June 2009
2 posts
Web page DRAMA!
Well it has to happen, the day of the due date the server provider is performing website cheacks! The link is down, so I had to upload it to a different provider.
Here is the link
http://timfindlay.x10hosting.com/website/index.html
The original should be up and running soon, but just in case this is a new link.
It's All Over People!
Well it has all come to an end! 15 weeks of web page design and what can I say? Well it was a very challenging subject, just the fact that most of the people in the course have never made a website before, it is always very hard when you have to learn something from scratch, but it is all worth it in the end. This subject for me was very interesting, learning the in’s and out’s of how...
May 2009
10 posts
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is just a concept, more of a culture shift that happened. A shift from static content to user generated content. Examples of web 2.0 include API’s that allow the user to create a customs lay out of the original interface, examples include Wikipedia, Flickr, Google maps and the list goes on. Web 2.0 relies heavily on user-generated content, and with this comes the formation of web groups,...
BLoG Theme!
Ok so yesterday I had a good slog at customizing my blog theme. When starting this project it seemed to be a little daunting but as I spent some time with it, the job became really quite easy! You just forget how much you have actually learned from building your own website and being aware of what each section of code actually does. So I started with customizing an existing blog, and just changing...
BOOM! Finished my webpage!
http://timfindlay3026675.comxa.com/u3026675/index.html
Website Completion :O
So I have finally finished my website, and it feels great, but hosting this is another problem, everything works so well but for the embedded youtube video, it is not existent! There is always something isn’t there, just like linking your CSS sheet, all was fine until your back ground disappears and all the problem was removing my <style> tags! God I could go on with this for a lifetime...
Free Web Hosting WITH NO advertising!
Ok so i have finally found a free web hosting service that does not spam your page with ad’s which is great because i did not want to pay for something that I will probably use for a few weeks. Here is the link just sign up upload your pages and you will be sweet, i am going to post this on the unit page too. Good luck with the websites everyone :).
http://www.000webhost.com/features
Website Completion
My website is finally completed, there are just a few minor things that I have to finish, and host the site but other than that its all looking good. This was quite a testing project, having a learn how to code from stratch, which was very..very time consuming…. every little thing had a consequence which made me a little insane!
I am suprised that we ended up getting such a large extension...
Week 7
Its been a tough week this week, looking over the weekly online lecture it was good to get a small grasp on how to mark up your CSS so that it looks like your original design draft. I am finding CSS quite hard to get. I think that it is the initial daunting process of learning what is acceptable to use and what is not going to work. Applying the background layout is fine and marking up my...
March 2009
7 posts
Week 6 (Web Publishing)
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content.
Traditionally the term has referred to the distribution of printed works but the shift from the...
Week 5 (Information Architecture)
Saul Wurman came up with this idea of information architecture, but what became confusing was features of design such as industrial design, information design and interior design were all about looking things look good but in many cases not practical. Wurmans aim is to abstract complex information in simple forms, hence is obsession with maps.
Information Architecture can be described as the...
Why Code Counts?
This weeks topic was about why code counts in constructing web pages.
Elements that were explained in the online lecture included;
History of the web
Netscape provided a rich graphical experience which was highly innovative as it saw the web as a multi-media platform rather than just a text based pages. Implementing plug ins such as shock wave and quicktime.
The problems that are occurring...
Design Reference (Tim Findlay u3026675)
When approaching the design reference, I went about finding websites that were specifically designed for promoting a product or media form. The website that I have chosen to create for my assignment is the Vans Warped Tour, which is an American punk rock festival. When thinking about the overall website and how it should look and operate I searched for sites that had a common promotional theme,...
Week 3 Design Reference
This week has been spent researching the design reference assignment that is due next week. I went about this with having a look around the net, finding web pages that i liked the design of and pages that desplayed information in a organised and simple way. Each of these webpages has similar characteristic within there layout and designs, the only difference is the fact that some hold and have...
Week 2 Designing For The Web
After watching this weeks lecture, i found it very useful in assessing and evaluating the different conventions and traits that web pages abide by. Even though most of these conventions when pointed out seem very simple, its something that i think as web browsers we take for granted. The style of say a web page scrolling down, highlighted words being seen as links web page logos being used as a...
February 2009
1 post
First Week Back
Damn its hard to get into the swing of things, after having 16 weeks off… feels like a lifetime. Just looking through the course guide it looks like its going to be a pretty decent course, nothing much too add yet. I have started thinking about the type of web page that i want to create, i not not selected a type of music festival that i will use. Last year i had to do a few blogs in...