Author Archives: Ben Smith

I have been an associate member of the NZCS for coming up to 18 months now. I decided it was a very good idea for me to join a Professional Body, and what Professional Body would be better than the New Zealand Computing Society. Sure enough I sent off my application form with dollars and soon thereafter I was crowned an Associate Member…. yay me! Shortly after I came aboard I was very fortunate to be invited to sit on … Continue reading →

So much I wanna do to this site…. I dont know where to start……. I thought I’d start with a worthless post stating this!

I decided to have a play with a new style. I was finding myself looking at my old style thinking ‘wow is this a dark looking site’ I have decided to try a lighter looking theme. This one appeals to me more for the following reasons 1. It looks more welcoming and forthcoming with the lighter colours 2. The layout displays the functionality slightly better than the other style 3. It was easier to ‘hack’ bits of code out with … Continue reading →

I thought I might have one of these categories….. Gives me a chance to explain some of the changes and modifications to the site…. being a novice coder/amateur web builder some of you skilled people might be able to offer pointers for achieving some of the goals I have for the site…. ….heres hoping

For me ICT is an important part of my life…. I love everything about ICT. Computers/media/adoption and helping other come to grasps with IT!! ICT is a forever going industry and it plays a part in almost everybody’s life to some degree…. Here I will be able to talk and express and explain these things.. Standby…….

The 5 minute install of wordpress is exactly that! 5 minutes. A couple of configuration changes from the main index site and we have hyperlinks and blogging… Although not finished I have a basic layout that I can work with. Something that I can build some design skills on. I guess I should of paid more attention at Uni during my User Centred Design papers…. Oh well….. life goes on.