Aesthetics of web pages

Aesthetics of web pages relates to the appearence of a web page. Weather the colours, fonts, Images, layout and background come together to create a harmonious image that we feel comfortable to view or uncomfortable to view depending on the intent of the creater. Here is a link to a aesthetics tutorial .

Here is a site I found while looking for a site about aesthetics ironically called The Aesthetics

Why I found this site not aesthetically pleasing
The wall paper are is ridiculous its a small image bad to start with then tiled across the background. The Fonts in the title are poor graphic predating even the binary code.

A website I do like is Apple Trailers The page is mordern slick and is well set out. The content is interesting and the way it changes featured movies when the page is refeshed I quite enjoy

RSS and XML

RSS(Really Simple Syndication)- is a web feed format used in frequently updated material such as blogs, news feeds and podcasts. Users of RSS use RSS readers to view the RSS feeds. The RSS format is specified in XML.

XML(Extensible Markup Language)- is a general purpose markup language(a markup language combines text and extra information about the text e.g. info about the texts structure or presentation intermingled with the primary text). Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly the internet.

Before today I had never heard of RSS feeds, but now I can see how these are useful and may one day put the humble news paper out of business. I selected to use Google reader as it was easy to opperated and worked first time(thanks blogger). I have subscribed to some other rss feeds and looks it may become a part of the daily internet rutine. wikipedia rss and wikipedia xml