Module Three

HTML

Record your thoughts about html – do you feel a sense of achievement?

Over the last week I enjoyed learning about the advantages of html, and learning how there were many important commands that allowed you to develop your page. Like morse code, looking at what you write in html is highly important because if you do not type in the right code to the page you will succesfully mess your page up.

Using all the commands and going through and completing the whole 26 lessons first, then I went back and picked the easiest ones to remember and put them on webct ipresentations part of the Curtin website. I don’t feel a sense of achievement because my coding is rather not 100% tidy, entering the codes into the script and waited to see the outcome, if it worked it worked if it didn’t I would start again.

Do I think I have learned something? Yes, but I do think I can learn more and develop what I already have started to progress in. I do not understand CSS and I will be honest with you, I think it’s most likely easy to understand.

What are the differences between html and blogging?

Html is a form of coding that requires you not to only input the correct code but also validate that code correctly whilst creating the webpage via progress. Blogging is a direct dynamic way to enter code and create a page on the web, I prefer blogging over html because it’s easy and requires very little to maintain it.

From what I learnt about validating the code, I really made a serious mess of my html page, but I guess that is cool because it’s the only page that I have ever created, I pray that the lovely Cynthia forgives me for my lack of knowledge on this.

Optional ‘standards’ task:

Make a summary of what you believe are the 5 most important ‘rules’ for writing online. Think about any differences between the articles: for example, is the advice in Nielsen’s paper — written in 1997 – still current?

My Summary of 5 most important rules for writing online.

1. When establishing your web page please use concise and clear language.

Clear language is the most essential part of good web writing, developing your skills here is essential because you have a more wider audience than just one person viewing what you write. People want clear and concise language, and language they can assimilate and take in without any hassles of interpretation.

2. Users want there information quickly

When I visit webpages, I hope that many of the links of the valueable information that I am seeking work, what a great dissapointment when studying into geneology is the fact of some links on certain sites just go 404 File Not found, yes people do move on but there needs to be a update added by the current site to maintain the sites credibility.

Organisation is a key aspect of the site, I want a clear cut picture on what they offer for information as I seek it not be moved around from site to site searching, if people are capable of providing the truth it should be able to be said in one clearly defined website.

3. Do all your links actually work?

Links are as vital to the website as they provide clear background evidence towards what the site is about, what the sites ideas are and where if any further information can be found to enhance the sites current information.

But not only those types of links are essential, but graphic links, I have visited some people’s personal webpages and yet you still come across the vast few people who do not fix up imageshack.us photo’s that have been taken down off image shack and they let the site dry up.

Their is a gradual annoyance towards sites that links don’t work, it really comes into a category of unprofessional web site design and building. Maybe their should be some sort of code that allows admins to delete webpages, users have a alert that their webpage needs to be fixed within 30days or the website will be closed. This in turn would save people time, and also saved the load of amateur behavior of not fishing websites or keeping them updated with current and vital information.

Links really should be treated as valueable as the information that is contained on the website itself.

4. Are your pictures small enough?

Within the older days of dialup this was a significant issue as the pages of your website would take time to develop similar to a photo copier. Todays current enforcement of download limits it is yet again a vital component towards a succesful fast web page requires the element of succesfully placed photographs and graphics, that allow the page to flow freely.

Noticing on many sites that I have viewed that people get to side tracked on how great they can make their webpage yet have very little viewers because they forget the basics of webpage design. Very important to read about website design before creating and co-relate that information into your site and graphics is the key element to add the visual effect towards keeping hits happening to a decline in visits.

5. Is your content significant?

Having the website content significant is a great deal towards keeping the happy person entertained with the goal of what the website is about and the value of information that is contained on it. Depending on what website you have created and what purpose that website proposes.

Content is a highly significant aspect of website design, you need to constantly change and update your content depending on why the website was created originally, it’s like many sites take constant hits because of the value of the information on that site.

For example ,  Alex Jones Site Infowars.com, vast majority of content on this site is constantly changing as they find more information to spread the word across to their listeners. Content is many different subjects that are happening in the gray field of US Politics, but yet again it deals with one main core aim Of US Politics. They need valid content to be constantly getting hits, but on the other hand needs to push truth of information in order to keep valid listeners to the radio show that uses the website to push there web agenda.

Impact of Nielsen’s paper — written in 1997.

Nielsen’s paper was the building block to current webpage design, this was written in 1997 but in todays webpages you can still use the same core aspects of this paper. It not only developed the same ideals, it has encouraged development towards redefining what is good about the Internet and what is bad.

