What I have learnt

What a semester! During the class of MPI I have learnt a lot about browsing, surfing and building websites.

We started out by looking at google and what else it has to offer besides a website search engine and well it had all of the following things to offer:
- Search engine for websites
- Search engine for Images fro websites
- Search engine for videos from websites
- Detailed maps of the world including, streets and business
- Google News, covering the world news all in the one spot
- Google groups
- Gmail (which we signed up for, what is awesome about gmail is that it will save documents within the email site so as long as you have the internet you have your documents you are working on.)
- And many more programs

After looking at google we moved on to look at were websites are stored and how they are created. A web page is stored as a file/s in a directory on a webs server, each page is made up of HTML (hypertext Markup Language) this is were basic tags such as
< title > and < body > are used to define and create certain parts of a webpage.

After signing up for a gmail account and how websites are created we started looking at blogs and why people use them, Each blog has a purpose generally it is a personal blog (about an individuals life.) or a commercial blog (reviews on commercial products.) however it is defiantly not limited to those two things. As a class each of us set up a blogspot account and started using this a revision and communication tool for the MPI 104 subject.

We went on to make accounts for Flickr (a photo and video sharing website) and Delicious (web book marking website.) These accounts are then updated regularly.

During week 6 we started to look at CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) it is a style sheet language used to describe the presntation of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the seperation of document content from document presentation.

We started working on live websites by creating HTML documents in a simple text editor, Microsoft word and iWeb, to make each website live we used an FTP, this stands for File transfer Protocol and is used to exchange and manipulate files over an internet protocol computer network such as the internet.

In week 10 we look at different counters and set them up on both our web page and personal blog page. During this week we also looked at RSS (Really Simple Syndication) An RSS document includes full or summarised text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

And finally we learnt about PING and Technorati, PING is an acronym for Packet Internet Groper, this is a computer program that forwards data packets to check the quality of a link or verify the connection of a machine to the internet.
Tchnorati specialises in searching all blogs, by reading all of the HTML code in a blog posting and tracks the activity around the blog or post such as inbound and outbound links. Technorati then ranks blogs and gives them authority.

Last week of uni

This week of Uni has been insane!!! You think your well organised then BOOM!!! Its just a good thing its interesting!!

Technorati

Technorati Profile

FTP....

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol - This is a program that sends data from a local computer to the network server. During this lesson we have used various programs that will allow us to place pages on out Athene accounts.

Fetch was the first program used, this was simple it was just a matter of dragging and dropping our word HTML file into this program and opening up out Athene web page.

We then went on to a more exciting program iweb, this is a simple program that is very easy to use (with exceptions to saving the files)... I am looking forward to completing my web page.

MPI 104.... What a course!

For years i thought i was pretty switched on when it came to surfing the net... i was so young and naive there was so much for me to learn at basic level, luckily i choose MPI 104 as an elective as i have learnt a lot.
I have learnt the extent of google and all of its applications, I have created my own blogger site, we got shown some awesome cool websites like flickr and delicious which i think are great! But you can not go past building a website from very scratch this has to be the most exciting part f the class!!!

Holidays

I now understand why it is called mid semester break rather then holidays... There is still a whole lot of uni work still to be done!!!

TEMPLATES

I am so glad that we are able to change the colours and fonts of out blog pages! it was easy and we don't have to use the standard website colours! Here is one of the links to some HEX colour codes that i used

The main advantage of CSS is that it is kept separate from the web content, tis limits the risk of changing the content.
In templets the Fonts, colours, and applications can be changed, however the boarder sizes and template layouts needs to be changed in CSS HTML.

Accessibility is important when creating web design, A website that is successful will communicate clear information to the viewer. To be accessible a website needs to be easy to navigate and effective use of visual media such as text, colours and images.

In my blog today i changed all the colours and fonts in templates and my boarder sizes in CSS HTML