ASSESSMENT #2
Creating a web page was challenging, I'd never tried to do anything like this before. In class we created basic webpages (well, I wrote down the codes in a book, there weren't enough computers) using notepad and HTML language. That evolved to CSS pages, for externally controlling the design of the HTML page. HTML was fun and not too difficult at all, CSS caused a few problems until I got a good grasp on the labelling and linking process to get the two pages to communicate. There was a small but warm feeling of accomplishment when they synced up. Next was RSS, which was a nightmare of unknown blundering about. For RSS I'd recommend you just have to keep soldiering on and trying different options and links until it works for you. I found I had to look on a few websites and discover things that the tutorials had ommitted or assumed, or I was just too.. mentally well-fortified to get quickly. The process of self-discovery of what works and what doesn't, in making a website, was just as important to me as recieving the advice of tutorials, seniors and classmates. There are a few books in the library (challenging a phone directory in depth) to help learn about HTML tag-up language, although the website w3schools was more accessible (speedy links and takes up no space), for learning about crazy option like animation, background image borders, adding audio and youtube. A lot of these codes didn't translate unfortunately, but the idea is exciting. Most of all the interest of others in what you're doing and your own interest in creating a website about something that communicates with you is what kept me going I found. But it's fun once it all starts coming together and the pages are interacting properly. Best feeling :D I don't know if it's the success of Finally succeeding at getting this RSS page listen to the HTML page and CSS page, or it could be the Eminem on my iPod, but either way right now the feeling when it all starts to work together is really good. The design of my web page is a bit Andy Warhol slightly spacey and random, I'd seen it before in other people's style and I thought it was beautiful and slightly disconnected from reality. So I wanted to try it too haha.
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Thursday, 24 May 2012
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Assessment #1 blog post
Assessment #1 blog post; the summary...
=Blogger=
+ Posts: 8 This includes MPI104 related and theme related. My running theme was 'All Things Japan', which were the most interesting of my posts, about Japanese art and photography; Language skills and TV dramas; Celebrating your birthday overseas. I tried my best to be consistently interesting though... so feel free to read some of the others ^^)
+ Work done on aesthetics: In Template I customised my blog Template (from 'Travel'); where I also adjusted the widths, layout, and text fonts and colours. I tried for a colour scheme that matched up/complemented each part (i.e. text, background).
+ Comments on other blogs (and the links to the comments) can be found on this post - "Miscellaneous post commenting".
+ The tags I used: assessment blog, Birthdays, blogging, blog viewing, celebrating, comments, crucial post, delicious, first post, Flickr, Gifu FC, Gokusen, Hope Maguire, interesting topics, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese drama, language techniques., Matt Barron Lecturer, mpi104_2012, MPI104, New Gallery, Physical Japan, soccer fans, stacks.
+ Other work I've done on blogger: I added gadgets to my sidebars (Fish, MP3 player, Diggs) and below posts bar. I re-arranged how the parts of the blog were set up in "Layout". I designed a favicon for my URL - so that ever time you have my blog URL up, it won't have the orange "B" for the blogger site, but my own symbol linking it visually to my site. I added two more pages to my MPI104 blog, that are URL links to the relating MPI104 Flickr and MPI104 Del.icio.us sites. I called the pages "Flickr PLace" and "MPI Del.ic.ious". In settings I checked on all the options and made sure it was formatted how I would like it - blog description, Header, sub header, language, time zone, commenting. I added personal information on the profile page, about my interests etc.
+ That's about it for blogger. Here is the link: Hope Maguire's Blog
=Del.icio.us=
+ The number of bookmarked web pages (Links) is 14.
+ Why these are of interest to me?- they're my hobbies/interests. Why I found them interesting is why I chose them as stacks: MPI104 - with 6 links (My own MPI104 sites - Flickr; Blog; Masterblog; and three other blogs I found interesting) is all course related, and I find this course interesting, I didn't know so much about these websites before, it's pretty cool :)
Mangamania links - with 3 links to manga websites - because I love Japanese manga, Korean Manhwa, and Chinese (not sure what they call it there) manga. And I thought, you know, if anyone else wanted to find out about it - here's the links to some informative, interesting places.
Fruit alone links - with 5 links to websites about just one specific fruit. Because one day I just suddenly pictured fruit as always being in a fruitbowl and I wanted to separate them up into "just an apple" etc, random yes, I think I was red-lining on the lack of sleep front - but fruit is good, its all bright colours and yummy tastes. Come on - who doesn't love fruit?
