[Hidden-tech] New to hidden Tech

[Merlin Calo]

Hello all:

I am new to this List-Serve and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Merlin Calo and have nine years of Design experience total, mainly in Graphic Design and some Web experience. I have also grown up in the Valley for most of my life, growing up in Amherst since the age of 4, going to school at UMass Amherst, doing some graduate level work at RIT (NY), living in Northampton, and now living in Holyoke. I am 31 now, so I am pretty familiar with the area. 

I am looking to Hidden Tech as resource, an opportunity to learn more specifically in web design, meeting new people, job opportunities, taking part in collaborative projects/networking events, and networking opportunities. 

I am interested in full time opportunities as Web Designer or Web Design assistant. I am not a computer science person/programmer by any means, I am more front end person, more on the creative side. If anyone knows of any opportunities or resources feel free to contact me. 

I am currently working in Dreamweaver to get my website back online, which I would like to get back up within a 3-4 weeks. Can anyone recommend any good Dreamweaver tutorials as a refresher and any good hosts to put my site back online? I have used freeservers in the past and they were about $98 for the year. Any feedback on reasonable prices, resources,  what to look for in a host provider (ie: availability in support /tools available) would be very much appreciated.  

By business name is M3D-Merlin Multimedia Designs. I look forward to meeting and working with a lot people in this exciting technology community here in the Valley. 

See everyone today at the GoNomad cafe. I will be wearing a baby blue button shirt and gray dress slacks if you want to say hello. :O)

Merlin Calo 

Jeremy Dunn <jjdunn at localnet.com> wrote:    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
   ** You too can help the group
   ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
   ** If you did, we all thank you.


If you're not already aware of it, there is a pretty comprehensive listing 
of free, open-source CMS' here
www.opensourcecms.com

You can play with each one; there's a fully-functional demo of each online. 
The data refreshes every 2 hours so you can tinker as much as you like. 
Also they are categorized by various functions (e.g. shopping cart) and have 
user-ratings.

Worth a look.

- Jeremy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich" 
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] nonprofit CRM


>
> Civicrm is a series of extension modules that works with Joomla or Drupal.
> Great if you are prepared to build a Joomla/Drupal based web site - but 
> not if you just want the CRM
>
> We also started to use ACT and found a number of issues when trying to 
> work/sync on multiple computer and not have the
> time/resources/justification to really support it -- I expect to move back 
> to sugarCRM.
>
> Rich
>
> andrew bellak wrote:
>> Hey Doug,
>>
>> I heard about a resource from a person who has done some websites for 
>> non-profits: http://civicrm.org/ I haven’t used it or checked it out yet 
>> but it looks interesting.
>>
>> We’re also considering switching to using ACT in-house www.act.com 
>>  
>> as it seems pretty reasonably priced. I’m not sure if it’ll have all the 
>> functionality you’re looking for though.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Andrew Bellak
>>
>> 646-552-5783 mobile
>>
>
> -- 

_______________________________________________
Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net
Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net

You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.
If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members   
page on the Hidden Tech Web site.
http://www.hidden-tech.net/members

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20071120/6f1c3351/attachment-0005.html