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!!