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Report for November meeting 2008
While waiting for people to arrive we belatedly updated AVG to version 8. This brought up many Adware alarms when running Internet Explorer, so we installed Spybot S&D and ran it. Much later ... we deleted about 150 Adware references. KEEP YOUR PROTECTION UPDATED
John had brought in his setup of Xampp & Joomla to show us, Steve said he had installed this and Peter was looking at it to run Perl (great minds think alike). We copied John's setup to the SIG machine, but later decided that a fresh installation would be better. We tried to set up a local Joomla site but were foiled by our inability to access the MySQL database, maybe a user/password problem ? (we need more great minds). Steve said he had successfully set one up on his machine, but couldn't remember this problem. Steve, Peter & John will try again before next meeting.
Report for Meeting October 18th 2008
We started with a presentation of KompoZer by Peter Collard. Many thanks to Peter.
We updated the MWRPA site with recent newsletters and a brochure for a new community bus service to the shopping centres etc.
We updated Adobe Reader and looked at enlarging the print capabilities of Reader to enlarge the type.
Next meeting is 16th November. See you there.
Robert
Report for Meeting September 2008
A good role-up this month. Bob showed us Joomla at a test site and showed some on line editing. We began to copy text off my web site but didn’t get far.
After tea break we reviewed making forms for Warren. Then looked at how to insert a guest book using NetObjects component using the tutorial on the NetObjects web site.
Next month we will look further into adding a guest book and forms. The next meeting is Saturday 18th October. 2pm see you there.
Robert
Report for meeting August 2008
There was no July meeting this year due to the illustrious Pope and the youth day business. Steve South reported that the traffic was very light and very few people were in the city. We could have had the meeting.
The attendance this month was a bit light. We welcomed Elaine to our meeting.
We looked at Joomla web site. We realised that we needed Bob to tell us what it is all about. Where were you Bob? it took us ages to set the computer up!
Steve showed us how to log into the forum. If anyone is having any trouble loging on, re-register.
Next month meeting on the 20 September we hope to have Bob available to show us Joomla. Also we will look to update my new website and the MWRPA site.
See you there
Robert
Report for meeting of June 21st 2008
Peter Collard wrote a report about freeware sources. Peter did not use Netobjects and we had some trouble? We used the Fusion method - great! It is a great report many thanks to Peter. It is now on our Links page. This is great information for PC Users.
Our next meeting will be July 19th. Where Peter will give us a rundown on Kompozer, a free web design program.
See you there Robert
Report for meeting May 17th
We discussed web security and the benefits of using the PCUser Group moderated Forum rather than an open blog for communication between sig members. We suggest all members register to use the Forum.
We discussed web hosting because our current site is going to be closed shortly.
Consequently we began redesigning a new Fotopage Design site. We will continue at our next meeting on Saturday 21st June.
See you there.
Regards Robert
Report for meeting March 2008
Seven members attended the meeting. James Gaudry sent his apologies. Christina sent her apologies.
When we arrived today we found our meeting room had been let to someone else. The whole floor was unavailable. We were very impressed by the notification we received. We subsequently held our meeting in the corridor of the third floor.
We then spent a lot of time taking out a soft bullet in the text in the MWRPA site. A fun exercise.
The new projector is extremely good, we were very impressed.
The Netobjects Fusion Essentials is available for free download here:
http://www.netobjects.com/html/essentials_download.html
The next meeting is on Saturday April 19th.
See you there
Robert
Report meeting February 2008
Once again we had a good roll up.
Just for a change this meeting we had a look at my video of a wild life trip to Sabah Borneo. Next meeting the Caribbean. We also looked at how to set up cascading style sheets.
Also we will look to get a form working for the MWRPA site.
The next meeting is 15th March.
See you there.
Regards
Robert
Report for meeting January 2008
Our usual team arrived this month where we continued looking at uploading the MWRPA site. After much anguish and discussion we found our problems were caused by the way FTP Commander operates. We also had problems using NOF FTP so we installed the free Core FTP program. This seemed to have a better user interface. We were then able to get everything working as it should.
We also set up Core FTP to upload our own sig website.
Next meeting is Saturday February 16th 2008.
At the next meeting we will update the MWRPA site after user feedback.
See you there.
Robert
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