Week 6: Templates

CSS provides more flexibility and better control in the presentation of web pages. It allows multiple pages to share formatting, and reduces complexity in the content. CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles and layouts. Presentation in CSS is separated from structure and print.

CSS can define color, font, text alignment, size, borders, spacing, and other characteristics. It can do this independently for on-screen and printed views. This means that you can change the layout of a web page without changing the content.

CSS allows the widest possible accessibility with the broad access to information and services.

The adoption of CSS has had problems due mostly to poor implementation and support.

Well that was a mouthful, not to mention boring!! Bottom line...CSS lets me tweak my page easy.

Here is a Link to some templates which may interest you.

Here is a Link to the mpi104 blog.

Week 5: Del.icio.us

Delicious is a sweet find. This site would be excellent for anyone who is moving frequently between computers. I will surely be adding it to my personal tools list. Besides the usual stupendous list of applications, I admire the story behind the man.

In 2003, Joshua Schachter released the first version of Delicious. Then in 2005, he left his day job to work on it fulltime, and by the end of 2005 he had sold it to Yahoo for an estimated $50 million. Not a bad effort for a couple of years work.

Also interesting is the Domain or URL, "del.icio.us" a cool example of domain hacking, which combinations letters to form a word or phrase. What a great idea, just when I thought I had bought my domain quota for the year.

To be sure, there are other competing bookmarking services, but none command the value anywhere near the range of Delicious.

Here is a Link to Delicious

Here is a Link to the mpi104 blog.

Week 2: My First Web Link

Ok, so you're wondering why my first Web Link is here between Week 4 and Week 5. Yeah I know, how does he manage to post all the other stuff and then say that Week 2 naturally comes after Week 4? Well...I could be dyslexic or maybe it was just beyond me to delete the lot and start over in a chronological order, and anyway if I did it would then seem like I didn't lift a finger until the very last moment. So here it stays, untouched, unblemished, and as close as it gets to the correct order.

Here is a Link to my First Post

Here is a Link to the mpi104 blog.

Week 4: Flickr

Today I discovered Flickr, and what a discovery it was. Flickr is a great place to park my photos, but more importantly its a great place to park the photos I rip from the net. Uhh...did I say 'rip', I mean the photos that I am using for educational purposes of course; properly sequenced, meticulously referenced, OH! and funny too. Actually, it is fantastic, as it offers a multitude of applications and a number of networking options that simplify image storage and reproduction even. The exercise of using Flickr has also developed a better sense of appreciation for the shear volume of images available on the web. Still, Google images is my hands down favorite for search, however Flickr is now the obvious place to store what I source. But wait! it gets better, Flickr can be accessed from any computer that I am using regardless of where my gypsy caravan is taking me. Best of all though is that I can store the web images with the meta info for easy return to the general area of search. Why is this good you ask? Well...I like a lot of pictures that do not quite make the grade when I search, so I leave a mental note on the ones saved and selected making it easy to return to the others if needed in the future.

Here is a Link to my Excellent Flickr Sets. Well worth the trip.
Or Click Here to go straight to my photostream.

Here is a few of the geotagged images i found on flickr that intrested me:
*Wagga Wagga Airport- Departure Terminal;
* Best Watering Hole in Wagga; The Famous Wagga Cinema

Here is a Link to the mpi104 blog.

Week 3: Google Blogger Test

Having had a pseudo Gmail account on a Geodomain for a while, I never knew just how many great applications where available. Always wondered where the documents that I downloaded on my gmail account went to??? Well...I know now, and there they all are! Now that I know how to access my own account for documents, DAH!, I can consolidate the literary plethora of stuff from all my various workstations.

The test to see if Google Docs correctly submits a post to my blog using the Google Docs upload tool seems good, and I simply need to become more accustom to the idea of leaving all my vital information on some strangers server in Bangalore.

I'm still, however, having a little trouble finding the Google app that remotely starts my car?

And just for the sake of it, here is a Link to my first post.

Here is a Link to the mpi104 blog.