A Club without a Website ...

You can cause your club to grow stronger if you can make communication and sharing of information easier. If you already have a computer and connection to the internet(ISP), the only things that you still need are free.

1. Free Website Space
2. Free Web Email Service
3. Free Photo Sharing Space
4. General Information
5. MSCONFIG

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General Information

• About scanning:
  Scanning is the copying of a photograph or a document from a paper format to a digital file format. Most scanners will create a digital version based on your expressed choice.

  For the web: A photograph is intentionally digitized in the lowest resolution (72 dots per inch) and about a bit larger than the size of the palm of your hand.

  For printing on paper: A photograph is digitized at the highest resolution (900 dots per inch) and about the size of a pillowcase. When you get your photographs digitized by a lab, you will get the pillowcase format. This way you can print almost good quality photographs on your home printer.

  Items can be scanned in different formats.
  TIFF is the default for most scanners, but too large to email or to place online on a website. One photograph will probably not fit on a single floppy.
  BMP is MicroSoft's version of a photograph. After you receive a BMP as an email attachment you will have trouble with your email until you clean the BMPs out.
  JPG is the preferred photograph format but when a photo is created by a digital camera it is almost 18 by 14 inches in size. You are lucky if you can fit 5 photos on a floppy. Reduction is always necessary before emailing or placing JPGs online.
  GIF is the standard for logos and clip art such as what you see on this web page. They are so small that you can store almost a million on one floppy.

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• About file incompatibility:
  Every file (i.e., a photograph, a document, or an attachment) is created by a specific application (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). In order for you to open and view the file, your computer must have the same version or a newer version of that application. If not, then the file is incompatible with your computer. This is a common problem when someone sends you an email with an attachment and your computers are incompatible with each other.
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• About extensions:
  Every file or document comes with a 3 letter extension (e.g., mypaper.doc; mypicture.jpg; myvideo.mov) which indicates what application created the file and what application can open the file. So, when you receive an email with an attachment you can readily tell whether you can open the file or whether it probably is just a nasty virus. Here are some common attachment extension examples.

  File Extension .doc, .xls, .ppt .txt, .rtf, .dat .jpg, .gif, .tiff, .bmp .htm, .html .mpg, .avi, .mp3, .wav .zip .pdf .vbs, .exe

  Application Needed to Open the File MicroSoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint Any simple text editor Any graphic application Browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera) Video/Music MultiMedia application WinZip Adobe Acrobat Reader Do Not Open. Potential Virus.

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• About Adobe Reader:
  People who purchase Adobe Acrobat can convert just about any file, regardless of what application was used to create it, into a format called Portable Document Format (pdf). This is the closest the computer indistry has come to a universal format. In order to open pdf files all we need is to download and install the free Acrobat Reader.