreadsheet (within the same file) you are to have a PREDICTION of your first year's sales and expenses. The level of detail is up to you but must be somewhat realistic for the bank to take seriously. Use a line graph to show the changes throughout the year in sales and expenses.

After creating the first fictional operating report you are to submit a request for a loan (I'm the bank officer) which will be considered along with your business summary.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

More sample business plans

http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html

Sorry. No extensions on the sample business plan.

Myspace purchased

http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/murdochs-myspace-knocked-off-the-web/2005/10/18/1129401245067.html

What's in a Business Plan

Check this out.

Business Design

You are to meet with your group members and choose ONE of the three ideas.

After picking the business idea you are to write a business plan which will be no less than 1000 words.

The business plan must address the following topics: marketing, operations, human resources which will include strategies and management responsibilities, technology. Also included in the 1000 words will be a brief mission statement. As this is a web design class, you are to spend considerable time describing the technology used to create your site.

The plan must include pictures and relevant hyperlinks. This will be printed out and turned in along with a copy placed on each group member's blog.

Due tomorrow.

Here are some sample plans.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Summarize this article

Read this article and summarize it on your blog.

What is this article about?

Read this article .

What is it about? What is KDE?

Thursday, October 13, 2005

How to Think Like A Computer Scientist

Read this. It will be important for the fundamentals of computer programming.

Scheme Practice

Read this. It will be important for the course.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Create an online business

You are to think of an online business and write a page explaining how it will make money.

Copying and pasting will result in a zero for the assignment.

One grade, due October 18th, 2005.

Check out my message board

Look at this.

Is this a good marketing idea?

Check this out, is this a good idea?

Check it out!

Mark's website

We are going to learn web design.

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