Week 6 Templates

CSS (cascading style sheet) is a method of producing and altering web pages quickly and easily. It mainly focuses on those pages written in HTML and XHTML. It allows the user to change the overall layout of a web page without altering the actual content. This is done by keeping the document content and document structure separate.

The accessability of a web page refers to how easily the content may be viewed by as many people as possible. It is a question of how can a person navigate a site easily or how functional is the site. This is vital to ganing attention of user and maintaining there interest. If a page is difficult to navigate or find information required then as a user i would switch immediately to another site.

Some aspects of the web page layout can be changed using templates. New gadgets may be added such as pictures, film or advertisements. By using templates developed by other people simple changes may be made in the layout of a page.

Templates do not allow the change of any content displayed on the web page. Major changes such as font, font size or colours may only be changed to individual specification through HTML edits. Some aspects of the actual layout are limited when using CSS, for example highly graphical backgrounds, lack of variables to be able to "change all" or structure is limited to rectangular shapes.

I have added some gadgets to my page via template changes. These include slide show, ad sense and a photography gadget. There were approximately 100K possible gadgets that could have been added to the blog dependant on personal interest. I also added a photo as a background to my heading and a description of the blog content.

Using CSS i made some colour changes to main background, Blog title and description and link hover. I also edited over all size and colour of the header and header description font.

Week 5 del.icio.us bookmarks

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Why not take a look at digital imaging online

Week 5 del.icio.us

Delicious has a similar method to Flickr to organise favourite pages. Using self developed tagging system to assist in the recall of favourite pages or URL's. It is also a way of discovering new pages through the use of tags. Other people may have had the same idea for naming a page. Even if you dont have a computer your Del.icio.us account is mobile the world over. In other words your tags or bookmarks are mobile. Great system if you are moving between computers.

This is a link to my Del.icio.us account

Week 4 Flickr

Web 2.0 is where it really kicks in. It is a new generation of web development where social interaction, file sharing (video and photo) and blogs are based. It has created a business revolution where this information can be shared with ease.

Folksonomy is the method of tagging items being shared on Web 2.0. The individual makes an independent choice with regard to the keywords applied to information. It is especially important in the organisation of information on the Web.

Picnik is a web based photo editor. It eliminates the need for expensive programs for this editing process.

Flickr is a wonderful method of storing, editing and sharing photo images with friends, colleagues and public. Flickr have what they have dubbed interestingness!! This is a bunch of features that they have set up on Flickr to give the suscriber more for their time.

This is a link to my Flickr

This is a link to a Wagga geotagged search on Flickr

Week 3 Blogger and HTML

Today we are learning about blogs. The benefits of these as a tool for sharing ideas, commenting on documents and being able to work collaboratively. Blogs may be used for personal enjoyment or for business purposes. There are many different forms of blogs such as personal, corporate, music, media and genre to name some.

Wikipedia defines a blog as a regular commentary maintained by an individual including graphics, video and items of interest.

Wikipedia defines Blogger as the blog publishing service. It was developed by Pyra Labs and subsequently purchased by Google in 2003.

This is a link to MPI104-2009 class blogspot

Week 2 Google