Wow... CSS and Templates!

ADVANTAGES OF USING CSS:

An advantage of using CSS is that it allows you to change the design and layout of your web page without affecting the content. CSS is primarily designed to allow you to separate document content (eg HTML) from the document presentation (such as font, colours, background styles, layout etc). This separation can improve content accessibility and enable multiple pages of your website to share formatting. CSS can also allow different styles for different rendering methods of a particular page, such as on-screen, in print, or on Braille-based etc. When viewing web pages, you can choose to view the page in a different style sheet by overriding the one the author has specified.

WHAT CAN BE CHANGED USING TEMPLATES?

Anything that is associated with the design and layout of the page can be changed using a template. Such things are fonts, colours, background styles, element alignments, borders and sizes etc.

WHAT CANNOT BE CHANGED USING TEMPLATES?

The content of the web page (in this case our blogs) does not change when the templates are changed.

WHY IS ACCESSIBILITY WORTH CONSIDERING IN WEBPAGE DESIGN?

Accessibility is about making things accessible to all people including those with disabilities.

CUSTOMIZING MY BLOG

Using the templates i have added the Pacman, YouTube and Digg applications to my blog. I changed the fonts and background colour using the template. I then customized the font colours through HTML. I also thought id throw this clip in for laughts...


So guys thats it for the week....


Cheers

Sweet del.icio.us

My new addiction. So today we were introduced to delicious and i love it! im always bookmarking things i know ill go back to and the stuff i use on a regular basis (to save myself having to type in the url every time). To know that now i can access my bookmarks from anywhere and any computer is very exciting. There have been countless times when i wanted to show someone a site but couldn't remember it.

Check out my del.icio.us

3 of my favorite sites that use tag links are:

1. The #1 Celebrity Gossip Site. Check it out here (this is my daily bible!)
2. Vimeo is the best tool for all us "animators in making" to share our work. Check out my vimeo
3. and of course good ol YouTube


Gone are the days when u have to rely on ur own computer when we have all these new applications that we are discovering in class.

Anyways.... Cheers...

The world of Flicker!

So in todays class we explored Flicker! its seem like a cool application but a lil weird to navigate and use. im a lil embarrassed to say that i found it confusing (anyone else think that?) but once u get going its like most applications and u find ur way around and get the hang of it... im still exploring flickers possibilities and wether its something i will continue to use or trade in after the assessment.


Follow this link to my flicker! The photos of Frankie are a "MUST SEE" people. These definitely fall under the category of 'interestingness'.

What is a Blog? What is a Blogger?

A blog is a website where we can post just about anything we can think of that we may want to share with the world (or just ourselves).

Click HERE for the Wikipedia definition of a Blog.

A blogger is the software (or blogware) designed to make creating and maintaining our blogs EASY.

Click HERE for the Wikipedia definition of a Blogger.

My first post

Hi all,

This is my first blog post ever! Keep a look out on this space for more to come in the future...

Cheers