What have you done version 2.0

Well its come to the end of the term, and quite quickly I might ad. So its come to the post in the blog where I write what I have done.
First ill start with, Flickr. Personally I think out of all of the sites we use in MPI-104, Flickr is the one ill use the most after the class. Not only is it a really good way to share your photos on the net, its also cool to see what other people have done. Another thing its really good for is putting photos into your blog, website or myspace. And it takes next to no time to do.
First choose the photo u want to upload. After you have uploaded the photo, names and tagged it, select the photo. Click the button that says all sizes, select the size you want to use in your blog or website. Then copy and paste the HTML onto your site. Pretty simple and the thing i like about Flickr is you can choose what size photo you want to use. The main Diss advantage is the Free version only allows you to have 3 sets of photos and limits you to 100meg or uploads a month. This is annoying if you have a lot of different photos when it comes to managing them all. But you get what you pay for and for a free image uploaded it works very well and has a lot of cool features.

The Next main website we used in MPI-104 is del.isio.us. This is a site that u use to save links to websites you like or view other peoples links. You can name your links, tag them, group tags with relevant sites and view other peoples tags in your group. The thing I found this site most useful for is working on this class. You can quickly access all the sites used for this class. And unlike the favourites on your computer u can access del.icio.us anywhere u use the Internet. However I found myself not saving alot of links as I not visit many sites on the net, and I found no need to save site like google. One thing I did find it usefull for is saving and sharing pages that are fairly unique to you, like My Blog or flickr.

Last we come to Blogger. I have used Blogger before for other classes but in nothing like what i have done with this class. I have a lot more knowledge of basic HTML, even something as basic as a link is very useful. I have also changed a lot of the look of my blog. I have added a background, font colour, link hover colour, boarded my posts and sidebar, added photos from my flickr and my space videos i have made. I have also put link in my sidebar to my Flickr and Del.icio.us and have a sitemeter and Technorati bitten. I was pretty surprised how much you could actually do to change the look of your bolg.

The 3 websites we use in this class work well together and really give you a online presence. It is also cool to have a open working environment where you can see what others have done. Overall This class has given me a good insight into the many usefull sites out there on the internet.

del.icio.us
flickr
blogger

Site meter

Site meter is a way of keeping track of your page visits on the internet. First you register your details on the Site meter page. After doing this Site meter keeps track of how many people visit your site. But it does more than that. It records how many people visit each day, how long they stay for, how many pages they view on your site and more. The graph below shows the number of people that visited my blog in the past week.


Another interesting thing it can do is make a prediction on how meny hits your site will get in the future, based on how much traffic has already been to your site.



This is a good tool to have on your site. By being able to moniter the traffic and time taken on your page, you can inpruve your site to get the most out of peoples veiwing time. It also helps when selling advertising space on your site. And its pritty cool to see how popular you are. Check out my stats on the link below!! or make your own account on site meter.

MY Page Views

Good and bad websites

Good websites

This is an example of a well set out website. The heading and titles are easy to read, and the links stand out form the background. Everything on the site is well spaced out and easy to read. The choise of font colours work fairly well together and are well seperaited form the background. All the images are bright and the black background makes them stand out on the page. Links change colour when the mouse hovers them so you know what you are selecting. The design its self is pritty simple but works well to premote the event. movement is kept to a minium to help highlight the premotional band photo slideshow.
Overall the page is fairly astheticly pleasing and must of work well considering the event sold out in less than a day. By the way I missed out on tickets so if anyone knows where i can get a ticket let me know.
splendour in the grass

Bad websites

This is possible the best example on the net of how not to make a website. As the site says it is the worst website on the internet. This is true for a number of reasons. For starters it takes to long to load which is frustraiting enough. The colour sceme is terrible and the moving background is annoying. It has pop up ads, possibly the most annoying thing on the internet. Infact it has examples of pritty much everything you shuld not do when making a website. So while it is astheticly terrible it is done to show others making a website things that shuld never be done. That being said these exact thing are all to comonly found while brousing the internet. Perticually on amature websites.
worlds worst website

XML and Rss

XML or Extensible Markup Language, is a markup language that is commonly used on the internet to share data across different systems. It is a free open standed recomended by the World Wide Web Consortium and is designed to be relatively user friendly.
for XML to work it must be well formated and valid. For example if an element has an opening tag with no closing tag and is not self-closing, it is not well-formed. Also if a document contains an undefined tag then it is not Valid and will not be prosessed. more information on XML can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

RSS is a common way to publish frequently updated content on the internet. It is used to share content such as news headlines, blog entries or podcast's. An RSS document is called a feed, web feed or channel and contains summery information form websites that link to articles, other websites or photos. It is possible to make an RSS feed with your favurate websites for used on blogs or other online websites. This can be easily done with RSS reader account with either bloglines or use your google account to set up google reader.