Monday, January 30, 2012
Usability and accessibility
Usability falls under the navigation of the site and the accessibility is how easy the navigation works
advantages of creating a site
The advantage of creating your own site would be, you get what you want. To hire someone you might get more than what you wanted.
Websites
If anyone can create a website that is great! the question should be can anyone create a good website. I think it would be great if people and that goes for anyone can create a crap site and find use for it.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
two url's
https://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=Ac-TkxylXN2DemiB Facebook's home page is hard to navigate. the navigations are located at the bottom of the page. If you choose to find friends, advertising or create a page. you need to search the page to find the navigation. The over all visual of the page is dull. very open to space and lacks appearance towards graphics.
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/ I was just on this page today to order something for my car. I was funny how I noticed the easy navigation presented by this store. all navigations are at the top. When your courser touches the the nav button, it auto drops other navigations. This makes it easy to use and find what you need with little or no computer experience.
Will i be more critical of websites in the future? Yes, using a proper navigation system on a page makes life easier to locate the information you are gathering. Normally the interface of the page will tell you if it will be set-up by its looks. Example; a page with well design colors and graphics normally will have the time to add the navigations to the proper and most accessable areas of the page. Why, because someone has or paid to have the page set for professional quality.
Additonal comments on reading... Not really, i was to focused on killing my HTML project to think about the reading this week. Maybe next week.
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/ I was just on this page today to order something for my car. I was funny how I noticed the easy navigation presented by this store. all navigations are at the top. When your courser touches the the nav button, it auto drops other navigations. This makes it easy to use and find what you need with little or no computer experience.
Will i be more critical of websites in the future? Yes, using a proper navigation system on a page makes life easier to locate the information you are gathering. Normally the interface of the page will tell you if it will be set-up by its looks. Example; a page with well design colors and graphics normally will have the time to add the navigations to the proper and most accessable areas of the page. Why, because someone has or paid to have the page set for professional quality.
Additonal comments on reading... Not really, i was to focused on killing my HTML project to think about the reading this week. Maybe next week.
quiz on page 154
Example A gives an instant impression. The navigatons are set in purple on a black background. Example B uses dull colors and weird faces and designs on the left hand side. Example A jumps to you and cries hit the nav button.
Looking a both sites, A looks more professional. B looks like a project I could do without being in your class. B just needs more work.
Looking a both sites, A looks more professional. B looks like a project I could do without being in your class. B just needs more work.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Week three review questions
Niagara Falls
Save original photos before starting. Simple tools to customize a photo to remove people, layers, brush tools, crop tools, eraser, lasso tools and the clone tool. Cropping people out of a photo is easy if used by a cut then add clone tool to reinstall the background from the same spot of the people standing.
The difference of readability vs. legibility.
Readability refers to how how to read a lot of text.
Legibility refers to how to recognize shorts bursts of text. Examples headlines, buttons, signs.
What did I learn from this chapter?
Defaults fonts and size are auto set on your browser. The size of the text is important for reading, sometimes changing these settings will bring more life to your page. Cross-platforms fonts are normally set on new roman on your browser. Changing them for eye catching for main topics give a fancier look to your page.
This chapter covers mostly text and how to change the text to bring life to a page. By choosing different styles of text and you can create eye catching fonts to bring points to your messages.
Additional reading:
The difference between gif and jpeg file formats. Gif is a compressed file that uses minimun colors and jpeg files can contain 16.7 million colors.
Image map are links to other pages almost the same as a thumbnail.
Cmyk cyan magenta yellow and black.
RGB Red Green and Blue.
Indexed colors is 256 colors.
Bit depth is also called pixel depth or bit resolution. A bit is the smallest unit of information that a computer understands.
Save original photos before starting. Simple tools to customize a photo to remove people, layers, brush tools, crop tools, eraser, lasso tools and the clone tool. Cropping people out of a photo is easy if used by a cut then add clone tool to reinstall the background from the same spot of the people standing.
The difference of readability vs. legibility.
Readability refers to how how to read a lot of text.
Legibility refers to how to recognize shorts bursts of text. Examples headlines, buttons, signs.
What did I learn from this chapter?
Defaults fonts and size are auto set on your browser. The size of the text is important for reading, sometimes changing these settings will bring more life to your page. Cross-platforms fonts are normally set on new roman on your browser. Changing them for eye catching for main topics give a fancier look to your page.
This chapter covers mostly text and how to change the text to bring life to a page. By choosing different styles of text and you can create eye catching fonts to bring points to your messages.
Additional reading:
The difference between gif and jpeg file formats. Gif is a compressed file that uses minimun colors and jpeg files can contain 16.7 million colors.
Image map are links to other pages almost the same as a thumbnail.
