this is a picture i found at the waterstones exibition i went to this could be useful when im working on interaction as i could use it as part of a project and make the letters move so the user could rite messages or something like fidge magnets
Monday, January 28, 2008
waterstones pictures
this is a picture i found at the waterstones exibition i went to this could be useful when im working on interaction as i could use it as part of a project and make the letters move so the user could rite messages or something like fidge magnets
waterstones pictures
i really liked this picture and think it would be useful in my ideas for future web sites
Monday, January 21, 2008
CSS Colour Codes
the image above shows the colour codes used in css, this is just something i think ill find useful when doin more css within my webpages
Browser Wars
Ok so everyone has there own opinions on browsers at the moment some people rave on about firefox and thats all they will use and others are more towards internet explorer so i thought being a up and coming web designer myself id look into it see what all the fuss is about
Early Browser Wars
In the early 1990s there were many simple browsers available. The first well known and widespead was Mosaic. Several companies licensed it to create their own commercial browsers, such as Spry Mosaic and Spyglass Mosaic.
Marc Andreessen,One of the Mosaic developers, founded the company Mosaic Communications Corporation and created a new web browser named Mosaic Netscape. the company was then renamed Netscape Communications Corporation and the browser Netscape Navigator for legal resons . The Netscape browser improved on Mosaic's usability and reliability, and it soon dominated the market, helped by the fact that "evaluation copies" of the browser were downloadable without restrictions or cost.
First Browser Wars
(this is when good old microsoft kicked in)
By mid-1995, the World Wide Web gradually began receiving a great deal of attention in the popular culture and mass media. Netscape Navigator was the the main web browser at this time, while Microsoft had just licensed Mosaic as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0 which it released as part of the Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! Pack in August 1995. Internet Explorer 2.0 was released three months later, and by then the race was on.
New versions of Netscape Navigator (later Netscape Communicator) and Internet Explorer were released at a rapid pace over the following few years. Features often took priority over bug fixes, and therefore the browser wars were a time of unstable browsers, shaky Web standards compliance, frequent crashes, security holes, and lots of user headaches. Internet Explorer only began to approach par with its competition with version 3.0 (1996), which offered scripting support and the market's first commercial Cascading Style Sheets implementation.
Main Wikipedia page using Internet Explorer 4.0In October 1997, Internet Explorer 4.0 was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter "e" logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found that giant logo on their front lawn, with a sign attached which read "From the IE team." The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading "Netscape 72, Microsoft 18" (representing the market distribution).[1]
Internet Explorer 4 changed the tides of the browser wars. It was faster and it adopted the W3C's published specifications more faithfully than Netscape Navigator 4.0. Unlike Netscape, it provided the possibility for truly "dynamic" pages in which the flow of the text and images of the page could be altered after the page was loaded. Installing Internet Explorer 4.0 was considered as a system upgrade that would provide more capabilities such as MP3 playback and, optionally, the Windows Desktop Update.
During these times it was common for web designers to display 'best viewed in Netscape' or 'best viewed in Internet Explorer' logos. These images often identified a specific browser version and were commonly linked to a source from which the "preferred" browser could be downloaded. To some extent, these logos were indicative of the divergence between the "standards" supported by the browsers and signified which browser was used for testing the pages. Supporters of the notion that web sites should be interoperable with any browser started the "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign.
A lot was at stake for these two companies involved in the browser wars. A popular web browser could earn a great deal of money: search engine companies would bid to be the default tool used in the web browser, and other companies with a web presence would bid to be listed in the default set of bookmarks which was preinstalled with the browser. Since a web browser is a powerful gateway to a great deal of information, the company which controlled this gateway could conceivably have a great deal of influence over its users.
Microsoft had three strong advantages in the browser wars. One was resources: Netscape began with about 80% market share and a good deal of public goodwill, but as a relatively small company deriving the great bulk of its income from what was essentially a single product (Navigator and its derivatives), it was financially vulnerable. Netscape's total revenue never exceeded the interest income generated by Microsoft's cash on hand.[citation needed]
Another advantage was that Microsoft Windows had over 90% share of the operating system market. IE was bundled with every copy of Windows; therefore Microsoft was able to increase its market share. Furthermore IE remained free as the enormous revenues from Windows were used to fund its development and marketing, resulting in rapid improvements.
