13th week sum-up

After doing MPI104 for the last 13 weeks I have learnt so much about having a web presence and how to use a whole range of free online applications to my advantage. I have also found it interesting to find out what a lot of the Internet jargon means and how it works.
Some of the more interesting things I have learnt include;
• Creating accounts with communal web directories such as Flickr and Blogspot. This proved annoying some times due to the registration process, complication arouse from certain sites not liking different Web Browsers.
• Using HTML code to manipular comments and posts, customise my Blog and post links inside comments and posts. Although this was a tedious process I enjoyed working my way through it after editing my Blog skin the long way round only to find out a much easier and obvious method afterwards.
• Bookmarking sites online so I can access them from any computer through Delicious. By doing this I found it easier to work between my laptop and the Mac’s in the studio.
• Register my Blog through Technorati to create a web presence rating. At the time this was one of the more frustrating activities I faced, but after researching it further I found out the purpose for the Blogosphere and having a registry for Blogs.
• Creating a web page with iWeb and then putting it online with Fetch. This was probably my favourite activity to date. By having my own Website it allows me to post my work and creates something fun to show your mates. I found the process of taking the domain and site information from computer to computer frustrating but I think working of the one device the process is quite simple.
Overall I have enjoyed this subject over the last semester. I’m sure the things I have learnt will be rewarding further down the track.

Technorati

This is one thing i do not understand but here is what i got out of it. Technorati is a Blog "Mainframe" that stores all registered blogs. In the mainframe Technorati monitors new posts and links on your blog. Authority is a ranking system us by Technorati. Your rank is determined by the number of Blog links you have inside you posts. That is my understanding. but getting into Technorati is a long process and can be really annoying.

RSS Notes

RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works. It allows you to subscribe to feeds from RSS pages which will automatically update when new information is added to the page. Google Reader is a simple way to subscribe to RSS feeds. All you have to do is go to the Google Reader tab in Gmail and click on the add feed icon. After subscribing you can go through the information you have subscribed to in the Subscription side bar.

FTP Notes

In my research on FTP i found that it is the simplest way to exchange files between computers. It works with the internet's TCP/IP protocols. FTP is commonly used to transfer the files from the Web page files from their creator to the computer used to service the page and then to everyone on the Net. Another use is to download programs and other files to your computer from other servers. originally FTP was an insecure method of transferring because there was no method given to transfer data in an encrypted fashion. this allows anyone access to passwords, usernames & network configurations when they use a packet sniffer. the best way to avoid this is to use FTPS or SFTP these allow for data encryption.

Revision

Here is my summary;

Blogger:
This is my fifth blog since I’ve been using blogger. Ive created posts on blogger, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Templates and this review. My favourite post would have to be about the templates .
As far as my blog’s aesthetics go I have played around a lot with the html design of my template. I’ve found this both fun and head ache inducing. In the end I used some of my digital artwork to dress the page in what turned out to be a mix between army and Swiss cheese. For the fonts I kept it simple to keep the blog usable.
I have commented on some classmates pages about there blogs
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comment 2 .

Del.icio.us:
Whilse using Del.icio.us I have bookmarked twenty three web pages. These include a variety of topics from this class, social sites and from my design interests. My three favourite pages include Raph this is a 3d artist gallery that I found some really cool work on. Andre Kutscheraur designs this guy has some awesome work that I really like and it’s a really cool set up too. facebook a bit boring and predictable but still one of my most used sites.

Flickr:
I’ve always liked flickr as a viewer but now starting to enjoy posting my own work on there. Currently I have uploaded 26 images. These are my favourite three:
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Templates

after much research around the net i've doing so much trial and error work on my template. i found some useful sites that gave me the css coding to edit colours, images, padding and much much more. all though i was pointed out to me last class that you can change elements of you template without diving into the html code i found it very interesting and i think i learnt a lot by doing it manually. the down side of css is the amount of it. it can be hard to find things that you want to change.

Del.icio.us

Just set up a delicious account. not sue what to think yet but ive got high hopes for it. I like the idea of being able to have my bookmarks online and not having to have them on each computer. Here is a link to my account Del.icio.us here is other site that use tagging DG Design