week 3 lecture

Dear blog,

Our topic of discussion in class this week is HTML and CSS.There are two Mark-ups Language that can be used. Firstly, HTML stands for Hyper-text Mark-up Language. It is created to make the text more clear and easy to understand. It is also a limited subset of XML. Secondly, XML that stands for Extensible Mark-up Language. It is designed to be extensible and goes beyond what you can think at the time. XML is meant to be the human and machine readable. It could extend your codes into a picture. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

So, why is HTML so good? HTML is easy to understand. It enables you to interface with the coder and you can see how it works easily on a website by selecting view codes on the view tab. It is all you need to put everything online. HTML is just text so you don’t need to download expensive software to create a webpage. You can easily use notepad or Text Wrangler to create your HTML codes.

CSS is created to instruct your webpage browser to how to draw. CSS is used to allow you to style your HTML data with lots of different colour codes, font styles, sizes and many more.

17 Feb 2010 - First day, First Blog

Dear Blog,

This is the first time I've ever made you. For school purposes of course.

Today is the first day of Networked Media Production tutorial and we are asked to create a blog. Yesterday at Lecture we talked about what blog is, why do people use it, and different blog websites. From what I heard, the word blog is actually came from weBlog which means a piece of document or journal of ongoing event that is posted on website. People use blog because it is the easiest, cheapest and fastest publishing tool ever invented. Blog also allow people to have a voice they didn't have before. In blog, people mostly use text but you can also add images, sounds even videos. How amazing is that!!! I can't believe technology these days has made life so much easier. It is no longer writing about your personal life in a diary book with boring looking book but more interesting looking with pictures, videos and sounds. You can also share stories with your friends or other people around the world! Wow, I guess I'm gonna get addicted to blogging now!

That is it for now. Gotta add my blog URL to moodle! :)