So I finished my hectic week 7 and I was going to blog all about it but ive just spent the last few days being a cool guy and forgot completely about it. I wasnt sure if we were meant to write a blog for this week but heres one anyways. On friday I handed in 3 assessment and then i worked all weekend long. By the time monday came around I was ready to relax. I spent most of this week doing the things I love. Sleeping, xbox, and hanging out with some friends. Only bad thing is that this week cant go for 2 or 3. Oh well I suppose monday is a public holiday so ill be looking foward to that. Any ways ive only got time for a quick blog today. I have to clean my house in preparation for some visitors. My room is terrible. lol Hope youe enjoying your weeks as much as I am!
So I wasn't quite sure if we were meant to do 2 post this week including the one for our rationale so I figured I would be better safe then sorry. This week has been the worst/hardest week of uni I have ever had. It started off with an oral being due which I am quite sure did not go so well. Followed by having 3 assignments all due this friday. Fortunately today I managed to have one assignment complete which was the network media production A. I posted it online and immediately set out to finish the other two. One of the two I have left requires me to use photoshop which is really troublesome. On tuesday I could not find a spare computer and I really needed to get some work done on it. Im banking all my marks on tomorrow by going into uni early to find a computer. I know exactly what I want to do to it I just need to find a computer. This assignment I am not too worried about. The final assignment that I have due is this stupid annotated bibliography for international studies. I have to choose 6 references and talk about them. I found one reference and talked about it and thought wow this assignment is in the bag. It won't take me more then 2 or 3 hours. 4 hours later and i had only found two more sources to write about and I immediately regretted my comment. The assignment is fairly straight forward I just need to find the relevant information.
All in all this has been such a terrible week. I have been trying to think of way in which to celebrate (time that could of been better spent working on my assignments). What I came across could possibly be the best celebration ever! Here.Just get naked. Haha but by this time tomorrow all my assignments will either be done or late and I will be feeling good about myself. The week of uni break is going to be very nice.
Peace
For my Production A Networked Media assignment I decided to create an online exhibition. The topic I chose to create this exhibition on was Anime and I decided that I would write reviews for various anime I had watched. At first I considered doing a series of blog posts but I honestly just do not like blogs. My next option was to create a website which I thought would be a better idea because I was interested in learning HTML. My main aim when creating this website was for it to be as straightforward as possible so the reader could get the information they wanted without any difficulties. In order to do this I had a standard black background, and an easy to read font. I set it out in a user friendly format with the links to the left side of the page, a heading picture up the top and all the main information down the middle. I also decided that I would link all my pictures back to their original sources so that people could navigate to these sites and view other pictures of interest of download the specific picture if they wanted to. I also decided to add a video down the bottom of all the pages to create interest and give the reader a bit of understanding of the reviewed shows.
I have also created links to other sites in the area that my website relates to. For example I linked it to an online anime streaming site and some sites that give specific information about anime. I also linked it to my blog because if I ever did post something like this online, if viewers liked my reviews they might also like my blog and could visit it.
I have visited quite a lot of anime review sites in my time because I generally like to look at other people’s opinions before I start to watch one. This goes for many other areas of Media, as I like to look at reviews for movies, music, games etc. The thing that I really dislike a lot about these sites is their layout is sometimes really congested. They have a lot of ads and links happening and then the information is in a little box that you have to squint your eyes at to read. I took this into account when I made my website so the information was nice and easy to read.
Another thing that I do not like about other review sites is that critics are usually really harsh. Speaking for myself and others that I have talked to about this, critics just seem to only find the bad points in things. They seem to overlook a lot of the positives. With my reviews I tried to get a happy medium between talking about the good and the bad points in all my reviews.
This was pretty much the first time that I had used HTML so when I started the production of this website my skills were non-existent. I picked up things slowly and had a lot of trouble trying to get certain parts of code to work. There was this one time that I spent 2 hours in the tute trying to figure out how div tags worked. By the end of the tute I just had no idea what the problem was an no one could shed any light on it. When I got home later that day I opened it up again and low and behold it was working. I also had a lot of difficulty trying to embed youtube videos in my html. I was looking up all this code on various tutorial sites. I could not get it to work so I asked a friend and he told me that youtube is very HTML friendly. You just right click on the video you want and an option comes up to copy embed code. You then paste this code on the HTML and your set. Whilst working on my website I encountered many problems like this and through online tutorials and help from classmates I slowly started to understand HTML a lot better. One website which gave me a lot of help was called w3schools. It pretty much had most of the information you could ever need to create both HTML and CSS aspects of a webpage.
Some of things that I would of liked to have done on my website was to create some drop down menus or some kind of javascript. For example a rollover feature where the picture gets larger or some sort of user search directory. I have also been working on making me own anime video compiled of different clips from different animations. I have been working on this for 2 months in my spare time but its no where near finished. These kinds of things I would of liked to have incorporated but due to skill level and lack of time I had to make some choices to make finishing the site realistically possible.
Overall I am very happy with how my final product turned out. Although I did no manage to finish it in the sense of doing everything I wanted, I created a polished product with what I could manage. I have also gained a greater understand on how HTML works even if it is not my favourite thing in the world.
Ohayoo Gozaimas
Or at least thats what I'd say to any of you out there who speak Japanese. Thursdays is really my long day of uni. Wake up at 7 30 to get ready. Drive from yass to Canberra start at 9 30 and finish at 5. Only to come home as quick as I can to go to work. I decided to skip my lecture this afternoon so i could have a little down time before work, but i find myself sitting here writing my blog anyways.
