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!

del.icio.us

So i'd heard of del.icio.us before this subject and understood what it was and did but never really saw the need for it as most of the internet stuff i do, i do on my own computer. Aaaanyway, i can really see the use in it, especially for students and travellers as they may never know what computer they might be using next...saves remembering all those sites, more room up there for stupid stuff.

Well, heres my del.icio.us account.

..found three other sites that are similar to del.icio.us (so sick of typing that!) they are....drumroll:
Furl
Digg
Post Toaster
All three are pretty similar..digg is more community/blog based...i guess.

Not much else to report...cya next term!

flickr!

Ummm...flickr. It seems like a pretty cool site, i dunno if i'd ever use it for anything outside of this subject though. It would be a good way to share photos with family or something but i'd probably prefer to use something like facebook for that. It seems well layed out and reasonably user friendly, i'm still not totally 'one' with it though.

Well, here's the link to my account. I've also attached one of my photos I uploaded to it.

1st Post!

Hiiii..
So i totally saw the new Rambo movie the other day...it was honestly one of the goriest/greatest movies i've ever seen.
SO, here's a link to the trailer. Watch it, you'll wanna see it: Rambo!!

Enjoy the blog!! That is all