Monday, June 11, 2007

Assessment #2 Post

The Blog I have set up is entitled pulp fiction as it is just that. My post have been about music such as afi and the bouncing souls and film such as 300 Spiderman 3 and transformers. To improve the look of my page I have added a picture to the heading which I think help the blog look more interesting.

Flickr I have also added pictures of musicans but I have also added pictures of myself living the uni social life which often gets in the way. I have added the pictures of the musicans to my flickr to keep with the theme of my blog. Flickr

Delicious the webs sites I have choosen for my delicious account I find interesting and use on a regular basis. my delicious

Transformers

I cant wait for Transformers how about you? Michael Bay better have done a good job. Transformers website

Monday, May 14, 2007

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

Monday, May 7, 2007

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

Monday, April 30, 2007

Assessment Task #1

The blog I have set up realates not to my a I use a alias but mainly around the two things that interest me most music and film. I have put some infomation about some of my favourite bands and how they got started. I put links to film clips of the bands so people can have a taste of the bands they read about. I use many pictures to give the blog a pleasing asthetic quality instead of looking like a text book.

Flickr- my flikr contains some pictures I took with my girlfriend on valintine's day and contains other photos of animals and some drawings by my favourite comic book artist

Delicious- the webs sites I have choosen for my delicious account I find interesting and use on a regular basis, not being a heavy use of the internet in todays world I assume the popularity of these sites would increase with the younger heavy web users

The blog is fun and a useful tool however I found it hard to jump on the delicious and flickr band wagon. Yours truly Marsellous

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Whats your favourite film?

Two of some of my favourite films are Fight Club and Snatch. We are yours?

300

I went to see this film the other week and have decided to call it the coolest film since the last cool film. 300 is symbolic for the western world and its war on terrorism or "the middle east". However the film is still worth seen if you enjoy epic battle scenes of carnage and destruction then this is for you.