b.o.r.e.d. - put website up

So im pretty bored right now so thought I would put a link up to my mpi website. There really isn't anything on there yet but meh. I also figured out you can run two websites off the server so I've set another one up for grp223 but haven't put it up yet. Anyway, cool beans. CYA!

ftp - how excitement

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network eg. internet.
Essentially, it is a method of transferring files over ant TCP/IP based network. This allows users to use/alter files on other computers on that network, regardless of the operating system.
Using FTP has its advantages:

• It promotes the sharing of files
• It shields users from Variations in file storage systems among different hosts (all data can be accesses o matter what formats are used)
• Data can be transferred reliably and efficiently.
  

It does however have its downfalls and risks too:

• Eavesdroppers can pickup on file contents and passwords as they are sent in clear text, this can be minimised using secure connections such as SSL.
• It is a high latency protocol
• No data integrity check is performed at receivers end - data may be corrupt.
• The original ftp is a relatively insecure method of data trasnfer as there is no method for data encryption. The risks can be minimised using "either SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), or FTPS (FTP over SSL), which adds SSL or TLS encryption to FTP."

Hope u enjoyed my riveting report. BYE!

assessment 1 summary - pass pass pass pass pass

So this is my summary of mpi104 so far. The subjects essentially revolves around blogger so far, we put everything on it. My blog currently has 7 posts, this will make 8. Umm I wouldn’t say that any of my posts are actually interesting but here’s some links to prob the most interesting ones. Post about del.icio.us, one on my new photos and then one on the wonders of css . Recently I added a few things to my blog. These included the Sydney Morning Herald RSS feed and the flickr feed which can be seen on the right nav bar. I also changed some background and font colours using the html editor, I’ve talked about this in a previous post. Throughout the weeks I have added tags or labels for each post. This makes searching for them easier. I’ve made comments on other peoples blogs too, I can’t remember who’s so I’ve put a link to the mpi104 subject blog which I’ve commented on. The subject has introduced us to html, we made a pretty basic/quick web page, im sure there’s more to come!

The subject also introduced me to gmail and google documents. I’ve always had a gmail account but didn’t use it much and google docs (using right now!) has become very useful for publishing directly to my blog.

Online storage of photos on flickr is something I knew about but wasn’t all that interested in. Since starting mpi I have uploaded 77 photos, most of which are holiday snaps. I’ve now become flickr friends with people I know, commented on/ labelled too many photos and I have 3 sets of photos. My three favourites are; here, here and probably this one, hard to pick.

Another ‘element’ of mpi is del.icio.us. This allows users to store bookmarks online so access can be made wherever you may be. Pretty handy for travellers and busy people…or students. Saves remembering lots of addresses. I have 46 saved bookmarks, most of which are other peoples blogs and sites I regularly visit. Things like eBay and netbanking etc. my three favesss would be eBay, thepiratebay.org and facebook. These interest me because I get cool stuff on eBay, piratebay gives me all my movies/music/software and facebook has consumed my life.

I think that’s pretty much everything!

new flickr photos

Uploaded new photos to flickr the other day, about 60 from my trip to Macau etc. so thought i'd share that little bit of info and post some pics here!

changes

I made some changes to my blog using the html editor. umm changed the main background colour as well as those of the side bars...was gonna change the font but i like it the way it is so just changed the colours of a lot of them. I could have made these changes in the template manager thing but thought I should 'get involved' and use the html editor. A while ago i added the flickr feed to the sidebar as well as the sydney morning herald rss feed. Enjoy!

templates in blogger...

The template editor allows you to change most of the basic elements of your blog. This includes background colours, fonts and their colours. The advantage of the templates is that no html coding is required to change elements as they are predetermined and selectable. This is great for novice users and those that really don't wanna get into the code, allowing them to personalise their blogs.

Template editing using this method may be a little restrictive for some though so html editing is also available. This allows users to change to fonts and colours that may not be available They can also import new images as well as change the shapes of sidebars etc and even rearrange the structure of the page/template.

Using the html editor I changed a few things which i'll explain further in another post! cya!

the wonders of css

So how advantageous is CSS??
CSS allows the user/creator to seperate the design from the content of the page. One of the biggest advantages of CSS is that you can use it to control more than one design element at a time; for instance, you can make it so that all the titles are all one colour/font, then, if you want to change that later on, one change in the style sheet coding alters them all. ANother advantage is the use of external style sheets. Using these designers can implement multiple page designs for the same site without altering the content. Accessibility issues are something CSS is also useful for. Since the content is separate from the design element, accessibility programs access the site with greater ease.

Oh! so looking at the page with no page style makes the page pretty uninteresting! Theres no images. The only colour is in the form of blue hyperlinks and the page layout is non existent when compared to the previous page with styling - no structure!