Cmyk cyan magenta yellow and black.
RGB Red Green and Blue.
Indexed colors is 256 colors.
Bit depth is also called pixel depth or bit resolution. A bit is the smallest unit of information that a computer understands.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Questions answered
1. CRAP. Contrast repetition alignment, and proximity. These four practices are the key to an easily readable page. When combined, the page is set for legible usage. Focal points are important to create main points for the reader to find.
2. Designing on the web and starting ad campaigns is cost efficient on the web. If you compare price vs. design vs. circulation, the web stands alone. Updating on the web and correcting errors also comes much easier and you will not bear the bourdon of cost such as print ads. The customer’s response does not require time when using the web, it comes instantly.
3. Quiz 112
1. The web. The web is fast and reliable to be sent by email. The email can use a direct link to the blog page or site. Anyone with a smart-phone in any location can retrieve the message and look for important notices, changes and updates.
2. The web. Web connects with cheap and faster information.
3. The web. The web is instant to let customers know they need updating.
4. The web. Customers will receive the correct information faster through the web and it is more secure and reliable than print/mailers.
5. The web. Blog pages are easy to publish and the cost compared to print is unbelievably cheaper. 100% cheaper.
6. The web. You can fit it all on one page or 500 pages if designed personally you do not receive a bill. The only cost comes from keeping the page on a site for around 30 dollars a month. A newspaper ad or national magazine would charge as much as a house to list the single page ad. The web beats out the print and is widely used.
4. Chapter one and two were great refreshers about basic knowledge and terminologies. I did find some information not known by the basic use of search engines. Chapter five really showed the savings you earn by utilizing the web. The advantages also come through true colors of natural photos. Chapter six was a full review of the first class. This chapter mostly covered CRAP.
2. Designing on the web and starting ad campaigns is cost efficient on the web. If you compare price vs. design vs. circulation, the web stands alone. Updating on the web and correcting errors also comes much easier and you will not bear the bourdon of cost such as print ads. The customer’s response does not require time when using the web, it comes instantly.
3. Quiz 112
1. The web. The web is fast and reliable to be sent by email. The email can use a direct link to the blog page or site. Anyone with a smart-phone in any location can retrieve the message and look for important notices, changes and updates.
2. The web. Web connects with cheap and faster information.
3. The web. The web is instant to let customers know they need updating.
4. The web. Customers will receive the correct information faster through the web and it is more secure and reliable than print/mailers.
5. The web. Blog pages are easy to publish and the cost compared to print is unbelievably cheaper. 100% cheaper.
6. The web. You can fit it all on one page or 500 pages if designed personally you do not receive a bill. The only cost comes from keeping the page on a site for around 30 dollars a month. A newspaper ad or national magazine would charge as much as a house to list the single page ad. The web beats out the print and is widely used.
4. Chapter one and two were great refreshers about basic knowledge and terminologies. I did find some information not known by the basic use of search engines. Chapter five really showed the savings you earn by utilizing the web. The advantages also come through true colors of natural photos. Chapter six was a full review of the first class. This chapter mostly covered CRAP.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Terms
#DIG 315 Mislevy 2012
#Computer Terminology 15 pts
Identify these terms for class #2. You may use the web, friends, or your book to find the definitions. Submit them to moodle. We will review them in class.
1. Gif, jpeg and png Graphic Interchange Format. Joint Photographic Experts Group. Portable Network Graphics
2. banner Web site advertisement: a rectangular graphic across a Web page, used as an advertisement, heading, or link
3.Crop transitive verb cut something short: to cut something short,
4.Dpi vs ppi Dots per inch stands for the maximum number of tiny spots of ink that the printer can place in a straight line where the spots are theoretically small enough (i.e. ignoring spreading or smearing effects of ink on paper) that if placed in every other such dot position leaving white space between them, the spots can be individually distinguished.
Pixels per inch stands for the maximum number of unique positions in a straight line that the printer can place an ink spot under control from the outside world, namely from a computer connected to the printer.
5.pixilated pertaining to a printed image which has been digitized; visible as a pattern of pixels; also written pixellated
6. thumbnail Computer Science. A reduced image of a graphic or document page, used in order to view multiple images on a screen simultaneously or to download such images more rapidly.
7. bandwidth 1) the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second)
8.OCR usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten,
9. browser (give 2 examples) Safari or Explorer. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
10. search engines vs search directories Search engines and the directories are two different services available to the Web community. However, many people do not know the difference between them. Search engines have databases built up by "robots", which visit a websites and add information to their database. On the other hand, directories are human edited and build their indexes with editors who visit websites, and add to the directory the sites that they consider to be a valuable resource.
