1-day workshop for artists, musicians, and small businesses
February 20, 2010
9:00am to 4:00pm
Room BC-246, Benton Center, Corvallis, Oregon
$105
To reserve a seat, dial 541-917-4929 for LBCC’s Small Business Development Center.
Corvallis artist, businesswoman, and educator, Pam Van Londen, will assist small business owners in setting up a freely hosted web site in just a few hours.
Agenda
- Overview: what is a web presence and how can you have a successful one?
- Demonstration: how to plan ahead.
- Demonstration: how to keep inventory to streamline the process.
- 15 minute break
- Demonstration and practice: how to optimize images and documents for fast-loading web pages.
- 1 hour lunch break (on your own)
- Build a site: Create a web site and add your biography and photos, documents, or movie links (using a free online service).
- 15 minute break
- Demonstration: 10 free options for promoting your new web site
Follow-up
- One free consultation via email (must happen within 2 weeks of the workshop).
- If enough students are interested, I’ll schedule a half-day catch up class for $30.
Student requirements
- Comfort with basic computer skills. Please review this list to help assess your comfort level.
- Access to web mail (bring username, password, and link to your online mail site).
- Comfort with using a USB stick drive (also known as a thumb drive).
- Bring in at least 4 digital photos, music files, and/or documents on a USB stick drive.
