Technology in Practice (TIP) Committee Archive

For those who had to miss our April program on designing a web site, "Lloyd's 2001 Web Toolkit" is now available.

April 2001 Program Press Release

Hands On: Designing a Website
Lloyd Unsell, Jr., Executive Director of AIA Potomac Valley, will present the website design process, Tuesday, April 24, 2001 at 6:00 PM

Baltimore, Maryland — On Tuesday, April 24, 2001 beginning at 6:00 PM, The AIABaltimore Technology in Practice (TiPC) Committee will hold its monthly meeting at the Baltimore offices of Cho Benn Holback + Architects located at 200 North Charles Street.
Have you thought about designing a website for your firm? Well, NOW is your chance to learn how! This month’s presentation will feature Lloyd Unsell, Jr., Executive Director of AIA Potomac Valley. Designing websites since 1995, Mr. Unsell has created sites for AIA components, legal and architectural firms, non-profit groups, churches, and private citizens. He will walk us through how to get a domain name, find web space, use and produce web graphics, use FTP (File transfer protocol), use HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and how to promote your site! He has conducted seminars on website design for the Council of Architectural Component Executives (CACE), and members of his chapter. To view some of the sites designed, visit http://www.pvwebdesign.com.

Beginning promptly at 6:00 PM, the cost, payable in advance, is $5.00 for AIA members, Affiliates, and Students and $10.00 for non-AIA members. Contact the Baltimore AIA Chapter office at 410/625-2585 for further details.

"Lloyd's 2001 Web Toolkit," a CD-ROM with nearly 500 MB of Web, graphics and Internet freeware and shareware, is available by mail. Use to create and transfer web sites and use the Internet. With a 56K modem, it would take nearly 20 hours to download all the software on this CD. Some items included on the CD:

Netscape 4.75 AND 6.0
AOL Instant Messenger
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (for the PC)
Photo Impact 4.0
ACDSee graphics viewer, version 2.41
FOUR HTML Editors and one HTML Validator
TWO FTP programs
Innoculate-It Personal Edition anti-virus
Lots of web graphics
Several freeware web tools Lloyd uses
Bluelight - K-Mart's free ISP software

For each copy Lloyd asks for a donation of $20 in either cash or check (payable to "AIAPVC" with "Scholarship Fund" in the memo) for the Bernard M. Frishman Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Send to Lloyd N. Unsell, Jr., Executive Director, AIA Potomac Valley Chapter
3907 Metzerott Road
College Park, MD 20740-2078
Phone: 301-935-5544 / Fax: 240-465-0253
http://www.aiapvc.org/

The AIA Baltimore Technology in Practice (TiPC) Committee examines and presents the use of technology to the design of buildings and the practice of architecture. Committee meetings are every fourth Tuesday at 6:00 PM. For more information about TiPC activities, or to be added to the programs mailing list, send an Email to committee chair Geraldine Pontius at gpontius@gcp-architect.com. The above program is scheduled to last from 6PM to 8PM. Reservations are required and space is limited, so send your check early.