We held a seminar for businesses last Thursday at Unity Centre for Performing Arts. Our attentive, inquisitive audience of business owners absorbed all sorts of information in a short 1.5-hour timeframe. It was a please-ask-questions-as-we-go format, and each of us (there were five Pica Design panelists) added in demonstrations and stories to activate the content with real-life examples of web stuff.

To begin, we covered how websites work (hosts, files, domain names, links, browsers), searching the web, and ways people use the web. We demonstrated the anatomy of a basic website, steps for building a website, and then delved into functionality and content management systems (CMS). We touched on elements of design, testing, maintenance, pre-launch marketing, and launch marketing. And, as we concluded, we talked about social networking. Once we started talking about Facebook and Twitter, we could have gone on and on…

With the support of UniTel and Unity College, we passed on some of the knowledge we have been gathering over the few years. We are already looking forward to our next seminar (we’re hoping to conduct one in the fall). If you think of topics that would appeal and enlighten either business owners or individuals, please comment here. And, as always, thank you for listening!

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