Week Eight

I signed up as a Zoho writer and explored the site. I enjoyed changing the font colours and adding an image, however when I was ready to publish it on my blog it froze. The explanation given was that a script on the page was causing Internet Explorer to run slowly, and that if it continued to run on my computer, it would become non responsive. It seems my fancy script and coloured background were more than it could handle.

The Web 2.0 award nominees were far too numerous to sort through so I chose the short list - still too many! My computer seemed to be incredibly slow, not sure if it was the time of day or the sites I was looking at. I found a site that enabled a writer to self publish. Fifty copies of a 260 page book would cost USD$2,073.

At Bibliocom I checked out the availability of a hard to find book of my favourite author. A helpful site for 'would be authors' also caught my eye, not that I am such a person, but for anybody that is it's great to know all this information is here at the click of a few buttons. That is what I find so useful about the Internet and these exercises have opened my eyes to how much is available, unknown to me as I'd never taken the time to explore in this way.