... Sitting here in the Mac lab.. listening to the loud music coming from Final Fling at the Crow Bar.
siiiigggggh
What a great way to spend my Wednesday night
That said, I hope all of the animators are ready for an amazing party next week when we've all finished our assessments!!
xx
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Finale...?
Emm Pea Eye One Oh Four…
We’ve reached the end of an exciting and enlightening semester of Multimedia; and so, its time to surmise all the wonderful things that we have discovered.
Our first steps were to create a Google account. Although I was already familiar with Gmail, I DID learn that I could change my Gmail layout to be all spacey and awesome. I also learnt that Google has a bajillion different facets to it.. like Docs, Reader, and Blogger.
In the week we started using Blogger, I learnt some of the HTML basics, such as making a link and making a simple webpage in notepad. We had a bit of a play with templates and aethetics in Blogger as well. Although you could use HTML to modify the blog, I chose not to because I was afraid I would break it.. lol
Over the semester, we signed up for a bunch of different websites; Flickr, Delicious, and Technorati. I learnt a bit about how tags and tagging works, as these sites all rely on tags for searching and indexing.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much use out of any of these three, as there are MUCH better image hosting sites, I don’t use bookmarks much, and I don’t blog.. XD
The end of semester was a bit more intense, with making an iWeb page and working with RSS and FTP. RSS was pretty interesting. I had come across the term heaps of times before but I have never bothered to check it out. Using Google Reader is really useful for checking websites for updates and stuff, so that was cool.
I had a vague idea about FTP, but I had never actually used an FTP client like Fetch before.
Learning iWeb was not the most fun thing in the world, but I somehow managed. Because of its simplicity, it doesn’t provide enough options for really fiddley stuff, OR it adds in extra bits and pieces you can’t remove. Siiggh.
Anyway, This topic was a really good introduction, and I can see how many of these topics would lead onto advanced things, like creating advanced websites and stuff.
Woohoo bring on MPI110 :D
xx
We’ve reached the end of an exciting and enlightening semester of Multimedia; and so, its time to surmise all the wonderful things that we have discovered.
Our first steps were to create a Google account. Although I was already familiar with Gmail, I DID learn that I could change my Gmail layout to be all spacey and awesome. I also learnt that Google has a bajillion different facets to it.. like Docs, Reader, and Blogger.
In the week we started using Blogger, I learnt some of the HTML basics, such as making a link and making a simple webpage in notepad. We had a bit of a play with templates and aethetics in Blogger as well. Although you could use HTML to modify the blog, I chose not to because I was afraid I would break it.. lol
Over the semester, we signed up for a bunch of different websites; Flickr, Delicious, and Technorati. I learnt a bit about how tags and tagging works, as these sites all rely on tags for searching and indexing.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much use out of any of these three, as there are MUCH better image hosting sites, I don’t use bookmarks much, and I don’t blog.. XD
The end of semester was a bit more intense, with making an iWeb page and working with RSS and FTP. RSS was pretty interesting. I had come across the term heaps of times before but I have never bothered to check it out. Using Google Reader is really useful for checking websites for updates and stuff, so that was cool.
I had a vague idea about FTP, but I had never actually used an FTP client like Fetch before.
Learning iWeb was not the most fun thing in the world, but I somehow managed. Because of its simplicity, it doesn’t provide enough options for really fiddley stuff, OR it adds in extra bits and pieces you can’t remove. Siiggh.
Anyway, This topic was a really good introduction, and I can see how many of these topics would lead onto advanced things, like creating advanced websites and stuff.
Woohoo bring on MPI110 :D
xx
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Website That Goes PING
Technorati.
In a nutshell, its a blog search engine. However it also indexes RSS feeds from blogs, as well as tracks outbound and inbound activity around a blog post. It ranks blogs and gives them a number called Authority -- which is determined by the number of unique blogs linked to yours in the past 180 days.
I have an awesome authority of 0, and a rank of 4,814,527.
I don't like Technorati.
Aside from the fact that it wasn't even WORKING in the class we were supposed to sign up for it, its difficult to navigate, and looks like someone puked a packet of peppermint gum all over their monitor.
How is it different from Google? Google is decent, easy to use, doesn't look like garbage, oh and Technorati uses tags and stuff for searching.
So yeah.. that was a very uninteresting week -_-
coming up next.. iweb spectacularity!
xx
In a nutshell, its a blog search engine. However it also indexes RSS feeds from blogs, as well as tracks outbound and inbound activity around a blog post. It ranks blogs and gives them a number called Authority -- which is determined by the number of unique blogs linked to yours in the past 180 days.
I have an awesome authority of 0, and a rank of 4,814,527.
I don't like Technorati.
Aside from the fact that it wasn't even WORKING in the class we were supposed to sign up for it, its difficult to navigate, and looks like someone puked a packet of peppermint gum all over their monitor.
How is it different from Google? Google is decent, easy to use, doesn't look like garbage, oh and Technorati uses tags and stuff for searching.
So yeah.. that was a very uninteresting week -_-
coming up next.. iweb spectacularity!
xx
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