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#1.
The author:
Fig. #1: Myself (Dr Jan Pajak) in front of a temple in Malaysia.
Malaysia is a country of colourful culture, which supports several
different religions. Folklore and traditions attached to each of
these religions are usually very fascinating.
Notice that you can see the enlargement
of each illustration from this web site. For this it suffices to click
on this illustration. Furthermore, most of the internet browsers that you may
use, including the "Internet Explorer",
allow also to download each illustration
to your own computer, where it can be looked at, reduced or enlarged to the
size that you may want, or printed with your own graphical software.
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#2.
Go E-com or have no income!
In old days people used to say "publish or perish".
Presently everyone believes "go e-com or have no incom".
In the present world of Internet, WWWs, and couch potato customers,
in order to reach to people, you need your own web site.
But to have such a site, you need to either order it from expensive experts,
or build it yourself. If you mastered some basic computing skills,
I would recomment to do it yourself. The main reasons "why" I am going to outline below.
If you decide to try, I am going to guide you on this web page, step by step,
through the process of making your own web site.
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#3.
Let me introduce myself:
I am a lecturer and
a scientist (with a degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences),
and my subject area, amongst others, covers also the design
and construction of web sites. In order to indicate here a
level of my professional experience, here is a list of
tertiary level educational institutions in which I worked
so-far:
- The Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland (where I was employed as a Polish equivalent to a reader from English University system)
- The Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand (where I had an opportunity to work as a Post-Doctoral Fellow).
- The Southland Polytechnic, Invercargill, New Zealand (where I had the pleasure to work as a Senior Tutor).
- The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (wher I was a Senior Lecturer).
- The Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus (where I was an Associate Professor).
- The University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (where I had a honor to work as an Associate Professor).
- The University of Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Borneo (where I utilised my skills and experience working as an Associate Professor).
- The Aoraki Polytechnic, Timaru, New Zealand (where I was employed as a tutor).
- The Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand (where I exercised my web skills as a tutor).
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#4.
My research:
Most of my research has a multidisciplinary
character. For example, apart from
computing, currently I also investigate a device for giving
advanced warnings about incoming earthquakes. This device
is to raise alarm a long time before an earthquake
strikes. Outcomes from some of this my research on
earthquakes you can review on web pages
alarm.gq.nu or
alert.1hwy.com.
Have a look at one of them. Perhaps you find it interesting.
Of course, the bulk of my latest research relates to the area
of computer science. In order to name examples of
topics that I researched from the area of computer
science, these included, amongst others:
(a) Search
engines. I am researching these currently (I actually try
to develop several search engines and then investigate their
properties). You can find out more about this current research
from the web page
Search Engine.
In turn samples of engines developed so-far you can find at
free.7host03.com/Pajak.
(b) Natural languages processing.
(c) Thermal graph method for investigation of temperature distribution
(this method is a version of finite elements method).
(d) A language for automatic programming (I actually was an
author of my own programming language called JAP - named
from the Polish "Jezyk Automatycznego Programowania"
(i.e. the "Language of Automatic Programming"), which was
in use for several years at a number of Polish Universities.
Also several other topics. More information about
directions of my research in computing, and about my research
publications in this area, you can find on the web page
Computing Research
from the menu.
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#5.
Why this web site was created:
Motto: "If you give to someone a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach someone to fish, you feed him for a lifetime" (a Korean proverb).
Main reasons for "doing your web site
yourself":
Why do your web page by yourself, if these is so many experts around, which can do it for you!
Well there is a lot of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with money,
as they concern areas which money usually cannot buy. Here are the most important of them:
1. Updating. If you order a web page
from an expert, each time you need to change something on it,
you need to hire an expert to do it for you. Thus the subsequent
updates of your web page are going to cost a lot of money
(sometimes even more than the page itself) and are going to be slow.
But when you do it yourself,
you introduce these changes imemdiately when there is a need for them.
2. Getting it right. If you deal with
your clients in person, you can pick up various clues from tone of their
voice, the choice of words used, the way it is said, pauses,
body language, etc. Thus a personal contact gives you beedback in form of
emotions and meaning over and above the actual words being spoken. But in
case of web pages, you do not know what the reception is going to be, until
it is posted and visited by clients. So the actual feedback you receive
after everything is ready. To react on this feedback, you mast continually
experiment with your web page, until the response you are getting is right.
If you use such a tactics via an expert, it would const you a constant
employment of a good web site maker.
3. Communication barrier. Since you work in a field that
is to be presented on your web site, you know that in this particular field certain matters
are rather importrant and should be emphasised, that certain features are described with
a characteristic terminology, and that some details are more important than others and
thus should be made clear. Thus, if you do you page yourself, then you do all these subtle
things in a right way. But if you employ a web expert, then you need to explain
to this expert all such subtle matters. However, because the web expert is not an expert
in your area, he/she is not "feeling" the subject, and there will always be some matters
that expert is going to get wrong. So the overcoming of the communication barrier between
you and the web expert, sometimes will require more effort and consume more energy, than
the doing your web site all by yourself. So the gain from "doing it yourself" is rather
obvious.
4. Keeping in touch. At present times computing and
Internet play an important role in everyone's life. In order to understand clearly their
potentials, and keep up to dete with the newest developments, you need to keep in touch
with them. Building and maintaining your own web site, is one of the best ways of such
keeping in touch with computing.
After this introduction, you are now ready to start learning details,
which are outlined on the Prototyping Page.
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#6.
Procedure to follow in making your own web page:
Fig. #2: Web programming is like a bull:
you need to grab it by the horns!
Myself (Dr Jan Pajak) in Locarno,
Switzerland.
The basic procedure you need to follow to prepare your own web site:
Here are the basic steps that you need complete in order to prepare your
own web site (for more details see the next page in menu entitled "Prototyping"):
1. Define (or design) your future web site.
2. Find and secure a web space (i.e. a server) which is to host your web site.
3. Develop or copy your first prototype of the web site.
4. Upload your first prototype of the web site at your server.
5. Repetetively keep improving and uploading your web site, until you are satisfied
that it meets your needs and quality standards.
6. Enhance your web site (e.g. make it user friendly and search
engines friendly).
7. Direct Internet traffic to your web site (i.e. submit it to various search engines,
advertise it through discussion lists, emails, your visit cards and brochures, etc.)
to it.
8. Maintain your web site (i.e. systematically improve, extend, an update it, as
circumstances change or develop).
This procedure of constructing a web site is called a "prototype model"
and it is the easiest one to follow (there is another one, called a "waterfall model",
but that other one is more difficult and requires more practical experience.
Fig. #3: One of my photographs,
with students of software engineering
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