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
So now that I have arranged my blog a bit better I figure its time to get down to business.
Some of you may be thinking to yourself, why did you choose blogger? Well it's a good question and I put alot of thought into making my final decision on which site I was going to use to write my blogs. Firstly there was all the information that Michael Honey gave us in the lectures. He named four potential blog sites that we could look at mentioning Wordpress to be a bit more customizable but trickier to use, down to tumblr which is easy to use but give you much less choice. Considering the fact that I'm a first time blogger I did not think that I would venture into trying any thing too difficult. I read over the unit outline a fair bit and Typepad was seeming like the best choice. This was until I turned up for my first tutorial for the unit. There was alot of discussion within my tutorial group as to which site was best for hosting our blogs. There seemed to be a fairly even spread over the four sites that were mentioned in the lecture. People had chosen tumblr for its simplicity while others had gone for Wordpress because the other three did not have as many options as they would like. My tutor Sharon had signed up for three of the sites just to give us a look in on how they operated. At this stage my mind was made up on using typepad until another member of the class talked about how she personally felt that Typepad did not get as much traffic as the other sites on the list and was less search engine friendly. This gave me even more things to think about. In the end, as you would have noticed already, I signed up for blogspot. Mainly because its simple to use, has a moderate range of customization and is a fairly popular blogging site.
All that being said I am still trying to get a good design happening on my page. If any of you blog readers out there see something you think looks absolutely appalling please leave me a comment and telling me why and I may change it. I do not usually have a knack for these kinds of things and any feedback would be greatly appreciated in helping me make a blog that will hopefully stand up to all the assessment criteria.
Oh and add me to your blog roll. I know you want to =)
Welcome to my blog.
First of all I would like to say that this is my first ever attempt at blogging. So you will probably notice alot of change in the general layout, colouring etc. over the next few days to weeks.
I have joined the world of blogging due to a course that I am studying at University of Canberra, Networked Media Productions.
