Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My 4th IS Lesson: CSS
Hello, readers! Today, I'm going to tell you about CSS. It stands for Cascading Style Sheet. It allows you to change the font, background, colour etc. of your website without changing your HTML programming. CSS is usually typed out on a separate flie, again using Notebook. This is about all I can tell you now since we have just covered the basics of CSS. I probably will be able to tell you more two weeks later. Happy Chinese New Year!!
Monday, February 1, 2010
My 3rd IS Lesson: HTML
Hello, everybody! This week, I learnt about HTML. It stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is sort of like a language the computer understands and then translates into a language we can understand more easily. For example, let's pretend that a computer can translate Bishou(HTML) , which is the world's least used language, into your native language(webpage).
However, computer programmers or website designers need to know HTML or else they will not know what to do. To create a webpage using HTML is actually quite easy. All you need to do is to use a Notebook, type html at the begining with <>,/html at the end, also with the <>, and anything in between them will be shown in your webpage after you save it as .html or .htm and publish it. It's the designing that's difficult. You can't type in bold or italic in Notebook.
My teacher recomanded two websites for us to take a look at so if you are interested in HTML, you might want to visit them. They are www.w3schools.com and www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide. There is also a video on Youtube that is titled "Learn HTML in 10 minutes" which I found useful. There is a Youtube Search at the bottem of my blog so you do not need to leave the page.
However, computer programmers or website designers need to know HTML or else they will not know what to do. To create a webpage using HTML is actually quite easy. All you need to do is to use a Notebook, type html at the begining with <>,/html at the end, also with the <>, and anything in between them will be shown in your webpage after you save it as .html or .htm and publish it. It's the designing that's difficult. You can't type in bold or italic in Notebook.
My teacher recomanded two websites for us to take a look at so if you are interested in HTML, you might want to visit them. They are www.w3schools.com and www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide. There is also a video on Youtube that is titled "Learn HTML in 10 minutes" which I found useful. There is a Youtube Search at the bottem of my blog so you do not need to leave the page.
My 2nd IS Lesson: Blog or Website? Which is better?
Sorry for those who do not know what is IS. IS stands for Infocomm Studies, which for those of you who still don't know means IT lessons. Anyway, I am here to talk to you about what I've learnt, so let's not get of the topic. On my second IS lesson, we were required to post comments on two of the three topics which were discussed of the forum of our IS teacher's website. I learnt about the advantages and disadvantages of blogs and websites.
The advantage of a blog is that it is very easy and quick to create a blog, and you do not need mch IT skills. The disadvantage of a blog is that it is difficult to manipulate the design of your blog or change large sections of your blog unless you have good IT skills. Your audience will also expect you to update your blog frequently so you might have to set aside some time each 2-3 days to update your blog.
The advantage of a website is that it is easy to customise it and you don't have to update it frequently as the date when you posted your post isn't shown so your readers wouldn't whether or not you had updated your website recently so it is not as stressful but the disadvantage is that it takes longer to set up a website that to set up a blog. However, both of them require a lot of work to maintain them.
In my opinion, a blog is better. Even though people expect you to update your blog frequently, you don't have to do it. Anyway, as a student, there isn't much time in my life so it will be easier to create a blog as it does not need so much time to create one.
The advantage of a blog is that it is very easy and quick to create a blog, and you do not need mch IT skills. The disadvantage of a blog is that it is difficult to manipulate the design of your blog or change large sections of your blog unless you have good IT skills. Your audience will also expect you to update your blog frequently so you might have to set aside some time each 2-3 days to update your blog.
The advantage of a website is that it is easy to customise it and you don't have to update it frequently as the date when you posted your post isn't shown so your readers wouldn't whether or not you had updated your website recently so it is not as stressful but the disadvantage is that it takes longer to set up a website that to set up a blog. However, both of them require a lot of work to maintain them.
In my opinion, a blog is better. Even though people expect you to update your blog frequently, you don't have to do it. Anyway, as a student, there isn't much time in my life so it will be easier to create a blog as it does not need so much time to create one.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
My 1st IS lesson: The Internet & WWW
I learnt that the Internet was created by APRANET and it's original goal was to allow scientists at different locations to share information. The Internet became funtional in September 1969. It has grown from 4 host nodes to more than 200 million host nodes. Each website has it's own domain name and IP address. An example of a domain name is www.facebook.com and an example of an IP address is 63.123.44.192. There are 9 basic types of websites. They are : Portals, News, Informational, Business/Marketing, Educational, Entertainment, Advocacy, Blog and Personal. An advocacy website contains content that describes a cause opinion or idea. The guildlines for evaluation a website are affiliation, audience, authority, content, currency, design and objectivity.
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