Last class activities

 

In todays class we learnt about wix.com

Basically it is a cloud-based web development platform that was first developed and popularized by the Isreali company also called Wix. It allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of online drag and drop tools.Users may add functionality such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications.

Wix is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades. Users must purchase premium packages in order to connect their sites to their own domains, remove Wix ads, add e-commerce capabilities, or buy extra data storage and bandwidth.Wix was founded in 2006 by Isreali's Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan (). 

The activity was really fun. My wix.com website focussed on creating a website for my two sons' cresche called 'Mills Educare'.

 

 Our second activity for the session was slideshare.

It is better known as LinkedIn SlideShare is a Web 2.0–based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: Powerpoint,PDF, Keynnote or Open document presentations. Slide checks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites. Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to Youtube, but for slideshows. It was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012^. The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among employees more easily, but it also has expanded to become a host of a large number of slides that are uploaded merely to entertain. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content.
The website gets an estimated 70 million unique visitors a month, and has about 38 million registered users. 

 It can be a useful site for empowering ones knowledge on topics that you can use for when you, doing research and give you a better understanding of topics.