Thirdly it was faster and it adopted the W3C's published specifications more faithfully than Netscape Navigator 4.0. Unlike Netscape, it provided the possibility for truly "dynamic" pages in which the flow of the text and images of the page could be altered after the page was loaded.
Other Microsoft actions also hurt Netscape, such as:
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in web-authoring modeMicrosoft created a licensing agreement with AOL to base AOL's primary interface on IE rather than Netscape.
Microsoft purchased and released a web authoring tool, FrontPage, making it easy to utilise proprietary extensions and non-standard HTML code in web pages.
Microsoft included support for CSS in IE. Some web designers found it easier to write their pages for IE only than to support Netscape's proprietary LAYER extensions.
Microsoft locked up a large portion of the Macintosh browser market in 1997 as part of its agreement with Apple that year. The agreement made Internet Explorer the default browser on the Mac for five years.
The effect of these actions were to "cut off Netscape's air supply" as stated by a Microsoft executive during the United States v. Microsoft case. This, together with several bad business decisions on Netscape's part, led to Netscape's defeat by the end of 1998, after which the company was acquired by America Online for USD $4.2 billion. Internet Explorer became the new dominant browser, attaining a peak of about 96% of the web browser usage share during 2002, more than Netscape had at its peak.
The first browser war ended when Internet Explorer ceased to have any serious competition for its market share. This also brought an end to the rapid innovation in web browsers; until 2006 there was only one new version of Internet Explorer since version 6.0 was released in 2001. Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 was developed as part of Windows XP SP2, and integrated into Windows Server 2003 SP1.
Consequences
The browser wars encouraged two specific kinds of behavior among their combatants.
Adding new features instead of fixing bugs: A web browser had to have more new features than its competition, or else it would be considered to be "falling behind." But with limited manpower to put towards development, this often meant that quality assurance suffered and that the software was released with serious bugs[citation needed].
Adding proprietary features instead of obeying standards: A web browser was expected to follow the standards set down by standards committees (for example, by adhering to the HTML specifications). But competition and innovation required that web browsers extend the standards with proprietary features without waiting for committee approval. Sometimes these extensions led to useful techniques that were adopted by other browsers, such as the XMLHttpRequest technology that resulted in Ajax. More often than not, however, these extensions proved harmful.
Support for web standards was severely weakened[citation needed]. For years, innovation in web development stagnated as developers had to use obsolete and unnecessarily complex techniques to ensure their pages would render properly in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator 4 and IE6 lacked full compliance with several standards, such as CSS and the PNG image format.
The near-universal adoption of Internet Explorer had also created a monoculture which has widened the damage done by malicious code.
Since Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004, Mozilla and Mozilla-based browsers have established a growing niche in the browser market.
In 2003, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP1 would be the last standalone version of its browser. Future enhancements would be dependent on Windows Vista, which will include new tools such as the Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML to enable developers to build extensive web applications.
In response, in April 2004 the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software joined efforts to develop new open technology standards which add more capability while remaining backward-compatible with existing technologies.[2] The result of this collaboration was WHATWG, a working group devoted to the fast creation of new standard definitions which will then be submitted to the W3C for approval.
In February 2005, Microsoft announced that IE 7 would be available for Windows XP SP2 and later versions of Windows by mid-2005.[3] The announcement introduced the new version of the browser as a major upgrade over IE 6 SP1.
Internet Explorer 7 was finally released in October 2006. It included features such as the tabbed browsing seen in Opera version 2, a search bar, and improved support for web standards. Additionally, it included a phishing filter and a new GUI redesign. Microsoft distributed Internet Explorer 7 to genuine Windows users as a high priority update through Microsoft Update.[4] Typical market share analysis showed slow uptake of Internet Explorer 7, and after statistics in September 2007 from w3schools.com showed Firefox at 35.4% had taken over from Internet Explorer 6 at 34.9% as the most popular browser[5] with Internet Explorer 7 lagging behind in third place at 20.8%, Microsoft dropped the requirement for Windows Genuine Advantage for Internet Explorer 7 one year later, in October 2007.[6]
Firefox 2.0, launched in late October 2006, also included a phishing filter and GUI redesign, as well as a spell-checker for text fields and several other new features.
