Week 9 - Counters and RSS Feed

Counters are widgets that, well obviously, count. They count the number of hits your website has, and you - and your viewers - will be able to see how popular and how many hits you recieve.
A few web analysis tools include:
Google Analytics
AWStats
eLogic
SiteMeter and
W3Perl


An RSS Feed is a web feed used to inform subscribers about frequently updated works; it allows people to subscribe to a feed and it will automatically update them when the site is edited and new information is added.
Google reader is a simple way to subscribe to RSS feeds and is found in Gmail.

Week 12

Obviously, as you may notice, I did not post this a week priar to assessment. But I figured supplying and posting something is better than nothing at all.

Here is my:
Athene website
my blog - which has posts made throughout the year.
del.icio.us - which unfortunately I barely add to, but I was very happy when I could access all my important sites when I went home and couldn't use my laptop.
Flickr - which, surprisingly, I've been using quiet often to upload images of my animation, and other photos.


This Semester I've learnt how to use iweb on the Macs, I've learnt about templates and how to manipulate them; however I find I keep coming back to my original layout because I like the simplistic and straight forward look. I've changed colours on my blog and my website.
I discovered, learnt and uploaded with Fetch.
I learnt about Technorati, and how is differs to RSS Feeds.
I learnt about RSS Feeds.
I learnt how to add tags in del.icio.us which I was unsure about at the end of last term.
And edited my previously uploaded images on Flickr.
I learnt about GoogleReader and subscribed to a heap of different sites.

I refreshed my memory when it came to FTP, as I dabbled in it last year in my IT course.
I became more aware of gmail over the whole duration of this course, but am horrified there's another email address I have to remember to check :P

I realised how even though I did everything on the MPI blog I often forgot to create posts about it, and reluctantly admit that's exactly what I was told would happen at the very start of the semester.

I'm sure there is much more I've learnt, because I appreciate the fact I know heaps heaps more now than I did before this course... but I just can't think of any more to write at the moment.

So I hope you've all enjoyed reading my posts and following me through this semester. Thank you to all who helped and supported me too - you know who you are, and you all rock.
Thanks. Stay cool people :D

Week 8 - FTP and Web publishing

FTP; aka File Transfer Protocol is (defined by wiki as) "a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the internet."
This is good because it means you can upload information instantly onto a public server.
However FTP has some negatives as well, such as:
Bounce Attacks,
Spoof Attacks,
Brute Force Attacks,
Sniffing,
Username Protection, and
Port Stealing.
But these risks can be minimized by employing encryption tools.

I learn about Athene and created a site which you can access here if you wish.

Technorati Validation code

JR9624SW2MHK

Technorati

Technorati is perfect for searching blogs; all blogs, however unlike a RSS feed, Technorati reads all of the HTML code, as well as tracks all of the activity around a blog or site. It keeps people up to date about updates and changes that happen on these pages.
Your blog will get ranked on how many people follow and link to it; and you will be given a number depending on how many people joined before you or are ranked above you.

At the moment I am awaiting my claim, but soon it will be up for you to hit and link to:
Don't wait - Link! Link! Link!

Templates and CSS

First of all, when I turned off the 'default style' and made it 'no style' I found all the backgrounds disappeared and it became simply black and white, no templates or formal layouts.



Advantages of using CSS - well obviously it's quicker, easier and less likely to make mistakes (say if you want all the headings to be the same colour and font; you only have to change it once - Yay! :P). I reluctantly changed my background colours for the body and sidebar; even though I was already happy with how I had it set up previously.
A template can change the entire look and layout of a webpage or website, without changing your actual contents. But the changes can only be made within the template's own limits. I didn't really change my template because I already liked the look I had achieved, but you can change certain details within boundries.

Accessiblity is important to consider when making a webpage because it allows the page to be accessed by different browsers and people (including people with disablities) without trouble. Very important!

Well that's it for now, hope that was interesting for you all, and I'll catch yas next time :)

Summery - week 6 assessment

Hi all, man, I have done so much in this subject already.

For instance, in Blogger alone - I have completed 7 Posts, I particualrly like my flickr post and my post about Delicious; mainly because they talk about things I have learnt in this subject.
I enjoyed playing around with the look of my blog, especially the gadgets.
I have made a few comments to other people's blogs; I think I like the one where I commented on Becky's mainly because seeing what she could achieve with her layout inspired me and gave me more ideas.
I've also learnt how to follow, as well as add friends to my Blogger account, which I thin is pretty cool because I get updates from them and their blogs.

