Maroochydore IT section has moved to the Mooloolooba campus. We have a brand new building with brand new equipment, and of course teething problems, but once everything is sorted out it will be great.
Maroochydore ??
A few people have asked where the heck is Maroochydore? It is located on The Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland, Australia. To find out more have a look at The Sunshine Coast tourist information web page Oh by the way, Mooloolooba is just a few miles up the coast from Maroochydore.
Site Revamp
Actually, many of you will have never seen my old site, as it was only intended for students undertaking my multimedia classes at Maroochydore TAFE. However some of my students have persuaded me to make this available more widely.
I think that their logic is "Why should we be the only ones to suffer?
So here it is. I hope you enjoy your visit
Alan
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27 July, 2010
Once again I have moved to a different development tool. For ages I have been wanting to update my site to use CSS instead of tables for layout. I actually did the home page months ago using Expression. It took ages and I wasn't getting a grasp of how the CSS worked
I played around with a few HTML editors and I think I have settled for NetBeans. I created a new stylesheet for the site and a basic template page. I decided to use the news page to try them out and this is the result
I have also modified the colours slightly. Somehow I managed to get the page to be W3C compatible, it was very pleasing when the page validated. I must say that I certainly do not miss all of those table tags. I think that it was only dealing with all of the nested tables that was forcing me to stay with a wysywig editor
I am finding it very easy to add content to the page with a HTML editor, (now that I have the stylesheet worked out. The reason I am using NetBeans is that it appears to have the best auto complete of all the editors that I have tried. And of course it is free
July 11, 2010
Have just transferred the site from Dreamweaver to Expression Web. This is just a test to see if synchronisation works ok. I have never been happy with Dreamweaver since Adobe got their hands on it. If this works as I think it will, I will be able to get rid of Dreamweaver from my hard drive
May 30, 2010
I upgraded to the latest Xara Design Pro 6 the other day and have been playing with some of the new features, it is a terrific program. Anyway there is a new image in the Xara
Gallery
September 14, 2008
A few days back I bought a copy of Painter X. After a few days of exploring the new features I decided to create a new image with it. The result can be seen in the Painter Gallery
September 6, 2008
I have recently been playing around with creating some new strokes in Expression. I drew a building using these new strokes a while back and I have finally got around to uploading it to the Expression
Gallery
August 23, 2008
Here is an interesting site, where the owner creates clever animations from photographs
June 20, 2008
Tomorrow is World Wide SketchCrawl #19. Get more details here on the the sketchcrawl website
December 23, 2007
I have just been doing a bit of 3D modelling and have just added 3 new images to the Blender 3D Gallery
