Starting a website or podcast

Hosting your site: Wix vs. Weebly

Many people don't realize just how easy it is to create a website! There are many different website building sites that allow users to design a page without any knowledge of html "coding" or the symbolic arrangement of statements or instructions in a computer program in which letters, digits, etc are represented as binary numbers. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coding)

Just starting out? Try creating a profile on Weebly.com. In this website builder, you are able to use their templates (such as backgrounds, text boxes, image boxes, etc) OR you have the option to html code. You can use any combination of the two! This website makes it very simple to create your page, by just dragging over the tool that you want on your site. Deejay Tech shows us just how easy fusing coding and the templates is!

Personally, I find Wix.com to be a little more intuitive and more simple for the beginner. My group and I are currently using Wix to create a major guide for the Communication Studies program. Wix's layout contains less icons as Weebly, yet it still offers just as many features. Though they might be harder to track dowb, some of the features it offers are mentioned in the video below.

Podcasts

Podcasts can be made for a variety of reasons. Some people make podcasts for entertainment while others create them for informative or educational purposes. Podcasts require audio only, which can make the editing process smoother than with say a video. When recording a podcast, it is important that you isolate your voice so that you eliminate the chance of undesirable background noise. Though it is fairly easy to edit out unwanted sounds, a clear, uninterrupted recording of the sole sound you want will produce a better result.

Audacity

In a program such as Audacity, the user is able to edit the recorded sound. In this sense, interfering sounds and pauses in speech are EASILY removed with a few clicks of the trimming tool. Each recording is imported into the program, and are easily dragged around to the desired location. In addition to imported sounds, Audacity and other similar programs offer special effect tools so that you can give your podcast or song the right feel.

Effects

In the video below, the audience is able to see how to use features such as:

-Noise Removal- removes background noise

-Normalize- makes sound loud as possible without changing the sound waves

-Compression- reduce fluctuations in voice

-Equalization- bass boost (strengthens voice) treble boost (clears voice)

-Hard Limiter- takes off massive spikes in waves