Time to recap our first 5 episodes of our podcast FS-Air!
It's been a month and a half since we first released our recordings to the net, and you all have been very responsive. So for all of you who haven't been following on the site or haven't subscribed to our iTunes feed, here's a small run down of everything that happened.
Episode 1: Coding in School
Our first Episode! You can probably tell we were quite nervous by how much our voices are shaking! James highly regards this as our greatest episode thus far, and I have to agree with him that it's quite good, but it's not my personal favorite (Episode 4 is).
In the show we cover the topic of why Schools should or should not begin teaching web development in school. We also branch into how might schools go about teaching students web development when it does become part of basic curriculum.
Episode 2: Website Startup & launch
In this episode we broke down the steps to starting up a new website and launching it to the general public. We discussed hosting, domain names, registrars, and offer some tips from our past experiences. With many references to future episodes, this is one of our short and more straight-to-the-point episodes.
Episode 3: Generating Traffic
With information on how to generate followers, get linkbacks, monitor these visitors, maintaining an SEO'ed sight, and how to properly format your site; Episode 3 had more information packed into it than we knew what to do with. It goes without saying that episode 4 has the largest show-note of any of the episodes thus far (and might hold that title for a while still!).
Episode 4: Developing to Standards
There's NO reason for websites to contain invalid code in modern web development. Which is exactly why we sat down for half-an-hour and discussed how you can make your website valid and why it's proper and helpful to do so. This is my favorite episode since I'm a massive advocate for forcing websites to use W3 valid coding.
Episode 5: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
With a 2 week delay in front of it (technical difficulties and then holidays) FS-A returned with a mighty episode of how to get and keep your website at the top of search engine results. We were graced by David Leggett (founder of Tutorial 9) and even though I mispronounced his name ("Lig-get", not "Leg-get") he was kind enough to offer his vast knowledge of SEO goodness to the FS-A listeners.
There you have it! 5 Historic episodes of FS-Air in the history book with MANY more to come. Be on the lookout every Friday for the next release.
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James
January 13th
Wow all of our episodes on one page! There like our children man :D anyway great round up!
I still will say and that although Shakey, Episode 1 was the best due to the questions we brought up and how we showed it can apply to a childs learning e.g. XHTML being Sematic = Better at laying out things in your head or for note taking.
But I also say that Episode 3 was pretty good as it was a great episode to have before we branched into the mighty SEO.
And yes the Episode 4 show notes quickly became very large as validation is a large topic so although the show notes, not actually being notes anymore. I had to put it all in, otherwise someone wouldn't of been able to obtain what validation and is and other parts of it from 3 paragraphs. I never actually did do a word count when I finished writing each of show notes. Maybe I should starting doing one!
Fire G
January 13th
@James: I think it's safe to say that your show-notes are of College essay length! Thanks again for writing them!
James
January 13th
Ha ha, no problem :)