3 blogs...

# 1 Working title Films
I would recommend reading blog titled " working title films" dated 13th August
This blog looks at the "working title" website and gives a detail analysis of the layout, links and navigating patterns. I found this tute intresting and therefore think this blog should sum up that lesson.
# 2 HTML/ CSS
This blog looks at the program "textwrangler", I foudn this program confusing at 1st but after a 2 hour tute on it, it became clear that writing HTML is easy. I gave a little explaination in the blog but its straight to the point.
# 3 Datavisualisation
This blog is continual over a few weeks as I chose to do it for my 2nd assessment, datavisualisation is a way of showing data using graphs, charts and images. I discussed ideas about my assessment, even had a link to google maps.

Final:
Keeping a blog of each week has become useful and helpful. I have been able to look at the to recall ideas and help me study of the quiz, its the same as writing in a book but i have never used a blog before and i think its more helpful and a way for the future!

ASSESSMENT #2

Rationale: I used powerpoint to display my data and google docs ( spreadsheets and word docs) to collect and graph my infomation. I gathered infomation about my average week, music, travel time and countries ive visited it. I used hyperlinks and links to webistes in the presentation. Datavisualisation makes it easier to view lots of infomation in an eye catchy way! I collected data about myself and then compared some of the data with infomation found on websites and other media sources, the conclusions draw from this infomation make it clear that advertising and other makreting plans work and I, as a Web user are attracted to.

Datavisualisation

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, defined as information which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information. Just continued with my assessment on datavisualisation, which included gathering more infomation about myself and the put into grapgs and tables!

Assessment #2

I have spent the past few days gathering data about myself, anything from my average week ( including sleep patterns), to websites used this year and countries % ive visited...
I will continue to gather more data and find a good way to present it, im thinking blogger or tumblr agian!

MASHUP's and API

In class this week, we looked at google map and how we can link flickr to it by connecting out photos to the world and people can see where they were taken.
Google maps

Twittervision- a way for people to see what photos are online and comment. Constant up- to date feeds
-Newsmap
retrivr- RSS feed conecpts
anazing what people put online and how meany people wil comment on each others photo, views and statements..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13t0AyVGjlk
My fav video on youtube!

DATAVISUALISATION

colours,shapes,size and the make up of different sites.. Wefeelfine by johnothan Hariss, was a site we looked at, it was rather intresting the stuff people post online! I have chosen to do this for my 2nd assessment, im gathering data on everything I do, from books, music and steps i take in a day.. Eventually i will put it into graphs and tables and post online.

HTML/CSS

In the lecture we learnt about HTML and CSS, in class this week we used a program called "text wrangler" to write a website, this piticular website was on icecream sandwiches. We had to use codes and patterns such as <>, {}, =, etc to write, we used color codes to color the page and font,etc. Hugly interesting and next week will look deeper into HTML.

Assessment Rationale

Olympic Hockey 2008

Target Market:
Hockey fans, people interested in following how the Australian Hockey Teams ( Hockeyroos and Kookaburras) went during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Navigation:
Tumblr includes links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. This is not unlike any other blog site but I just found it simpler.
Video: linked videos from youtube to tumblr hockey blogsite
Quotes: included a motivational quote from Hockey Australia website
Photos: All photos are from the 2008 Beijing Olympic website

Process:
While researching Australian hockey results, I found that I couldn't find all the information in one place, my blog allows for this, it has details on all the preliminary round along with videos, photos and details on semi-finals and ranking results.

Layout:
Tumblr: There were many layouts to choose from but I went with the basic top-to-bottom scroll down layout, it gives flow to my web page as my blog is an ongoing feed with frequent updates. I went with a basic theme of only a few colors as not to distract the reader from the information.

Extras:
Major problem: I wanted my information in reverse chronological order, this problem was easily overcome by going into advanced setting and changing that dates on all my posts so that preliminary results were read first and semi-final results were last.

WEB 2.0

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Working title films...

Working Title Films

Target Market:
- Anyone who enjoys films or is interested in up-coming films produced by working Title Productions, trailers and ratings are posted on the website for net users to read/watch.

Design:
- Constant streamed video advertising
- Menu bar and search engine( easy access/ easy to identify)
- Latest news on films and production which is frequently updated
- Features bar which includes trailers on upcoming films
- News archive

Structure:
- News Reel is directly linked to features column, this is used as a way of promoting the film, each film has a link to another section of the website therefore making it all inter-connected.
- "Exclusive" column allows for a recent film to have all links to all sections of the website, which includes trailers, features, photos and links to official website.

Extras:
-Collection of film posters and downloads
- Bright colour theme ( different shades of blue)

ok so Sunday arvo, thought i'd give it another stab.. im going to look into uploading some photos and my CV along with some applications/videos that others might like..

Blogger

I came across Blogger on my search for a basic web log for my Network Media class, Blogger seemed very user friendly and a good starting point to further expand over the rest of the semester....