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10 questions to assertain whether someone has a basic working knowledge of the web?
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free spirit
more tea vicar?
how would you go about reducing a print quality image to an image suitable for publication / use on the web?
would be an absolute must I'd have thought.
would be an absolute must I'd have thought.
ChrisFilter
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free spirit
more tea vicar?
can you tell what one of my pet gripes is?Good call
ruffneck23
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whats an a record , cgi-bin ?
how would you be able to tell if an internet site is working through cmd prompt ?
whats the difference between intranet / internet ?
what is the extension for a perl script ?
Funny thing is Chris 6 months after I had that interview at your old work place , I reckon I could actually pass thest test...
would it be worth re-applying ?
how would you be able to tell if an internet site is working through cmd prompt ?
whats the difference between intranet / internet ?
what is the extension for a perl script ?
Funny thing is Chris 6 months after I had that interview at your old work place , I reckon I could actually pass thest test...
would it be worth re-applying ?
ExtraRefined
Better than you at everything you love
I like to inflate my ego by making them suffer.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
You take your 3008 x 2000 image, and place it inside the following HTML:
<img src="image.jpg" width="450" height="300">
Piers Gibbon
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well, not strictly relevant to the job but...
"When you get sent an email with a very scary header like Gang Initiation Warning Please Forward to Every Woman You Know!!?!..do you a) forward it to every woman you know...or b) look it up on snopes.com "
"When you get sent an email with a very scary header like Gang Initiation Warning Please Forward to Every Woman You Know!!?!..do you a) forward it to every woman you know...or b) look it up on snopes.com "
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
i teach webdesign and i don't know what twitter is
and what do you mean by listing in reference to SEO and PPC ?
ChrisFilter
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Certainly. They're good people, they'd amire it.
Shippou-Sensei
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jesus if the questions on this thread are basic web knowledge than most of my webdesign students are fucked
ChrisFilter
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see: ranking. seo and ppc listing is where you'd appear on paid and natural search listings.
I'm often shocked by the amount of web designers who don't have a fucking clue about either. Fair enough to be ignorant of PPC, but I've had to teach SEO to designers and developers before. Unforgivable IMHO.
ChrisFilter
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Comes as no surprise.... bunch of snake oil salespeople, on the whole.
Knowing a bit of CSS and Dreamweaver does not a web designer make.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
wergh this is why it gets confusing
SEO is a broad area and PPC/CPC is one particular method of pricing online advertising it's a bit confusing to stick those acronims in when asking to differentiate between paid-for and "organic" results on a search engine
Shippou-Sensei
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that certainly doesn't make a web design professional
i somewhat equate my students to being the web equivalent of that mate you get in to put a wall up down the end of your garden rather than the one you get in to put up your house
web designer is a broad spectrum
ChrisFilter
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Perhaps, but this is a job interview.
SEO isn't that broad an area. It should be every developer/designer's first concern. If a page doesn't rank well, then what's the point? Google rules, and unless you play by it's rules, then you might as well not bother. Especially for commercial sites.
ChrisFilter
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Perhaps, but there are a few golden rules that are criminally underlooked.
If you want to help your students, make them read 'Get to the top on Google' as a bare minimum: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Top-Google-Techniques-There/dp/1857885023
(Note how you search for 'get to the top on google' and that listing appears first...)
Shippou-Sensei
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i was just pointing out that it wasn't basic web knowledge
some people don't really care about the ranking of their site... indeed most of the sites i have worked on are primarily used internally who cares how your page ranks if it's only ever going to be used by people you tell it's address to.
just to point out a second view point
i'm not dismissing the importance of search engine ranking for most sites
ChrisFilter
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Out of genuine curiosity, which commercial (and indeed non-commercial) websaites don't care about being easily findable?
newbie
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Results 1 - 10 of about 826,000,000 for something
eight hundred and twenty six million hits
can she formulate a search that'll produce meaningful answers? If she can, she's able to make sense of the internet. For the most part there's little need to really know detail, but how to find out about it is important, as is discriminating the results, in particular when to use, and when to not use, wikipedia.
ChrisFilter
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In my experience, it's becoming more and more essential.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
my students are dole students who are most likly to be making web sies for nail bars and chicken shops
they don't even understand why they shouldn't use the marquee tag
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
well for example the last two sites i developed where a job board and an online exam system (which is used compleatly internally and the other one is only really for the benifit of our students )
nither of tehm needs any SEO indeed any random traffic would be a waste of bandwith
ChrisFilter
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Doesn't mean they shouldn't aspire for a decent career in the industry.
If schools thought like that it'd be very hard on the students who have a chance at doing well.
ChrisFilter
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Yeah, fair enough, point taken.
Shippou-Sensei
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hey if any of them ask i try to point them in the right direction i just try and set realistic goals
ChrisFilter
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Could you include basic SEO principles in those goals?
Geing top of the search rankings for "fried chicken south london" might make their clients a lot of money.
ChrisFilter
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(don't get me wrong, shippou. I'm not criticising you at all, just trying to highlight how SEO is where web pros should look to first)
Shippou-Sensei
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we get one day a week for 13 weeks to take people for zero experience to being able to make a web site ... there just isn't enough time
and to be honest i think if i was given some more time i'd probably like to give them some introduction to server side technologies
it's not that i'm dismising SEO i just try and focus on web standards and have all their code nice, neat, presentable and sensible. i talk about the importance of page titles and headings i make sure they understand structure and navigation are important and i'll give em a clip round the ear if they leave off the alt tag but in the end i focus it all to be about doing things the right way not about getting a hight google rating
i guess this is why i'm teaching not selling
and to be honest i think if i was given some more time i'd probably like to give them some introduction to server side technologies
it's not that i'm dismising SEO i just try and focus on web standards and have all their code nice, neat, presentable and sensible. i talk about the importance of page titles and headings i make sure they understand structure and navigation are important and i'll give em a clip round the ear if they leave off the alt tag but in the end i focus it all to be about doing things the right way not about getting a hight google rating
i guess this is why i'm teaching not selling
ChrisFilter
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You could argue that design with SEO as major consideration is doing things the right way, but yeah, I completely see where you're coming from.
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