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


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