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alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
Glad you are back in this space helping others.

I will play with sitebuilder as advised. I love the idea of getting ones feet wet, so to speak, because you learn so much from your mistakes. In fact, I would say more so, because of all the problems you have to solve. And then you learn something more. Then eventually you've cracked the nut, and its time to move on to the next problem.

With regard to your point that you feel that you are going
into too much detail. I personally think that great teachers start with the basics, and are willing to answer any questions. I am a beginner, I do like to know all the details,and I think that it is essential.

Looking forward to the class on Wednesday.

Thanking you again.

Alan

alan wood

Hi Modelhead,
I will be sitting at my desk around 6pm awaiting the first lesson.

Thank you for that.

Alan

Nick W

Bruce, thanks for sharing your expertise on this. I am watching with interest. I may not be quite ready to sit down with the credit card, but I'm watching and learning.

alan wood

Hi Guys,
I'm sitting comforably
cheers
Alan.

alan wood

okay

alan wood

Okay Bruce
I signed up and the page that you mentioned comes on screen, however it then does not allow me to take control, but loads the wizard automatically, and prevents me from going to step 2 in your tutorial.
alan

alan wood

Bruce
This is what I am seeing when it loads.

Top menu
site page-change layout (something hidden) save preview publish

box comes up
'Welcome and lets get ready to build
Asks me to select a category- i do that
Asks me about the business I do that
Press next button. And nothing happens.

I'll try it again
Alan

alan wood

Bruce,
The wizard didnt take control this time.
working on the rest of the lesson.
Alan

alan wood

Bruce
Im up to here. I have my sub-directory named sketchp

Lesson
So now you have a URL (universal resourse locator) that looks something like this http://www.ibuildmodels.com/sketchup/

I Cannot see my URL
htttp://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com/sketchup/

so the next part I cannot complete yet.
Paste it into your browser location field, hit enter and see what happens.

The browser should now display this……(without the resident files of course)

If you will give me 2 minutes I try again
Alan

rhankc

Back to web site 101 for a second please.
Is yahoo secure about protecting users info? I ask because they want 75 cents a month to protect your info, like your name address, phone etc. According to the WHOIS directory, which is open for all, how can they keep it confidential if you pay?

The value of higher education: gives you the ability to yell...without raising your voice.

alan wood

Bruce
Tried messenger, having problems with that, so I'm still happy
posting here.
Alan

alan wood

Nice one Bruce,
let me try that
Alan

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alan wood

Bruce,
I'm sorted now. For other peoples benifit what was I doing wrong?

Two things

I obviously didnt type in the full details which are.
http://My web page details.com/sketchup

2 I have two toolsbars now. Google and Yahoo.
When I typed in the correct details in the Yahoo search and
pressed enter, it didnt find anything.
When I repeated the exercise with Google it worked and I found
the root directory.

What I would like to do now please is have 5 minutes to make a brew.
I would then like to repeat the whole exercise again, make my own notes, so I can repeat the exercise unaided.

Thanking you.

speak soon

Alan.

alan wood

Hi Bruce,
You said
*[i]Alan...I am a bit confused as to why you would use a "search" text box.

Your browser has an "Address" text box...that is where you put the url...you don't need to search for it you have it.*[/i]

Reply.
Thats what happens when you're a complete beginner at this. I think it great that I'm making these mistakes, learning from it, and other beginners will benifit.

Thanking you.

Alan.
PS back to repeat the process and make notes.

Krisidious

mistakes are how I learned most of what I know about websites...

look at my website name... if you read my post about choosing a domain, you saw that I suggest the " - " inbetween words so that google will see the word seperation... but in my aboveallhouseplans.com name... you can see... mistakage, and I've had the domain too long to change it...

that's how you leanr...

Krisidious

if I had it to do over again,

I would make it above-all-house-plans.com

alan wood

Bruce
Well another lesson learnt.
I said that I wanted to make my own notes. No need to do that.

When you visit the link provided by Bruce to his lesson I did this
1 I opened up a word document.
2 I copied all of the lesson
3 Pasted it into my word document
named it web page building by Bruce and I dont have to make my own notes. Now I know this is damn obvious to some who have been doing this for years but not, to the beginner.

Thanking you Bruce.

Alan

dylan

Excellent tutorial Bruce, worked seamlessly!
It's nice to have some webspace to upload to and a very easy method of doing it.

Looking forward to the next step.

alan wood

Bruce
After lesson 1, the test.
Submit an image on this forum. Okay
This shot was taken at Eaton Hall, Chester. Left to right
The Duke of Westminster PR, my better half Barbara, and the head forester.

Submit a model or document. I choose a model.
The sketchup image is of a jewellers saw that I use when removing the waste between the pins of dovetails when I make them by hand.
http://www.hand-cut-dovetails.com/sketchup/jewellerssaw004.skp

I hope this works.

If it does its thanks to Bruce, and thanks to Coen for this great facility.

fingers crossed.

Alan

alan wood

Bruce,
Thankyou that teach was brilliant.
Alan.

PS. I had to do a few workarounds on the Yahoo site. I've added to Bruces lesson notes, and will post a link to explain the problems I experienced and how I solved them.