Archive for October, 2007

Activity 303: Designing CSS using NVU

October 12, 2007

NVU is a simple and easy way to design websites and webpages. This is the software we have used today in class to design a simple webpage. It’s a simple and fast way to design websites. Another reason it’s good is because you don’t have to spend much time using the actualy HTML part of [...]

Activity 302: Learning about CSS

October 12, 2007

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Styles define many different things in particular how to display HTML elements. Styles are also usually stored in style sheets. You can then add styles to HTML 4.0 to solve the main problem. External style sheets can usually save you a lot of work in the future. Usually, external [...]

Activity 301: Advantages and Disadvantages of CSS

October 12, 2007

Advantages:
- Styles define how to display HTML Elements
- CSS gives you the opportunity to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your own webpage.
- Styles sheets define HOW HTML elements are to be displayed, just like the font tag and the color attribute in HTML 3.2.
- Style sheets allow style information to be specified in many [...]

Activity 203: Publishing Systems (Facebook)

October 5, 2007

Facebook is a very famous publishing system in which people set up a profile. In this profile they add their closest friends, introduce themselves what they do? information about their education, personal background, current employment and what not. They then add different applications too describe themselves such as car enthusiasts application, fantasy football application, magic [...]

Activity 202: The Creation of a Wiki

October 5, 2007

Pokz14 created PbWiki by accessing the website www.pbwiki.com. This enabled him to then sign up for a wiki page online. That was easily done and pokz14 really didn’t encounter any problems whilst achieving this goal. The main idea for creating a wiki account was to the use it for Blogs in the future and if [...]

Activity 201: RSS Feed

October 5, 2007

RSS Feed is useful because it enables us to view other peoples blog whenever we please and whenever there is something new on them.
We did this by:

downloading a portable version of Mozilla Firefox installation zip file;
we were then asked to unzip it to a convenient folder on our USB key;
 the next step was to start [...]