Week13 final assessment

Work done thus far:

Over the past semester we have been creating ourselves a web presence. We have explored the possibilities and other features of google, besides using it as a web seach engine. Then created these blogs and looked at html. After this we looked at flikr and delicious, creating accouts with these. We also looked at templates and how to custumise our blogs, created our athene sites using iweb, looked at counters and RSS along with technorati. Without doing this subject I wouldnt have been aware of all the processes involved in creating all these things and seeing how they work, and just little things like html and counters, I never even knew they existed.

Google-
Here is what I learnt about that week:
Gmail-I liked the sound of Gmail as it was being explained. All the features that it has and the 'online presence', being able to log in anywhere and still have access to all your documents and files. This can be very useful when working as you can do it by distance, eg living in Sydney and working with people in Wagga. The process of creating the account was a bit annoying though, I had to type in my password several times and try to workout what the weird verification letters were.

Google-Overall I find the Google search engine a great way to find information, when you type in a search there are numerousoptions that supply you with information about your topic. However, this can also be quite frustrating though, as you have to select an option that is actually relevant from the thousands that arise. This can be very time consuming and there are so many irrelevant options that come up.

Other products-There are so many other options and products that google has available to use for various occasions, and uses. Some including, maps, directories, groups, Docs, groups, toolbars, note book etc. All of these open upa huge range of new things that can be achieved for the user. I do find that in some cases there can be a bit of an information overload though. There are so many links, graphics, advertising from unrelated sites, these tend to distract from what the user initially had intended to do.


Blogger and html-
This week I learnt how to created a blog, what they could be used for and how to use them. There are still many features that I am yet to explore eg all the dfferent gadgets that are available to use. Since creating it, I have added a photo slide show, put an "about me" links to uploads from my delicious and flikr accounts, changed the look of my blog, the colour and header. When looking at html I learnt about how to make links using the -a href code, also how html can be used to create and customise webites and pages.

Flikr
This week I created my flikr account. I have found it very interesting. Its a great way to keep all your photos together online so you can have access to them where ever you go, provided you have a computer handy. I learnt how to create sets so you can better organsise all your photos and how to join groups and add contacts. Its a great way to share your own images with other people also as they can access your photo post stream. Since I created my account Ive uploaded photos into 8sets with about of 54 photos and videos in total.


Delicious
Delicious is a website for saving and sharing book marks. Like flikr, delicious is online so you can access it where ever you go. I now have about 40 book marks in total, some of which ar eof class mates blogs and others are sites that I find interesting such as some about "poi" or fire spinning and drawing and photoshop techniques.

Templates
WHen looking at templates I found that it is a fairly easy way of changing the look of your blog. The layout of your blog can be changed, along with the background and the font styles and colours. However I also learnt that you cannot change the content of you blog this way.

Athene websites
For this week I learnt about how to create my athene website using the aid of iweb and fetch. I made my pages on whats called a domain file which is then "published to a folder" consisting of a site file and a folder containing information about the domain pages. These are then dragged into the poublic folder on fetch, and the athene account is refreshed, which allows every one to have acces to it.

Counters RSS
On both my blog and my website I added RSS feeds and counters also making a google reader account. I learnt how RSS feeds allow you to get updates websites without you having to look them up all the time, you can just subscribe to them and store them in google reader. I also learnt about the process of generating the javascripts by getting the RSS feeds from websites.

Technorati
I made a technorati account also. It allows you to search for other blogs on the internet (see this weeks pot for more detail of it application). Like the proccess of making all the other accounts for flikr etc. this was a bit of an annoying process. Getting a user name and password that was acceptable and then making sure all of the right boxes were ticked, then waiting for the site to acctually work...any way I got it in the end.

Technorati

Today we looked at Technorati. It was such a frustrating process for just about everyone in the class. We weren't able to claim our accounts. 

Technorati is a blog digest. It searches all blogs and reads all of the HTML code in a blog posting. Here is a link to Lucia's blog to give her authority. 

Here is what Technorati says about Technorati:

Technorati is the leading monitor of the world of weblogs. Technorati is a real-time search engine that is the largest source of fresh information about the global and local conversations going on all across the Web. Technorati allows you to find out what people are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics and, other areas of interest, on the Internet in real time.

RSS

Here is a link to my updated  iweb   athene account, I added a counter and an RSS feed. 

I also added these on my blog. 

Random's Myspace

Here is a link to some random's myspace....I thought it looked pretty awsome!!!http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=14592270

I got it

Finally remembered what my log in for flikr was....if your reading this you will probably be hanging your head in shame...I know, I should have these things locked into my brain by now, well you would think so, but sadly no, I dont=(

Frusteration

Why did i have to make soooo many accounts???? They all have different log in details.....some only differ slightly, but which one is which???? Which password, how did I put my user name down?.....kayla.outhred? kouthred? kouthr01? It spells frusteration just about every time!!!

FTP and Athene

Today we learnt about how to change our athene accounts using Fetch.
You can make a web page in word and save it out as a html extention, this can then be dragged into to fetch data base which makes it public.
Here is a link to my iWeb site.

Work done thus far

So far in this subject I have learnt about the different applications that google has to offer suchas google images, videos, maps etc. I have about 5posts on my blog they correspond to what we have done in class each week and then there is this post. This is a link to my delicious post. My flikr post and My Template post.

On my blog I have changed the layout, the background colour, the heading font and added an interesting image to the heading. Also, I changed the colours of the fonts of the headings of posts. I also added an about me to my blog.

Here is a link to a commment I made on Rachel's blog about the background of her blog.
Here is a link to a comment I made on Megan's blog

On Delicious I have got 32 bookmarks, most of which are of other class mates accounts.

Here is a link to a site about poi, which I find really interesting -Here is another
Here is a link to a cool site about hand drawing

On Flikr I have about 16 images and videos. Three of my favourite are: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kouthred/3422802492/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kouthred/3367227212/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kouthred/3422005115/

Templates

The advantages of using templates is that you can fairly easily change the appearance of your page to suit you. The layout of your blog can be changed, along with the background and the font styles and colours. The content cannot be changed using templates. Accessibility in a webpage is important as it means it easy for the majority of users to interact with site.

Flickr

For one of our tasks in MPI104 2009 we had to look at Flickr. Flickr is an online community in the form of an extremely popular picture and video sharing website, which allows you to upload up to 200 images on a free account. I have uploaded photos from my Facebook and from the internet, one of the images was by an artist called Alexia Sinclair. I like being able to have all your photos in one place and because its online I can access it from where ever I go. I find the technical side of it rather frusterating at times, but I love what you can do with it creatively. It'd be a great way to share all your works with others.

View My Flickr Account.

Week5 Delicious

Today I made a delicious account. Delicious is a website for saving and sharing bookmarks. It can be very useful as it is online meaning you can use it from any computer, anywhere, anytime. 

Youtube is a webpage that uses tag links . Photo bucket, Myspace and Facebook also use this system of tagging. 

This is my first post on my new blog for MPI104. 

I am a first year animation student at Wagga Wagga university and I am staying at South Campus, near the juvi. I have moved from Wangi Wangi in Lake Macquarie near Newcastle(norhth of Wagga), and am excited about and, at the same time daunted about the next few years living away from home to complete my degree.