Overview

In this subject i have learned about how the web can be customised to the user to increase web production and useability.

Google has proven to be one of my favorites, because it has branched out into providing helpful and entertaining web functions, attachments, and even software. I have found Google docs particularly helpful because it has online counterparts of all the Microsoft office software, which it is also completely compatible with. This means i can create documents on any computer with web access and not have to pay to use Microsoft products. Google earth s is also cool. I looked at my house.

Delicious has also taught me about the user friendly side of the net. Having a delicious account has let me keep my internet favorites wherever i go. This helps as a cant remember all of them.

Flickr has opened me up to the real interactive side of the internet. This is because of the massive online community that is involved with flickr.

Rss feeds have let me keep track of dynamic web sites and blogs. This is great because I'm not trawling over the internet to check out my favorite sites every week, I'm just notified of updates automatically by subscribing to their feed.

Technorati has helped manage my blog, and lets me keep track of exactly how many page views i have had. I just wish we had discovered it in at the beginning of the subject.

Learning the basics HTML and CSS means i can create basic web pages, as well as knowing what is going on behind the scenes.

all up this subject has educated me further into the workings of the internet.

technorati

technorati functions as a blog journal, following a list of registered blogs and sorting out the most popular. It keeps track of blog updates and allows users to follow certain favorited blogs of interest.

counters and rss

counters are a good way to track the amount of hits a webpage receives. this means you can understand how popular your webpage is and potentially target a specific audience.

i added a counter from easy hit counters.
my athene page has a dragon on it so i googled dragon counters and i found one!!!!!!

Rss feeds are great for recieving ubtates on webpages updated regularly.

ftp and athene

Creating an Athene account has allowed me to understand the basics of an ftp server. Iweb was an easy way to very quickly create a simple website that can be published fully prepared to upload onto fetch.

Summary

To summerise...

So far in this subject i have learnt how user friendly the internet can be, and how it can be customised the the individual web user. Google came as a big suprise, provoving to be more than just a search engine. Social networking, images and video sharing, email and online mapping are possible through its services, providing the most populer search engine with extras that make google usefull as well as handy.

Flickr opens up a new world of photo sharing, with its online community embracing the sites abbility to get amature photos out on the internet for otheres who are generally interested. It also provides a good way to host images.

Althouh obsolete, basic HTML skills have allowed me to understand the basis of the internet and web page creation. This has worked its way into CSS, which can be worked into sites such as blogger that allow the user to create basic templates to improve the asthetics of their page, without altering content.

Delicious is a great tool for storing web bookmarks that are available wherever the internet can be accesed.

Templates

Templates are an easy way to costomise the look of your page without fiddling around with the actual CSS code. Blogger provides a few nice, simple to apply ones. I like the fact that Blogger also allows you to change the CSS within the page if you want to, letting you make it look like more of your own.

This makes blogger a well desighned, accsesable web page. This is important because the majority of internet users will be able to work with the functional interface.

del.icio.us

Delicious is really cool. Because i rely so heavily on my IE favorites at home, i find myself forgetting the URLs to alot of websites. Delicious provides a site that keep them all in the ne place, accesable with all browsers on whatever computer has the internet. Its great for the computers here at uni.

other sites similar to delicious include:

Kaboodle
Digg
Reddit