After spending the last week trying to figure out my assignment I have finally started to make some progress towards it looking half good. Not as much time has been put into it as i would of liked but what can you do when nearly every class I attend has an assignment due in week 7 (in some cases 2). We looked at each others blogs today in class and I have decided that in the weeks break of week 8 I am going to try and stylize my blog better. At the moment its just so simple and honestly rubbish looking. It needs a change from the bland colours and simple format. That being said I can only do as much as my technical skills allow. The good thing is that after next week I will have had 5 assessment items out of the way. During the second half of this semester I will be able to start paying more attention to things such as my blog. As with many assignments I have done I always find myself wishing i had just one more week to make it better. So for the next week I will be sleeping, going to uni, going to work and in all my spare time inbetween I will be working on all my various assignments. Hopefully I can get them all done and of good quality before the dreaded deadline.
How many of you have been sitting down writing some HTML and for some reason none of it seems to work? I decided to give my assignment a start the other day and it was going along quite nicely. I was just doing small things here and there putting in some content etc. Then all of a sudden a huge list of problems occured and it made me realise that HTML just decides somettimes if it wants to work or not. Ill save a bunch of code and it will be all good. Then next time i will open it up and there will be a problem. In class today I spent 2 hours trying to get div tags to work. I looked online. Didnt work. I looked at a friends. Didnt work. I asked for help from the tutor. Didnt work. Got another guy from the class to help. He couldnt figure it out. I leave the class feeling utterly defeated. Get home and decide to email the problem to the tutor so she could look at it. Open up my file in safari and for some unknown reason it decided that it wanted to work now. I mean i wasted 2 hours of my life on some code that just decided that it didnt want to work until i got home. Damn you HTML. Other then these massive struggles i have been having the process of making a webpage is rather interesting. Choosing a topic, finding pictures and videos, matching backgrounds with colors and fonts. Its been pretty engaging even if i have been "borrowing" my code from everywhere i can get my hands on it. Well im off to bed now but hopefully tomorrow my code decides it wants to work and i can get some solid work happening on my website.
This week started with my beloved bass amp breaking. After much sorrow its been sent off and I am still wondering when it will be sent back to me. Not the thing I wanted to be worrying about in between uni classes. Tuesday brought my first long day of the week. Early classes not many breaks and a long shift at work straight after uni. I have to admit during our network Media lecture I was finding it rather hard to pay attention. All this talk about HTML, CSS, XML, API, REMIX, AND MASH UP really does my head in. I mean yes I do find it rather cool but every code I seem to touch just breaks.
On came wednesday my day off during the week. I tried to get as much work as I could done on this day but like many others I didn't really achieve much. Which makes me panic cause I have a boatload of stuff to do by week 7 and its going to mean I put in some extreme hours soon. Wednesday night I played in my tough football final and we lost.... Not much to say there except... well we lost. Wednesday night just freed itself up for me which means ill be cramming more uni work in there.
Thursdays seen my next long day of the week. Another early start (doesn't help that I have to drive from Yass everyday,) and I had a Japanese test in the morning. Im pretty sure the test involved all the content that I was a bit iffy about so it will be interesting to see the results. Had my network media tute in the middle of the day which completely did my head in. I spent two hours trying to get a div tag to work properly. I managed to make it half work but couldnt get it all happening. Then a lecture in the afternoon and another long night at work.
My weekend saw me work every night, including tonight. Today is going to be a big session for me trying to get some work done. Starting with this blog then moving onto my Project A assignment. Im so happy tomorrow is a holiday cause I know I really need the time off to get some of my work under control.
Until next time.
yanR
So yet another week of uni has passed, im sitting in my room on a sunday and thinking to myself THE BLOG. All week I have thought about putting another post up here but it generally takes me until the last minute to achieve any thing. During this week we learnt about HTML, XML and CSS. Pretty much these are just a bunch of fancy acronyms to try and make the www all cool. The best thing with acronyms is that people always figure out a way to make them funny. This ensures that we will all learn them very fast. I mean I definitely know How To Meet Ladies so some would say im rather proficient in some forms of HTML. But seriously HTML stands for Hyper Test Markup Language. Its the way in which you write text so a machine reads it and converts what it sees into what you are trying to create. Possibly the best thing about HTML and the web, in my opinion, is how you can view the source code on every page you go to. By clicking on the source code you can have a look at the HTML that was used to create the site. This is a great way to learn and brush up on some HTML skills of your own. We also learnt a but about XML which means Extensible Markup Language and CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheet. We didn't really go into XML much but CSS is a style sheet which you can use to format your webpage.
HTML + CSS = Magic
Whilst on my journey to learn more about HTML I found a really useful website. It has a list of HTML tags, examples, ideas and even has a color list. The link can be found HERE.
After learning about HTML in the lecture and thinking OMG, WTH, ROFLcopter (acronyms people acronyms this is the age of technology and shortening everything down) I turned up to the tute knowing it was going to be a long 2 hours. We had to write a proposal for an assignment in HTML making a very basic webpage. This proved to be frustrating as like many other times I have written HTML I got the code wrong somewhere and had to scour my page looking for it. Finally I found what was wrong and it ended up looking half decent.
Any ways its about time that I go put some time into readings and readings and probably .... some more readings. Remember to close you tags people. It could save hours off your life.
Peace