This paper can be defined as the building block for a variety of reasons that are current with such webpages as top 5 conventions of web pages by Dennis G. Jerz as alot of Nielson’s paper are contained on this current website.

Nielson’s paper not only encouraged the early net but allowed people to pick up on his ideas and use them to push the World Wide Web along in development.

LOG ENTRY:
Record the url of your uploaded page in your weblog

After validating my webpage I uploaded it to the ipresentations area.

http://webct.curtin.edu.au/305033_b/student_pres/Group05/index.html

 

Blogs

In this task with your current experience in this unit, reflect upon what you have read about blogs.

LOG ENTRY:
In your learning log, record your thoughts. Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs? This blog entry is an opportunity to tell us what you really think of blogging!

The attention economy is what blogging has succesfully developed over time, it has not only allowed many areas of the community to get in touch and develop the infosphere but also allows people to communicate into the infosphere by inputting there knowledge online to allow  them to share there own insight on the web.

Todays info technology world we saw the cam recorder develop from it’s early stages and now plays a important part in web pages via webcam and we can also remember how it developed  and started in the world of recording news stories and current and various issues, we then saw how this could be added into your website to develop it a fraction further by giving windows media examples.

Really see blogging as a development of the web matrix, blogging as a element allows the user to give your own personal views and development out on the web than just live in social isolation, it does have it’s positives but also has it’s negatives that someone still can gain a detailed profile of you and aspects of your life, so the element of security still has to be in  you.

Blogging is a great development of the web as it gives you the most intimate interaction with web users, but you clearly have to take on board the most appropriate rules of web development that include the top 5 conventions of web pages by Dennis G. Jerz.  You really have to take into consideration that there are many aspects of blogging and to entertain a audience with clear concise information is vastly better and more intelligent than just creating a blog out of thin air.

Blogs are a project that need to be heavily reasearched into if you with to take it to such standards of citizen journalism, if it’s a simple blog about you please just consider the elements of Dennis.G.Jerz report as it will allow you to develop a professional standard threw your blog. 

Many blogs I visit have to do with my interest level on many different subjects,  may it be North American Union to how video games affect people, and if I need a world wide view on all gaming I would go to other countries to plod threw the data that is presented.

But overall at the start of this project I listed some valueable points for bloggers and I can still see that the same points are really indication on what we need to do as a factor of creation of web blogs ensure that you stick by all methods and research to ensure that your blog is unstandable.

Web 2.0

Now you’ve read about Web 2.0 what applications or “services” do you think are web 2.0 indicative?

Web 2.0 sites that are indicative.

Doing a search on google for web 2.0 and stumbled across a variety of responses including this website that seem to show you alot of growing web 2.0 sites that are already set up http://www.go2web20.net/ .

Deeper understanding about web 2.0, I looked further into descriptions and came across great deal of information with regards to the development of web 2.0 but it’s actually what we already have come across.

Many types of use for web 2.0 come in many forms of  blogs,wiki,multi-media sharing services, content syndication, podcasting and tagging services. (1)

Great document promoting active use and implications of that use in education.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/300024/What-is-web-20-Ideas-technologies-and-implications-Paul-Anderson (1)

TASK:
Take a look at the Internet Communications Blinklist we have set up for you as a bookmark site – compared to a html version think about the format and usability of a website/html written list with this same information.

LOG ENTRY:
Whats the difference between the two? What are the benefits? Which format do you think you would like better and why? 

There is a difference between the two sites is that Internet Communications Blinklist  is clearly defined and logically set out and more appealing than the second site that is basically boring set out.  Noticing that one site was Web 2.0 showed it had more capabilities and also gave more in depth options to the site and allowed the site to be set up in a more logical defined manner. 

Advancements have now been achieved with Web 2.0 than what was capable with html, these advancements have given clear cut capabilites to include various aspects that extend the power of  your web project or production.

Html does not offer as many advanced features that web 2.0 now offers, html is old technology but still is a part of todays web project world. The variable diffence is that  one offers more advanced features than the other and that the future is now being placed on web 2.0 protocol and closely developing into web 3.0 in not to distant future.

Learning about the advantages of blogging and now reading about web 2.0 protocols, you can now conclude that their are far more appropriate measures and uses of the capabilites of the web by using this technology and by doing so gain some of it’s best advantages.

References

(1)  Anderson, P. (2007). What is Web 2.0? Ideas technologies and implications for education. Retrieved July 6, 2008, from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf