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.

Week 5 del.icio.us bookmarks

Here is a link to a master of photography

Get out and discover urban photography

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