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Welcome to
to the September 2007 issue of
ZooNews, from professional
Web site design company Zoonini
Web Services.
I hope everyone had a fantastic summer!
Have you ever needed to send someone a massive
file – and
hesitated to email it because you weren't sure about
sending a file that big? Perhaps your (or your recipient's)
Web host or ISP doesn't allow attachments that huge, or
your recipient was on a slow dial-up Internet
connection?
Can you imagine sending a few large attachments to
someone you didn't realize was on vacation, causing them
to reach their email limit – and bouncing all further email
to them with a "mailbox
full" error – all unbeknownst to your recipient, who's
lying on a beach somewhere, blissfully ignorant of the email
calamity under way? Horrors!
Don't despair – and don't worry about
burning and mailing a CD-ROM. Fortunately, there are lots
of online services devoted solely to helping people send
large files more efficiently – and
many of them provide basic service for free.
With some, you plug in the email address of your
recipient and upload the file from your hard drive. Your
correspondent automatically gets sent a simple email with
a Web link to the file, which they can then download at their
leisure. Other systems allow you to upload the file and retrieve
a download link that you can include in your own email.
Here are a whack of services to check out:
So remember, think twice before you email out those 20 MB
of high-resolution photos – and
if you have any doubts, just use one of these handy
file-sharing sites instead!
Ever get mixed up about the difference between upload and
download?
Since I used both terms a few times in this month's Tip for Tat, let me just
clarify. When you upload, you are putting files on a server;
when you download, you are retrieving files from a server.
You may upload and download using a Web-based tool – such
as the file-storage services mentioned above – or via a method
called FTP,
or File Transfer Protocol, which requires a
piece of software called, you guessed it, an FTP program.
That's it!
Got a technology term you'd like
demystified in ZooNews?
Send it to questions@zoonini.com.
Zoonini is pleased to announce a bumper
crop of Web site launches for a variety of talented
folks!
Four years after Zoonini built Bank of Victoria version
1.0, we are proud to announce a relaunch. Our site for
artist Victoria
Stanton gives visitors
a glimpse into the past, present, and future work of this
eclectic Montreal-based performance artist, author, videomaker,
musician and spoken-word talent. We built the site using
a content-management system (CMS) that lets Victoria easily
update virtually any page of the site, including the News & Upcoming
Events section which spreads the word about
concerts, performances, readings, exhibits, artist residencies
and more.
Rich colours foster a dramatic feel at ReadCharlotteMede.com,
the official site of novelist Charlotte Mede. The site features
a synopsis of Explosive, her historical
romance to be published this winter, an author Q&A, news
about upcoming books, and links to sites where her novels
may be purchased online.
The 5.75 Questions You've Been Avoiding from life/business
coach Michael Bungay Stanier inspires and entertains viewers
with a series of challenging questions. Featuring outstanding
Flash animation from Haig Bedrossian and a store full of
5.75 goodies including screensavers and a DVD of the movie.
Montreal logo and trademark designers Logo Vortex showcase
their work, provide a biography of graphic artist Carlos
Otero, and offer a convenient contact form. The site was
built from a design by Otero himself and opens with a dynamic
Flash logo animated by Protopop Design.
I've stubbornly resisted taking part in some
of the massively pervasive social-networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter,
and MySpace,
participation in which seems to be more and more de
rigeur these days among a surprisingly
large cross-section of the public. There are various reasons
why I've "just said no", but mostly I really don't
need more Internet pastimes to become addicted to!
So when
folks at a recent business meeting highly recommended LinkedIn as
a useful networking site, I was skeptical. But after they
insisted it really was worthwhile as a business
tool,
I finally relented and signed up. Over the last few years,
I'd already received a dozen LinkedIn invitations from various
business associates
– invites I sheepishly confess that I'd quickly dismissed
from my inbox – now
I would finally get to see what I was missing.
Sure enough, mere days after joining up, I
was contacted about a Web site remake by a business-owner
associate of a client of mine who I'd added to my network.
Not only that, but I reaped an entirely unexpected
benefit: last weekend I got together with a good
high-school buddy – now Boston-based and the
head of his own telecom consulting firm – who I hadn't seen
in over twenty years and had never seriously considered getting
back in touch with until I spotted his name on LinkedIn.
Despite the intervening two decades, we reminisced like no
time had passed – all
while his understanding wife and my patient husband tried
not to be bored to tears (sorry, guys!). I'm positive that
this reunion wouldn't have happened without an online introduction – and
for that alone, I thank you, LinkedIn.
I invite all ZooNews readers to feel free to view my LinkedIn
profile and add me to your
network!
À la prochaine,
kp
aka Kathryn Presner |
