Muddiest Point: Week 9 (10/27)

I have been attempting to create a webpage, just to experiment with some of the HTML codes. I have been unsuccessful at putting an image that is saved on my computer on to the page. I have been using the code . However, this is not working, is there another way to add images or am I just using the wrong code?

Week 9 (10/27) Comments

I commented on Ashley's blog:

http://laine05.blogspot.com/2009/10/reading-notes-for-unit-8.html?showComment=1256502377896#c5369359767960863715

and Rachel's blog:

http://rachelnashintroit.blogspot.com/2009/10/unit-8-reading-notes.html?showComment=1256502732434#c4796139529299597555

Readings: Week 9 (10/27)

HTML Tutorial- I liked this site it was very easy to understand. I really liked the “try it yourself” links they really helped me to see how the different codes worked. I was amazed at how many different things you can do with HTML, I assumed that it was just the very basic bold, italic, etc. This is definitely a website I will use if I need to create any kind of webpage, but I don’t think I could remember all of the different tricks and codes!
There were a few things, however, that I did not really understand. For instance the attributes description was very vague; I am also not sure why you would need a comment that is not going to be displayed. The section I had the most trouble with was the images, where do you get the images to use? Do they have to be on another website?

HTML Cheatsheet- This is another site that will be very helpful for creating a webpage. Though I am glad I read the other article first as it offers more explanation. This site just lists the codes and what they do, so alone it is a bit confusing.

CSS Tutorial- I’m not sure that I understand how this is any easier than HTML, they seem to be pretty much the same thing. All of the extra detail you can do with CSS are very cool, but is it possible to do some of them in HTML format, such as changing the font?

Beyond HTML- This was an interesting idea. I think they had some interesting ways of rebuilding a website so that it was easy to understand and helpful for doing research.

Muddiest Point: Week 8 (unit 7)

I'm not sure that I understand why PURL is any better than regular URLs. It seems that if the creators do not keep up with updating a URL, the site will be lost just as URLs are when they move. Also, with this systems it seems unlikely that the more unusual and lesser used pages will be issued a PURL, and they often seem to be the ones lost as they move more often.

Week 8 (unit 7) comments

I commented on Natalie's blog:

http://introtoinfo.blogspot.com/2009/10/week-7-readings.html?showComment=1255796988601#c2811159543457324241

and Christa's blog:

http://christaruthcoleman2600.blogspot.com/2009/10/readings-for-week-seven-or-is-it-eight.html?showComment=1255897110529#c5575533014474820805

Readings: Week 8 (unit 7)

Internet infrastructure- This article was very interesting, I never really knew the specifics of how webpages worked. I also liked the fact that it was easy to understand the article. All of the examples were very helpful in order to understand the topics that were presented in the article.

Dismantling Integrated Library Systems-I’m not sure if I fully understand this article. It almost felt like I cam into the middle of something instead of starting from the beginning. I think it may have been the fact that they used a lot of jargon and expected the reader to be very familiar with these systems, but I was rather confused.

Video- A lot of people use Google! I didn’t realize how many until they showed it visually with the globe. The whole video showed me how little I actually knew about Google overall. For instance I didn’t realize that they were involved in charitable works, though I would be interested in what the Google Foundation does, they never really said. I have also never heard of Orkut, but the time this was filmed was around when Facebook was coming out so I wonder if it just couldn’t compete. I had also never heard of Google news, however, I’m not a big follower of the news. In general Google seems to have a lot of different projects going and it seems like it would be a cool company to work for.

Muddiest Point: Week 6

I do not have a muddiest point for this week

Assignment #4

Video:
http://www.screencast.com/users/saj52/folders/Jing/media/598f40be-bd43-4165-9acd-3ee36211fad8

Screen capture demo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42356896@N02/3999002303/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42356896@N02/3999781596/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42356896@N02/3999790488/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42356896@N02/3999053371/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42356896@N02/3999077231/

Assignment #3

Here is my CiteULike library!

http://www.citeulike.org/user/saj5000