11.domain name and domain name extension A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Extensions are categories of Internet domain names.
12.Internet vs intranet The Internet is an open, public space, while an intranet is designed to be a private space
13. ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet
14. IP Address IP address lookup, location, proxy detection, email tracing, IP hiding tips, blacklist check, speed test, and forums.
15. hyperlink To follow a hypertext link to an electronic document or file.
16. hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.
17. HTML, XHTML, XML – what are these? is a family of
XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.
While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.
XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on May 31, 2001. XHTML5 is undergoing development as of September 2009, as part of the HTML5 specification.
18. ecommerce commonly known as e-commerce, ecommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.
19. cookie (not the kind that goes with milk) a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
20. plug-in (including examples) In computing, a plug-in (or plugin) is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used in web browsers to play video, scan for viruses, and display new file types.
21. pod cast A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of files (either audio or video) subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication.
22. ftp File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP -based network, such as the Internet.
23. URL In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource
24. Web 2.0/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that -- on the surface -- don't seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? I've heard it called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link it to such concepts as grid computing -- which is a way of taking many different computers and linking them together to form one very big computer.
25. World wide web vs website vs webpage The World Wide Web (or the proper World ... Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a web browser
26. USB USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.
27. Flash drive/jump drive USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.
28. PDF Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
29.Social media Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue.
#Computer Terminology 15 pts
Identify these terms for class #2. You may use the web, friends, or your book to find the definitions. Submit them to moodle. We will review them in class.
1. Gif, jpeg and png Graphic Interchange Format. Joint Photographic Experts Group. Portable Network Graphics
2. banner Web site advertisement: a rectangular graphic across a Web page, used as an advertisement, heading, or link
3.Crop transitive verb cut something short: to cut something short,
4.Dpi vs ppi Dots per inch stands for the maximum number of tiny spots of ink that the printer can place in a straight line where the spots are theoretically small enough (i.e. ignoring spreading or smearing effects of ink on paper) that if placed in every other such dot position leaving white space between them, the spots can be individually distinguished.
Pixels per inch stands for the maximum number of unique positions in a straight line that the printer can place an ink spot under control from the outside world, namely from a computer connected to the printer.
5.pixilated pertaining to a printed image which has been digitized; visible as a pattern of pixels; also written pixellated
6. thumbnail Computer Science. A reduced image of a graphic or document page, used in order to view multiple images on a screen simultaneously or to download such images more rapidly.
7. bandwidth 1) the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second)
8.OCR usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten,
9. browser (give 2 examples) Safari or Explorer. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
10. search engines vs search directories Search engines and the directories are two different services available to the Web community. However, many people do not know the difference between them. Search engines have databases built up by "robots", which visit a websites and add information to their database. On the other hand, directories are human edited and build their indexes with editors who visit websites, and add to the directory the sites that they consider to be a valuable resource.
11.domain name and domain name extension A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Extensions are categories of Internet domain names.
12.Internet vs intranet The Internet is an open, public space, while an intranet is designed to be a private space
13. ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet
14. IP Address IP address lookup, location, proxy detection, email tracing, IP hiding tips, blacklist check, speed test, and forums.
15. hyperlink To follow a hypertext link to an electronic document or file.
16. hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.
17. HTML, XHTML, XML – what are these? is a family of
XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.
While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.
XHTML 1.0 became a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation on January 26, 2000. XHTML 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on May 31, 2001. XHTML5 is undergoing development as of September 2009, as part of the HTML5 specification.
18. ecommerce commonly known as e-commerce, ecommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.
19. cookie (not the kind that goes with milk) a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
20. plug-in (including examples) In computing, a plug-in (or plugin) is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used in web browsers to play video, scan for viruses, and display new file types.
21. pod cast A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of files (either audio or video) subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication.
22. ftp File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP -based network, such as the Internet.
23. URL In computing, a uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource
24. Web 2.0/Cloud Computing Cloud Computing is a term that is often bandied about the web these days and often attributed to different things that -- on the surface -- don't seem to have that much in common. So just what is Cloud Computing? I've heard it called a service, a platform, and even an operating system. Some even link it to such concepts as grid computing -- which is a way of taking many different computers and linking them together to form one very big computer.
25. World wide web vs website vs webpage The World Wide Web (or the proper World ... Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a web browser
26. USB USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.
27. Flash drive/jump drive USB jump drives and USB flash drives refer to the same type of device. Multiple names have been given to the technology, including USB keys, pen drives and thumb drives. USB flash drives are portable devices that make it easy to transfer computer files. USB jump drives and flash drives both use the same type of flash technology that allow files to be saved to the drive.
28. PDF Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.
29.Social media Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies used to turn communication into interactive dialogue.
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