Hi everyone! I'm "KatieH" I'm majoring in New Media Studies. I plan on Graduating some time at the end of 2011. I am a Program Manager at Deltakedu, a company that handles the online accounts for virtual campuses. I am very passionate about networking and connecting the right people together to create fantastic outcomes. My favorite TV character is Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I'd like to have many questions answered by the end of this course, but off the top of my head, I'd like to know how to incorporate video clips into my websites.
*I also am curious to find out how to create log-ins for pages, and learn about the metrics behind counting the amount of traffic to your site.
Week 3 Tech corner overview:
What is Open Source
Open Source is a term used to
describe software that is available to anyone who wishes to use it
at no cost. How the program was created, and the source code is
available to the user as well. This means if you would like to
modify the software or change it in any way, you are able, and
encouraged to do so. The Open Source Initiative
The open source initiative is a
public benefit corporation, who’s main goal is to promote
awareness of open source software.
Open source doesn’t just mean
access to the source code, it also must meet criteria set in place
by the OSI. In short, the software must basically be openly
available to everyone and have no specific licensing and
redistribution rules.
http://www.opensource.org
Negative of Open Source
Because customization and
modification is encouraged with Open Source software, there is no
way that any type of warranty or technical support can be in place.
Companies like Red Hat Software
(https://www.redhat.com)
Offer Open Source solutions that are packaged with a technical
support and warranty. This way they can charge money for it.
Positive of Open Source
Promotes a community based on
information sharing
No cost alternative to expensive
software programs
Based on the idea that making
source code available will encourage users to make a product better
Website critiques:
Self Critique Project 2-
I plan on designing
Hollandersauce.com, a loving knick name I have had for some time, and
also the name of my Twitter account. It began because I used to work
with someone who’s last name was Gacka, and thus I started calling
him Gacka-mole. He coined the shortened version of Hollandaise Sauce
creating Hollandersauce. I choose this party because it is a unique
play on words of my last name but also both my full name, and alias
of KatieZ had been taken.
I will be following the
laws of simplicity and beginning researching simple designs and
layouts first. The first one I found that directly related to what I
was doing was brynnshepard.com. She is a college student wanting to
display her versatility. I really like the square features that you
can click on to get to her different projects. The navigation is very
simple but it’s almost fun to click through her thumbnails to read
about her different projects. I would like to include similar
thumbnails and break up my different accomplishments.
From the homepage, I would
like to include a page for my resume, a separate page for my graphic
design work, a third for past events and accomplishments and finally
a fourth with some sort of current projects and news page.
My personal learning
objectives in addition to the graded requirements, is to understand
how to place my objects correctly. I have been having initial trouble
in understanding how the concept of formatting is applied when all of
my code runs line per line. I understand adding in a height and width
controls an object, but I need to learn about boundaries and how to
allow centering.
The mock-ups I created in
Photoshop before hand served as excellent skeletons for me to build
my pages into.
http://katieznms.blogspot.com/2010/05/project-2-update.html.
The part of the website I felt worked most successful is the
images used to flip from page to page. I really liked that element in
the beginning and I feel like it makes a lot of sense. I would have
maybe wanted to add a few more design elements, but I did want to
keep it minimal. I also need improvement in validation. I really
learned the most by doing trial and error. I feel like my skills grew
tremendously and I was very surprised and the amount of things
I got stuck at, but was able to figure out the problem and solve it.
I really wished I had a better understanding
of CSS in the regards of centering all of your objects, and also how
to fix the problems I had with validation. Overall im happy with my
site, but very much look forward to tweaking it to look a bit better!
I lost a few <hr>'s in the uploading process.
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