Week 7 Review

Blogger
I have made seven posts including this one on my blog detailing the material that has been presented and examined in class. I found some of these topics to be quite interesting, in particular flickr and delicious and CSS. I found these topics to be particularly interesting. It seemed to be the start of actually uploading pictures, saving URL's of interest and being able to manipulate the way a page looked.

Whilst i only worked on the basic aesthetic's of my blog, I feel that it was sufficent to make the blog easier to navigate and installed some of my own interestingness to the blog. 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. Personalized slide show and some of my own pictures were added. I have also added some gadgets to my blog, but only those that i consider to have added to the aesthetics of my page.

I have used many different tags. These include CSS, MPI104, Templates, bookmarks, delicious, photography, del.icio.us, delicious, Flickr, Blogger, HTML, Google, . I have tried to use multiple tags on each post so as to expand the possiblity of another blogger conecting with or reading my blog on a particular subject.

I have made comments on the following blogs Day in the Life of Ally, Amanda , Wes and Emma .

Delicious
I have book marked 28 web pages and blogs from fellow bloggers in MPI104. I have marked these as they are topics and sites that are of interest to me. I am a keen outdoor enthusiast, photographer and skier. I enjoy the outdoor and the lifestyle that it bring with it. I feel healthier than being couped up all day in front of a computer. I do enjoy and see the positive benefits of computing, in particular the internet. Three pages that I bookmarked and interest me are backcountry.com , perisher ski resort and ansell adams gallery .

Flickr
After starting to use Flickr it was clear that it was quite a useful site to share images and store them for free!! I uploaded 40 images and will continue to use this site after the completion of this subject. It is also a good way of have stored images so as to be able to use them in other applications when away from your home computer. The three images that i find to be favourites are ones that hold meaning to me.

The day i was lost in Niseko Japan skiing and ran into about ten other japanese telemark skiiers. Best skiing ever, waist deep all day!!

South coast of NSW near Meribula at a place call The Pinnacles. It is just a different and contrasting landscape to the rest of the wilderness there.

Skiing in New Zealand on Whakappa. Found this little ice flow that covered a cave. It was an awesome day with great friends out and about!!

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.