Del.icio.us is an awesome website which I reluctantly admit I havn't been paying enough attention to, but I do like it.
I have bookmarked 15 pages, my favourite one is probably the link to minitoykio - because it has my cousin's art on it. Mainly I bookmarked pages that interest me because they were about my friends, or animation - or even just usefulness like a link to flickr or the animation forum :D

And then there is flickr. Flickr is a quick photosharing website. Some of my favourite photos were taken back home, in Myrtleford.
They include a view from Reform Hill
some nice effects made from rain drops
and a tree on an interesting angle that I used to hang out under with my friends at school.

Anyway, I hope you like them, and check back on my blog in the future.
- Thanks guys

3 websites like delicious

Here are 3 websites like the Del.icio.us website:

Blicklist - Discover, Blink & Share
Simpy - Social bookmarks manager
Splur - Free online bookmarks with so much more

Del.icio.us!!!!!!! Yum, lolz

Again, re-reading the week 4+5 post, I noticed I also hadn't talked about Del.icio.us
Granted, if I realised I would've talked about it on my previous post, but anyway.
Del.isio.us is good but I havn't been using it as much as I should. I know it's convenient having all my bookmarks in one place, which is sweet as, and I've actually been using that to always gain quick access to the flickr website, but at this stage I havn't needed to really use it for any other websites - but really, in all truth - it's awesome.
I've recently added more bookmarks and websites to My Delicious account, so feel free to check it out if you wish.

Flickr

Ok, so I was re-reading week 4 + 5 post, and realised I hadn't posted anything about Flickr. Opps. ok well here it goes:

Flickr is good. I mean really good. It loads my images heaps faster than Facebook. And like most image loading sites you can tag, create folders (or sets) and heaps more.

Catch - all my friends are on facebook and don't want to join another website :P

So all in all it has it's ups and downs (made only by some of my stubborn yet luved friends, haha, thanks guys). But if you would like to see some photos and similar pictures like the above image, simply click here to check out my flickr account.

My holidays/break

Where to start - ok, obviously if you've been following my blog you know what I did on Good Friday. Saturday was just as good, but the rest of the long weekend was pretty boring and uneventful. Easter without the family and away from Myrtleford was pretty weird but I was still on a high from the previous Friday and Saturday.
The first Wednesday of the break I went back to Myrtleford for what was suppose to be a few days, but somehow became a week long visit, hehe :D. However, it was worth it; I got to catch up with family and friends. A drinking/catch up sesh with friends was probably the highlight of the visit, though I enjoyed my entire time just being back in the home town

Good Friday, Army March Out

On Good Friday I went to an Army March Out. For those of you who havn't experienced one - it's incredible. To watch the men and women march out was like nothing I've ever seen before. They become different people as they march in their Platoons and in their uniforms. The expressions on the faces of loved ones in the crowd is full of emotion; as I'm sure mine was as well.
Knowing a few people who have gone through the army process it was interesting to see how they actually change in the 80 days of basic training, and yet still remain exactly the same off base, lol. Although I didn't spend the day in the traditional Good Friday way (although that's obviously different for everyone as well, but) I had the best time, and it will be a day I will never forget :) xx

I'd also like to give a shot out to Dav - without your help I wouldn't have been able to attend an awesome event; Thanks Dav!

First Ever Walk Cycle

Ok, so I realise I've been very lazy in my postings since I got this account. - So i'm going to apologise now as I am about to go blog crazy. Get ready ;P

First of all I think I should talk about my first Walk cycle for VFX101. As my first ever real animation I learnt alot. I don't think I have ever taken so much notice at how people walk, nor do I think we will be able to really see people walking in the same way again.
I found the more I worked on my walk cycle the more problems I found with it, and that drove me insane; as I know it did with a few others as well.
So for my first walk cycle and play in animation I learnt a lot about the break down of a walk, a heap in the art of animation and can't wait to start my next assignment :D

My First Post

Wow, ok. My first post on my own blog. hmmm, what to write about?
Well my name is Shandelle, I'm studying Animation and Visual Effects - first year. I used to live in Myrtleford which is about 2 and a half hours away, but moved to Wagga for my course.
Obviously I'm writing this for my introduction to Multimedia; MPI104; which so far - along with the rest of my subjects, is pretty good :)

And if you click here, you can actually go to the Multimedia blog - Enjoy