Webinars & building a club website
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Webinars & building a club website Our club is just starting with bivio, and I have 2 general questions: 1) I keep seeing webinars I'd like to join but they're always at the wrong time for me (like this Sunday when our first grandchild is visiting!). Are webinars ever posted where one can pick them up later? 2) This week I'll attempt to build a website for our club (using iWeb, an Apple Macintosh program). I have a book to lead me, but wondered if anyone else had done a website (via iWeb or otherwise). If so, care to share any tips? Thanks, Andy Hinds, Treas. Grey Rock Invest Club Fort Collins, Colorado Hi Andy,
Welcome aboard. I'm not an Apple user, nor am I familiar with iWeb, but there's a very simple premise for the homepage on a bivio site.
Each club has a user ID. So for example, my club's is 'crowriver'. When someone chooses the path 'www.bivio.com/userID' the server automatically knows to direct it to a file on your Files page called 'index.html'. This file cannot be buried inside a folder. It must be upload to the root of the Files page.
So if you follow the path www.bivio.com/crowriver, you will be automatically directed to that file. Once you get to our website, if you click on Communications|Files, you will see the 'index.html' file sitting in the main list.
I can't tell you how to create your homepage in iWeb, but I can help you get it uploaded. Just let me know if you have any questions.
Lynn Ostrem, Minneapolis
Crow River Investment Club
Hi Andy, We love to have you join us for our webinars but of course there is no single time that will work for everyone. We are open to requests, so if you have a day of the week and time that would work best for you, let us know. The more input we get like that, the better we can plan a schedule that suits everyone. We always try and offer the live webinars on at least 2 different dates and times. We will be doing the Tax and Audit webinars at least 3 different times. We also usually post the webinars we give in the Club Café files area. Go to www.bivio.com/club_cafe and select Files from the menu at the top of the page. You'll see a folder called Presentations. If you open it, you'll see the presentations we've done this past year. Good luck with building a website for your club. As Lynn mentioned, the first things you need to know are to name the homepage file index.html, to post it in the top level of your club Files area and to mark it as a public page. If you are totally new to making websites, one of the early learning experiences we all have is dealing with the fact that on web pages, things will move around depending on people's screen display settings. To avoid that, it is good to set up an invisible table (sometimes called a layout table) and put different parts of your page into the different cells of the table. I’m not familiar with the iweb program, it may set things up like this for you automatically. I'd suggest you try something and ask questions as you go along. Feel free to ask them here. There are probably others who are interested in making a web page also and would like to learn from your experiences. Laurie Frederiksen Andy, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you dump iWeb and look at creating a blog instead. Blogs are now being used by a ton of small and medium sized business in place of a website--including tons of tech companies. Simply put, they take about 3 minutes to set up, and because it uses a web based program it can be updated from any computer, even your blackberry or ipod. If you share your password, your fellow investment club people can also update your blog, and it is shockingly easy to update. I did a quick google search and pulled up two other investment clubs that have use blogspot (the most popular blogging site) to create investment club blogs:
To begin, just go to the website below and hit 'create a blog'. It actually is that easy--and it is totally free Ellen On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Andrew W. Hinds wrote:
Andy, As an aside, with a blog, you wont have to worry about index, tables, home pages....you can go right to focusing on content! Ellen Begin forwarded message:
Thanks, Ellen, for the suggestions, and sorry I didn't respond earlier. I still think we want a very simple front page rather than a blog, at least for now. Perhaps in the future we'll explore that, but for now I guess we'll try for a simple website. Anyway, thanks again; it's always nice to get many points of view. Andy Hinds Ellen Shershow wrote: > Andy,I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you dump iWeb and look at creating a blog instead. Blogs are now being used by a ton of small and medium sized business in place of a website--including tons of tech companies. Simply put, they take about 3 minutes to set up, and because it uses a web based program it can be updated from any computer, even your blackberry or ipod. If you share your password, your fellow investment club people can also update your blog, and it is shockingly easy to update. I did a quick google search and pulled up two other investment clubs that have use blogspot (the most popular blogging site) to create investment club blogs:http://amhersticlub.blogspot.com/http://mcgillinvestmentclub.blogspot.com/To begin, just go to the website below and hit 'create a blog'. It actually is that easy--and it is totally freehttps://www.blogger.com/startEllen > Ellen Shershow Peña Photographywww.ellenswebsite.com415.690.0278 > > On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Andrew W. Hinds wrote:Our club is just starting with bivio, and I have 2 generalquestions:1) I keep seeing webinars I'd like to join but they'realways at the wrong time for me (like this Sunday when ourfirst grandchild is visiting!). Are webinars ever postedwhere one can pick them up later?2) This week I'll attempt to build a website for our club(using iWeb, an Apple Macintosh program). I have a book tolead me, but wondered if anyone else had done a website (viaiWeb or otherwise). If so, care to share any tips?Thanks,Andy Hinds, Treas.Grey Rock Invest ClubFort Collins, Colorado |
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