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Website Building 101

by Sarah Dillon

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It’s fair to say that the online world has changed a lot since I built my first website. The demise of GeoCities is only one such change (and oh my, what a sorry change that was).

My first website was on the unmissable touristic delights of Ireland’s Shannon Region. As my geographical horizons expanded, so too did my website, and this was gradually replaced with hard-won advice from the study-abroad trenches in France, Germany and Spain: this bar in Jena hires casual student workers, that dorm building is to be avoided at the Université de Franche-Comté, and here’s another way around this pesky bureaucratic requirement at the Universidad de Granada. [Read more…]

Last updated: 7 March, 2011 by Sarah Dillon. Filed Under: Moi, Technology for translators Tagged With: Professional development, website building for freelancers, websites