On the 11 June 2007, Apple officially entered the second browser war by releasing a BETA version of their Safari 3 browser for Microsoft Windows. Whether or not this browser will become an important factor in the browser wars is yet to be seen.[7]
On 2007-12-28, Netscape developers announced that they will discontinue their web browser on February 1, 2008.[8]
Other browser competition
Microsoft Windows
Although it currently only has a small desktop usage share, Opera is the third most popular browser on Windows (it is also available on other platforms, including Linux, Mac OS, the Nintendo DS and the Wii). In September 2005, Opera removed the ad banner and licensing fee from their browser with the release of Opera 8.5. Their stated goal was to replace Firefox as the second most used web browser. In June, 2007, Apple's Safari browser was released for Windows in beta form.
Other notable browsers for Windows are Netscape 8 (an Internet Explorer/Firefox hybrid), and SeaMonkey (a replacement for the Mozilla Application Suite). Front ends for the IE shell like Maxthon, Avant Browser and Enigma Browser that added features like tabbed browsing to IE were once popular, but with the advent of Internet Explorer 7, are falling out of use. Internet Explorer 7 now also includes tabbed browsing.
Linux and Unix
The Unix-based Konqueror browser is part of the KDE project and is the primary competitor against Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox, Mozilla/SeaMonkey, Epiphany, Galeon, etc.) for market share on Unix-like systems. Konqueror's KHTML engine is an API for the KDE desktop. Derivative browsers and web-browsing functionality (for example, Amarok has a Wikipedia sidebar that gives information about the current artist) based on KDE use KHTML.
Mac OS
Safari is Apple's web browser and is the most popular web browser for Mac OS X The web browser is based on KHTML. Other browsers include Shiira, and OmniWeb, which use the API WebKit, and many Macintosh programs are adding web-browsing functionality.[11]
Camino is a Mozilla-based browser for the Mac OS X platform, and uses Mac's native Cocoa interface like Safari does, instead of Mozilla's XUL which is used in Firefox.
[edit] Mobile devices
Opera Mini is a popular web browser on mobile devices such as most J2ME Java enabled internet connected dumbphones and smartphones because of its small footprint. Opera Mobile for smartphones main competition is from Netfront. PC Site Viewer, the web browser included on many Japanese cellular phones, is based on Opera. In February, 2006 it was announced that Nintendo "will release an add-on card" with a version of Opera for the Nintendo DS (Nintendo DS Browser).[12]. This DS browser has since been criticised for its lack of Flash support and slowness. Opera is also used as a web browser on the Wii console.
Windows Mobile comes with Pocket Internet Explorer by default and competes with Opera Mobile, Netfront and Mozilla's Minimo.
Safari, Apple's browser based on WebKit/KHTML, comes with iPhone and iPod Touch.
Early Browser Wars
In the early 1990s there were many simple browsers available. The first well known and widespead was Mosaic. Several companies licensed it to create their own commercial browsers, such as Spry Mosaic and Spyglass Mosaic.
Marc Andreessen,One of the Mosaic developers, founded the company Mosaic Communications Corporation and created a new web browser named Mosaic Netscape. the company was then renamed Netscape Communications Corporation and the browser Netscape Navigator for legal resons . The Netscape browser improved on Mosaic's usability and reliability, and it soon dominated the market, helped by the fact that "evaluation copies" of the browser were downloadable without restrictions or cost.
First Browser Wars
(this is when good old microsoft kicked in)
By mid-1995, the World Wide Web gradually began receiving a great deal of attention in the popular culture and mass media. Netscape Navigator was the the main web browser at this time, while Microsoft had just licensed Mosaic as the basis of Internet Explorer 1.0 which it released as part of the Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! Pack in August 1995. Internet Explorer 2.0 was released three months later, and by then the race was on.
New versions of Netscape Navigator (later Netscape Communicator) and Internet Explorer were released at a rapid pace over the following few years. Features often took priority over bug fixes, and therefore the browser wars were a time of unstable browsers, shaky Web standards compliance, frequent crashes, security holes, and lots of user headaches. Internet Explorer only began to approach par with its competition with version 3.0 (1996), which offered scripting support and the market's first commercial Cascading Style Sheets implementation.
