[Nfb-web] : Web Design as a Career

Thu Mar 5 22:14:12 UTC 2009

Good afternoon everyone,

    Joe's a great student. I had the pleasure of training him several months 
ago. One idea would be a podcast to instruct students in the basics of Web 
design.I've had multiple individuals urge me to start a Web Design Podcast. 
Another would be via online conference rooms such as those operated by 
Talking Communities, EASI, and similar services. The Youth SLAM isn't the 
only venue through which the federation could offer introductory and later 
on advanced Web design training. Others have done it with a pretty good 
degree of success. Our challenge would be to see what we can do to build on 
what they have done and take it to the next level. This will be an exciting 
endeavor in the coming year.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Orozco" <JOrozco at ysa.org>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Web Design as a Career

Never mind talking about it.  There is clearly a collection of good
talent here.  Get a web site going and start teaching.  I'll be one of
your first students.  If something formal is organized with the Jernigan
Institute later, great, but in the meantime, don't let time rob us of a
learning opportunity.

Joe Orozco, Associate Grants Manager
Youth Service America
1101 15th Street NW
Suite 200
Washington D.C. 20005
Phone: 202-296-2992 Ext. 122
E-Mail: jorozco at ysa.org
www.ysa.org
-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:53 AM
To: NFB Webmaster's List
Subject: [Nfb-web] Web Design as a Career

Good morning everyone,

    Following on with Arnold's comments this is something I've been
thinking
about for a while. Web Site Design and Management falls under Technology
in
the STEM acronym we often hear discussed in conversations concerning our

science initiative. We have a Youth SLAM coming up this summer; a
wonderful
opportunity to introduce blind youngsters to the World of Web Site
planning,
design, construction, and management. Will a Web Design Track be a part
of
this year's Youth SLAM Program? If you asked me it should be! Given all
of
us who successfully build and manage Web sites for our affiliates and
other
entities and the all-ready rich amount of resources available to assist
blind Web developers we should be doing more to inspire more blind youth
to
consider Web Development as a career.

    Gary Wunder and I have had some correspondence concerning this
matter. I
believe one of the biggest issues to be resolved is how best to do it. I

suggested to him that a portion of this year's Webmasters Workshop be
devoted to developing strategies as to how to inspire more blind people
to
seriously consider becoming Web developers.

 In discussing building Web sites for some of our affiliates the
question
has been asked, "Whose going to fill your shoes" when you leave this
World.
Although I enjoy creating and servicing affiliate Web sites I recognize
that
I'm not going to live forever. This and the all ready significant number
of
blind Web professionals has lead me to believe that this is a career
more
blind individuals should give serious consideration and that we as a
group
should play a part in making that happen.

I've given this matter some thought and have casually tried out some
ideas
for teaching particular concepts to other blind people. The NFB Jernigan

Institute doesn't run from a challenge. I'm hoping we can partner with
them
to develop new and innovative ways of instructing blind persons in Web
site
design and maintenance to ensure that our Web resources will continue to

grow and be cared for and to create new Web entities if and when they're

needed. I'll look forward to reading the feedback.

Peter Donahue

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arnold Bailey" <arnoldbail at gmail.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] NFB-WEB Sandbox

Mike.

Thanks to Everett and yourself for the comments.

My interest in Drupal is twofold.

   1. Curiosity and to expand my knowledge.
   2. I have this vision of creating a platform to draw blind and
visually
   impaired students into investigating programming as a career. It
would be
   great if it was at a national level; but, a chapter level is ok. With
70%
   unemployment in our community, there is obviously a great need. I
must
   admit, though, that, other than Peter D,, I've found zero support.
But, I
   can't give up the vision without feeling I've let down a lot of kids.
The
   Drupal development platform and learning support activities that it
   requires, I think, is a great learning mechanism.

Arnold

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Hansen <mhansen4 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Arnold,
>
> Everett is correct. My thought on the matter would be how much do you
> want the ISP to take care of versus how much are you the Admin willing
> to take care of?
>
> Mike
> ---
> Mike Hansen
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:20 AM, E.J. Zufelt <everett at zufelt.ca> wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > If the ISP supports mysQL and PHP it takes about 20 minutes to
install
> > Drupal for a hosting account.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Everett
> >
> >
> > On 4-Mar-09, at 8:37 AM, Arnold Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> Mike,
> >>
> >> Very nice work. I did notice that in firefox the navigation side
bar is
> >> located into the center of the webmasters sandbox page. In IE it's
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> One question I have. Is there any thoughts given to affiliate and
> chapters
> >> usage of drupal? It seems like it would make sense for the
affiliate
> >> and
> >> chapters to pull a drupal theme and NFB applications and use them
on
> their
> >> site, The problem is that drupal is not usually found on most ISPs.
I
> >> would
> >> think that a single ISP that has drupal support would be cost
> effectively
> >> justified.
> >>
> >> Arnold
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Hansen
<mhansen4 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Sandbox is now up and running on our website. If you want to
play
> >>> around with a drupal install and not have to worry about breaking
> >>> something there is one there for you. If you want to experiment
with
> >>> other things just create a sub directory off of the root and dorp
in
> >>> your code. Complete login information is posted on our website.
> >>>
> >>> Let me know if you have questions.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>> ---
> >>> Mike Hansen
> >>>
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