Assessment time!!!

This semester I have learnt A LOT!! I’ve never been very good with computers. If you asked me what a HTML, RSS or CSS was last year and I would have stared at you blankly.

Last term-

Blogger: The blogs have been fun to use and we have learnt how to change the appearance add gadgets, and make html’s, which was really beneficial. I have since used html’s in everyday internet postings and now have a better understanding of how they work and what they do!
Although I probably will not continue blogging, I can understand how it is interesting and fun. Not only for the average person to have a ‘internet presence’ but for companies and jobs as well- eg, an artist may have a blog and do commissions for people- thus reaching a wider audience that they wouldn’t have been able to without the internet.

Flickr: has become quite important in my daily routine!! It is really handy for posting up work in progress and video’s for animation. If we had no learnt this I would still probably be wondering how to do this!!

Delicious: Is really handy! I am always forgetting the url’s for websites, (especially all the ones we have had to keep for this subject! Next time I will make NO variations in user names and passwords!) so its really neat to have them all on one website! Especially when you are on different computers! I have given the old ‘favourite’ option on m computer the flick and am now using Delicious instead!

This Term:

This term has been mostly about Counters, RSS and FTP.  Before these lessons, I knew nothing about any of them!!! I have always wondered how websites were made and different ways to do them. I have greatly enjoyed using iweb!!!  It is awesome to be able to change and drag and drop images and text to create your very own web page!

FTP: was a bit challenging at the time, but got the hang of it! It is a network protocol that is used to exchange and manipulate files over a computer network and internet. I was introduced to Fetch, the FTP client we were using, and learnt how to add things into it in order to create a website.

Athene: I have learnt that you DO not delete your Public html by accident...!!!! It causes much stress and anguish! :P

RSS: is pretty damn cool! It allows you to be updated on your favourite blogs and sites with RSS feeds on your own site! This mean’s you have the convenience to be able to see the updates in one place! Before this class I knew nothing about these and didn’t even know they existed!!

So over all, everything has been new to me and I have actually learnt a great deal!! ­