Main Wikipedia page using Internet Explorer 4.0In October 1997, Internet Explorer 4.0 was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter "e" logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found that giant logo on their front lawn, with a sign attached which read "From the IE team." The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading "Netscape 72, Microsoft 18" (representing the market distribution).[1]
Internet Explorer 4 changed the tides of the browser wars. It was faster and it adopted the W3C's published specifications more faithfully than Netscape Navigator 4.0. Unlike Netscape, it provided the possibility for truly "dynamic" pages in which the flow of the text and images of the page could be altered after the page was loaded. Installing Internet Explorer 4.0 was considered as a system upgrade that would provide more capabilities such as MP3 playback and, optionally, the Windows Desktop Update.
During these times it was common for web designers to display 'best viewed in Netscape' or 'best viewed in Internet Explorer' logos. These images often identified a specific browser version and were commonly linked to a source from which the "preferred" browser could be downloaded. To some extent, these logos were indicative of the divergence between the "standards" supported by the browsers and signified which browser was used for testing the pages. Supporters of the notion that web sites should be interoperable with any browser started the "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign.
A lot was at stake for these two companies involved in the browser wars. A popular web browser could earn a great deal of money: search engine companies would bid to be the default tool used in the web browser, and other companies with a web presence would bid to be listed in the default set of bookmarks which was preinstalled with the browser. Since a web browser is a powerful gateway to a great deal of information, the company which controlled this gateway could conceivably have a great deal of influence over its users.
Microsoft had three strong advantages in the browser wars. One was resources: Netscape began with about 80% market share and a good deal of public goodwill, but as a relatively small company deriving the great bulk of its income from what was essentially a single product (Navigator and its derivatives), it was financially vulnerable. Netscape's total revenue never exceeded the interest income generated by Microsoft's cash on hand.[citation needed]
Another advantage was that Microsoft Windows had over 90% share of the operating system market. IE was bundled with every copy of Windows; therefore Microsoft was able to increase its market share. Furthermore IE remained free as the enormous revenues from Windows were used to fund its development and marketing, resulting in rapid improvements.
Thirdly it was faster and it adopted the W3C's published specifications more faithfully than Netscape Navigator 4.0. Unlike Netscape, it provided the possibility for truly "dynamic" pages in which the flow of the text and images of the page could be altered after the page was loaded.
Other Microsoft actions also hurt Netscape, such as:
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 in web-authoring modeMicrosoft created a licensing agreement with AOL to base AOL's primary interface on IE rather than Netscape.
Microsoft purchased and released a web authoring tool, FrontPage, making it easy to utilise proprietary extensions and non-standard HTML code in web pages.
Microsoft included support for CSS in IE. Some web designers found it easier to write their pages for IE only than to support Netscape's proprietary LAYER extensions.
Microsoft locked up a large portion of the Macintosh browser market in 1997 as part of its agreement with Apple that year. The agreement made Internet Explorer the default browser on the Mac for five years.
The effect of these actions were to "cut off Netscape's air supply" as stated by a Microsoft executive during the United States v. Microsoft case. This, together with several bad business decisions on Netscape's part, led to Netscape's defeat by the end of 1998, after which the company was acquired by America Online for USD $4.2 billion. Internet Explorer became the new dominant browser, attaining a peak of about 96% of the web browser usage share during 2002, more than Netscape had at its peak.
The first browser war ended when Internet Explorer ceased to have any serious competition for its market share. This also brought an end to the rapid innovation in web browsers; until 2006 there was only one new version of Internet Explorer since version 6.0 was released in 2001. Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 was developed as part of Windows XP SP2, and integrated into Windows Server 2003 SP1.
Consequences
The browser wars encouraged two specific kinds of behavior among their combatants.
Adding new features instead of fixing bugs: A web browser had to have more new features than its competition, or else it would be considered to be "falling behind." But with limited manpower to put towards development, this often meant that quality assurance suffered and that the software was released with serious bugs[citation needed].
Adding proprietary features instead of obeying standards: A web browser was expected to follow the standards set down by standards committees (for example, by adhering to the HTML specifications). But competition and innovation required that web browsers extend the standards with proprietary features without waiting for committee approval. Sometimes these extensions led to useful techniques that were adopted by other browsers, such as the XMLHttpRequest technology that resulted in Ajax. More often than not, however, these extensions proved harmful.
Support for web standards was severely weakened[citation needed]. For years, innovation in web development stagnated as developers had to use obsolete and unnecessarily complex techniques to ensure their pages would render properly in Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator 4 and IE6 lacked full compliance with several standards, such as CSS and the PNG image format.