+ Links to my favourite three web pages:
on pears
a webcomic
a manga website for readings scanlations
+ Here is the link to my delicious profile
=Flickr=
+ Number of uploaded images: 32
+ My three favourite images mosaic plates, cup of tea, Nagasaki city sprawl (own); and by others: geisha; cuban cyclist; rabbit face (from my favourites section)
+ Here is the link to my Flickr stream
=thoughts=
So far it's been pretty interesting; learning about these online social/information sharing websites and ho wmany people use them and how/why they post their opinions and information on the web. Besides learning how to operate these sites, my faourite part of MPI104 has been learning a little bit of coding, and all the random, current geeky information that comes up in class. Definately a workshop a look forward to, in a Uni week. Cheers for the 'funness'.
=Blogger=
+ Posts: 8 This includes MPI104 related and theme related. My running theme was 'All Things Japan', which were the most interesting of my posts, about Japanese art and photography; Language skills and TV dramas; Celebrating your birthday overseas. I tried my best to be consistently interesting though... so feel free to read some of the others ^^)
+ Work done on aesthetics: In Template I customised my blog Template (from 'Travel'); where I also adjusted the widths, layout, and text fonts and colours. I tried for a colour scheme that matched up/complemented each part (i.e. text, background).
+ Comments on other blogs (and the links to the comments) can be found on this post - "Miscellaneous post commenting".
+ The tags I used: assessment blog, Birthdays, blogging, blog viewing, celebrating, comments, crucial post, delicious, first post, Flickr, Gifu FC, Gokusen, Hope Maguire, interesting topics, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese drama, language techniques., Matt Barron Lecturer, mpi104_2012, MPI104, New Gallery, Physical Japan, soccer fans, stacks.
+ Other work I've done on blogger: I added gadgets to my sidebars (Fish, MP3 player, Diggs) and below posts bar. I re-arranged how the parts of the blog were set up in "Layout". I designed a favicon for my URL - so that ever time you have my blog URL up, it won't have the orange "B" for the blogger site, but my own symbol linking it visually to my site. I added two more pages to my MPI104 blog, that are URL links to the relating MPI104 Flickr and MPI104 Del.icio.us sites. I called the pages "Flickr PLace" and "MPI Del.ic.ious". In settings I checked on all the options and made sure it was formatted how I would like it - blog description, Header, sub header, language, time zone, commenting. I added personal information on the profile page, about my interests etc.
+ That's about it for blogger. Here is the link: Hope Maguire's Blog
=Del.icio.us=
+ The number of bookmarked web pages (Links) is 14.
+ Why these are of interest to me?- they're my hobbies/interests. Why I found them interesting is why I chose them as stacks: MPI104 - with 6 links (My own MPI104 sites - Flickr; Blog; Masterblog; and three other blogs I found interesting) is all course related, and I find this course interesting, I didn't know so much about these websites before, it's pretty cool :)
Mangamania links - with 3 links to manga websites - because I love Japanese manga, Korean Manhwa, and Chinese (not sure what they call it there) manga. And I thought, you know, if anyone else wanted to find out about it - here's the links to some informative, interesting places.
Fruit alone links - with 5 links to websites about just one specific fruit. Because one day I just suddenly pictured fruit as always being in a fruitbowl and I wanted to separate them up into "just an apple" etc, random yes, I think I was red-lining on the lack of sleep front - but fruit is good, its all bright colours and yummy tastes. Come on - who doesn't love fruit?
+ Links to my favourite three web pages:
on pears
a webcomic
a manga website for readings scanlations
+ Here is the link to my delicious profile
=Flickr=
+ Number of uploaded images: 32
+ My three favourite images mosaic plates, cup of tea, Nagasaki city sprawl (own); and by others: geisha; cuban cyclist; rabbit face (from my favourites section)
+ Here is the link to my Flickr stream
=thoughts=
So far it's been pretty interesting; learning about these online social/information sharing websites and ho wmany people use them and how/why they post their opinions and information on the web. Besides learning how to operate these sites, my faourite part of MPI104 has been learning a little bit of coding, and all the random, current geeky information that comes up in class. Definately a workshop a look forward to, in a Uni week. Cheers for the 'funness'.
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