The near-universal adoption of Internet Explorer had also created a monoculture which has widened the damage done by malicious code.
Since Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004, Mozilla and Mozilla-based browsers have established a growing niche in the browser market.
In 2003, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP1 would be the last standalone version of its browser. Future enhancements would be dependent on Windows Vista, which will include new tools such as the Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML to enable developers to build extensive web applications.
In response, in April 2004 the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software joined efforts to develop new open technology standards which add more capability while remaining backward-compatible with existing technologies.[2] The result of this collaboration was WHATWG, a working group devoted to the fast creation of new standard definitions which will then be submitted to the W3C for approval.
In February 2005, Microsoft announced that IE 7 would be available for Windows XP SP2 and later versions of Windows by mid-2005.[3] The announcement introduced the new version of the browser as a major upgrade over IE 6 SP1.
Internet Explorer 7 was finally released in October 2006. It included features such as the tabbed browsing seen in Opera version 2, a search bar, and improved support for web standards. Additionally, it included a phishing filter and a new GUI redesign. Microsoft distributed Internet Explorer 7 to genuine Windows users as a high priority update through Microsoft Update.[4] Typical market share analysis showed slow uptake of Internet Explorer 7, and after statistics in September 2007 from w3schools.com showed Firefox at 35.4% had taken over from Internet Explorer 6 at 34.9% as the most popular browser[5] with Internet Explorer 7 lagging behind in third place at 20.8%, Microsoft dropped the requirement for Windows Genuine Advantage for Internet Explorer 7 one year later, in October 2007.[6]
Firefox 2.0, launched in late October 2006, also included a phishing filter and GUI redesign, as well as a spell-checker for text fields and several other new features.
On the 11 June 2007, Apple officially entered the second browser war by releasing a BETA version of their Safari 3 browser for Microsoft Windows. Whether or not this browser will become an important factor in the browser wars is yet to be seen.[7]
On 2007-12-28, Netscape developers announced that they will discontinue their web browser on February 1, 2008.[8]
Other browser competition
Microsoft Windows
Although it currently only has a small desktop usage share, Opera is the third most popular browser on Windows (it is also available on other platforms, including Linux, Mac OS, the Nintendo DS and the Wii). In September 2005, Opera removed the ad banner and licensing fee from their browser with the release of Opera 8.5. Their stated goal was to replace Firefox as the second most used web browser. In June, 2007, Apple's Safari browser was released for Windows in beta form.
Other notable browsers for Windows are Netscape 8 (an Internet Explorer/Firefox hybrid), and SeaMonkey (a replacement for the Mozilla Application Suite). Front ends for the IE shell like Maxthon, Avant Browser and Enigma Browser that added features like tabbed browsing to IE were once popular, but with the advent of Internet Explorer 7, are falling out of use. Internet Explorer 7 now also includes tabbed browsing.
Linux and Unix
The Unix-based Konqueror browser is part of the KDE project and is the primary competitor against Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox, Mozilla/SeaMonkey, Epiphany, Galeon, etc.) for market share on Unix-like systems. Konqueror's KHTML engine is an API for the KDE desktop. Derivative browsers and web-browsing functionality (for example, Amarok has a Wikipedia sidebar that gives information about the current artist) based on KDE use KHTML.
Mac OS
Safari is Apple's web browser and is the most popular web browser for Mac OS X The web browser is based on KHTML. Other browsers include Shiira, and OmniWeb, which use the API WebKit, and many Macintosh programs are adding web-browsing functionality.[11]
Camino is a Mozilla-based browser for the Mac OS X platform, and uses Mac's native Cocoa interface like Safari does, instead of Mozilla's XUL which is used in Firefox.
[edit] Mobile devices
Opera Mini is a popular web browser on mobile devices such as most J2ME Java enabled internet connected dumbphones and smartphones because of its small footprint. Opera Mobile for smartphones main competition is from Netfront. PC Site Viewer, the web browser included on many Japanese cellular phones, is based on Opera. In February, 2006 it was announced that Nintendo "will release an add-on card" with a version of Opera for the Nintendo DS (Nintendo DS Browser).[12]. This DS browser has since been criticised for its lack of Flash support and slowness. Opera is also used as a web browser on the Wii console.
Windows Mobile comes with Pocket Internet Explorer by default and competes with Opera Mobile, Netfront and Mozilla's Minimo.
Safari, Apple's browser based on WebKit/KHTML, comes with iPhone and iPod Touch.
Portfolios
so i had my review and i was told i have to make a portfolio and fast if i wanted to get work experience for the summer so firstly i need some ideas so i thought id have a look at some other portifolios on
and i found some really good work especially this one who is made by a french girl
i really really like her work the colour and the funkyness of the whole style i think im goin to aim for mine to be as funky and as fresh as hers. its just ace
and i found some really good work especially this one who is made by a french girl
i really really like her work the colour and the funkyness of the whole style i think im goin to aim for mine to be as funky and as fresh as hers. its just ace
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Designer MIlNI
I love this its like me dream
When lookinfg at interaction this week i was look through some websites and how the user can interact with them wen i came across this which i love becuase its me dream to have a mini.
the site is amazing too its really really addictive and its quite simple to use its all bout designing the roof of your mini you can also save your designs and im sure if you had enough money they would actually do it for you too.
When lookinfg at interaction this week i was look through some websites and how the user can interact with them wen i came across this which i love becuase its me dream to have a mini.
the site is amazing too its really really addictive and its quite simple to use its all bout designing the roof of your mini you can also save your designs and im sure if you had enough money they would actually do it for you too.
Ibar
this is a really good example of touch screens and how they can be used for interaction. this is how the simple screens can be used to make every day things more interestin and interactive. i think its fab!
Touch Screens
this is a really good example of touch screens and how they can be used for interaction.
Interaction Design 1
So im looking at the way in which people interact with the computer and thinking of more ways in which people can communicate with the computer in a more conventional way than just using a key board and a mouse
Firstly i looked at lots of websits that used alot of interection and theses are a few i liked
Firstly i looked at lots of websits that used alot of interection and theses are a few i liked
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Kick Starting My Career
Right so i had my Review yesterday and it went really well and gave me the Kick up the arse i needed in order to make me star my career and get the ball rolling becuse i have loads and loads of really good ideas and loads of designes ideas but i just need to make things happen now so im doin loads of designs for my own brand and looking at other peoples bands and portfoilos to get some ideas and im also looking into further geting my own domain name so here goes!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
WebSafe Colours
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Myspace Vs Facebook!
i found this video of this american guy talking about Myspace Vs Facebook!
and as a frequent user of both in my time i decided to add it to my blog and add my little opionion so here goes!
as i said i have used them both for me it all started with myspace i just happened to sumble across it one day then more and more people got involved so newly single i thought yeah not so i made a myspace account. i was such a looser at first i didnt have a clue what i was doin then kept giving up and leaving it for months then wen i finally got to know what i was doin and understanding what was goin on in this lil myspace world that i had now created i began to like it and be more adventureous and adding more and more peoples info,colours, background, and music i was addicted then that was it no more essays it was all bout the myspace and i met a gud few people on it that we're that much of complete wierdos so it was all fun really then it changed and became even more techinal and new and trying to impress us and compete with the new networking websites that are now available such as bebo and facebook and now i think it has ruined it and now i only go on when i really really have to.
this is where facebook comes in....I started using facebook just recently after getting board of facebook again in the same way as myspace it was word of mouth that first made me come across facebook everyone started doin it and like a little sheep that i am i followed. then that was it really i was hooked instantly. I find now im on facebook almost 24 hrs a day its getting really bad. i think it has a few more pluses that myspace such as the events you can set up an event or a nite out in a matter of seconds which is a great way of getting everyone together and communicating at the same time. i use it so much most of the time i facebook more than i text as i know that all my mates will be on facebook at some point in the day! it started off just as a student thing and now my mum is using it at work and also to keep tabs on wot im up to. another plus of facebook is that you can have tags on your photos so you can see who exactly who is it passed out drunk on the floor or pullin such a drunken face that without a tag you would have a clue who it is!
Don't get me wrong it does have some down points to balance the arguement Facebook has far too many things for you to do like quizzes and applications that are crap and full up ur page so by the time u get to peoples wall u get bord and also it would be good to have some kinda bak ground colour or something
so in evaluation the this dissgussion i think facebook is the place to go it is the future every has to get involved!!!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Colours And Branding
Colours are really important when advertising as it is very important to use the right colours to attract people and give the right impression colours can have all sorts of effects on people such as mcdonalds use prominat primary colours because its ment to make you feel hungury and when coca cola brought santa claus he was green then he turned to red after they took over!
so im keeping all these points in mind when thinkin about my brand and the colours im goin to use when creating my website and creating other exturnal work
so im keeping all these points in mind when thinkin about my brand and the colours im goin to use when creating my website and creating other exturnal work
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Colours
Colours are very very important when designing for the web for a number reason not only do they have to be asseble for everyone but colours can have lots of differnt meanings to different people. for example red can be used for danger and anger to some people to other it could mean love and romance.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Take That Video
this is the take that beautiful world tour 2007 now i no this probably has nothing to do with multimedia but im goin to try and make it becuase i went to seee this tour twice and having been to see take that a good few times since i was about 7 years old i hthink i have enough take that knowledge to make that judgement (this is also another attempt to keep me doin my bloggs for im getting a little bord of talking about networks and databases now wans what better way to brightner up my blog!) i can do this i think by talking about the lights and the effects the they were both amazing it was by far the best tour yet and some of the effects are outstanding like the clubbing beemin lights that filled the whole arena during "Give Good Feeling". the disco ball in the middle of the area was used to make different effects during songs such as "Rule the World" where it was a made to look like globe and Could it be Magic where there were there things around it that held the dancers who spinkeled feathers onto the platform below it was just amazing! Then last but not least they did Never Forget where it was like a huge screen that showed there animated characters walking down a hill so they started off really big and then ended up normal size then they walked out of this huge screen it looked really really effective.
Hope this kind of makes this video a little more about multimedia!!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
SPP2 Reading List Task
I don't really know if this is on the readin list but its on vlp and David Downes told us to read so i have done and its turning into my flash bible.
Its called Using ActionScript 3.0 Components and it is really helpful when using actionscript 3 rather that actionscrpt 2, this covers all the components within the cs3 program so theres everything you neeed to know, this is handy as when you have gone from knewing the old flash porgram its difficult when you are tryin to do something and you know what it is and how to do it in the old flash well this guide tell you exactly what to do. Another reason why i found this guide usefull as it has screenshots and the information is very clear and easy to follow, it contains screenshots and code that you can use to play around with until you get the right code your looking for which is very handy when your learning a new program. i used this alot when doing my first peice of coursework and it really helped me get to grips withe be new flash. another factor that was helpful for me is that its online all the time this means i dont have to carry a heavy book around all day everyday its always there also i have printed a hard copy as i am less likely to learn from ths when its on the computer as i will just use the bits i need and leave the rest so with having a hard copy as well i can go throw it properly and highlight the useful bits that i may need in the future.
Its called Using ActionScript 3.0 Components and it is really helpful when using actionscript 3 rather that actionscrpt 2, this covers all the components within the cs3 program so theres everything you neeed to know, this is handy as when you have gone from knewing the old flash porgram its difficult when you are tryin to do something and you know what it is and how to do it in the old flash well this guide tell you exactly what to do. Another reason why i found this guide usefull as it has screenshots and the information is very clear and easy to follow, it contains screenshots and code that you can use to play around with until you get the right code your looking for which is very handy when your learning a new program. i used this alot when doing my first peice of coursework and it really helped me get to grips withe be new flash. another factor that was helpful for me is that its online all the time this means i dont have to carry a heavy book around all day everyday its always there also i have printed a hard copy as i am less likely to learn from ths when its on the computer as i will just use the bits i need and leave the rest so with having a hard copy as well i can go throw it properly and highlight the useful bits that i may need in the future.
Tiles
The Tile Machine
this is website that helps when learning about working with small spaces within the web. its called the tile machine and allows you to design and create your own tiles its really gud when getting used to working in small spaces within a webpage or those little icons at the side of the web addresses which i have totally forgot the name of. this website is really fun and addictive as well as useful so give it a go!
this is website that helps when learning about working with small spaces within the web. its called the tile machine and allows you to design and create your own tiles its really gud when getting used to working in small spaces within a webpage or those little icons at the side of the web addresses which i have totally forgot the name of. this website is really fun and addictive as well as useful so give it a go!
Pixel Art
Pixel Art is something that we did also when thinking about designing in small spaces its all about pixels which all little dots the make up an image to design and create images like this is very time consumin and not very effective but it is something that is used on the web so i might as well have a go
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