HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the skeleton of every website. It is the design of the website in code. Here is an example of a simple website with a title, "My Website", and a sentence, "Hello world!", in HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> <b>My Website</b> </h1>
<hr>
Hello world!
</body>
</html>
This blog is made out of HTML, and I can change the text (Hello) background to white and the text to black by typing in this into Blogger's inbuilt HTML editor:
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hello</span>
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is two-way communication on the Internet. Its predecessor, Web 1.0, only allows one-way communication. In other words, in Web 1.0, a company can post its catalogue online but it must also include its contact information, as consumers cannot give feedback, comments or orders to the company via the corporate website. With Web 2.0, Internet users can reply to hosts, thus allowing the creation of many two-way communication applications, including: social networking, chat, instant messaging, blogs, e-commerce...
Without Web 2.0, our lives will not be as connected and as convenient as today.
Without Web 2.0, our lives will not be as connected and as convenient as today.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Last week, a group of us (Matthew 1i1/21, Quince 1i1/22, Reuben 1i1/23, Yong Gene 1i1/24 and Juan Gee 1i1/25) congregated and did a project about the different types of websites. Please wait for the presentation to fully load before clicking the play button to play our presentation. Hope you will enjoy it!
I feel that our group has done a great job aesthetics-wise, such as using lowercase letters in a big and thin font for headings so that it is easier to read and that our content is clearer to the viewers. Our group utilised sources such as Wikipedia and technical dictionaries. We then further refined our presentation with information from technology websites. We also made sure that we used information that is mentioned in the majority of the sources we have used, thus making the findings more accurate. I would give myself, and everyone in the group, 2 points for our collaborative effort in producing this presentation.
In the 57-slide reading resource, I have learnt these 10 major points about the Internet which I feel are important in my Infocomm Studies learning.
1) The World Wide Web (WWW) was a collaborative project between Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Callilau, and is different from the Internet. The WWW is a collection of electronic files shared worldwide, while the Internet is the network which the WWW operates on.
2) A subject directory is a categorised list of websites and links, and is less popular than a search engine, which uses keywords to search for information instead of categories, thus making it more convenient to search for information. There are a few subject directories remaining today, and the one with the most information is Yahoo! Directory. http://dir.yahoo.com/
3) A domain is the name of a host, and the IP address is the location of the host. The host server can be accessed by either the domain, the IP address or FTP username, if any.
4) We must use affiliation, audience, authority, content, currency, design and objectivity to rate a website. These standards make sure that our website is effective in communicating a message.
5) Originally, I thought multimedia was just audio, photos and videos. Now I understand that multimedia is graphics, animation, audio, video and virtual reality.
6) Virtual reality is the simulation of real or imagined environments through the use of computers, and appears as a 3D space. Some examples are: video games, Google Street View and 3D projections in museums.
7) I had always thought that web publishing is the launch of a website, but it is the development and maintenance of the website. The 5 steps of web publishing are:
i) Plan the website
ii) Analyse and design the website.
iii) Create the website.
iv) Deploy the website.
v) Maintain the website.
8) FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is the guideline where the transfer of data across the Internet follows. The FTP requires users to have usernames, and allows users to send files to other users. An FTP client is a program that allows users to easily move files from one computer to another, and it is inbuilt in Windows OS, Mac OSX and Linux-based OS.
http://personalweb.about.com/od/ftpfileuploadprograms/a/01ftp.htm
9) E-commerce is basically online shopping and transactions. It can be from business to consumer, from consumer to consumer or from business to business. Platforms for e-commerce include: eBay, alibaba, Amazon and online shops.
10) There is a difference between a chat and instant messaging (IM). A chat takes place in a chatroom, and there can be up to 200 members in a chatroom; often strangers. However, IM usually takes place among <5 people. Both chat and IM are real-time messaging.
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/blogchatinstantmessaging/f/email_vs_im.htm
I feel that our group has done a great job aesthetics-wise, such as using lowercase letters in a big and thin font for headings so that it is easier to read and that our content is clearer to the viewers. Our group utilised sources such as Wikipedia and technical dictionaries. We then further refined our presentation with information from technology websites. We also made sure that we used information that is mentioned in the majority of the sources we have used, thus making the findings more accurate. I would give myself, and everyone in the group, 2 points for our collaborative effort in producing this presentation.
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In the 57-slide reading resource, I have learnt these 10 major points about the Internet which I feel are important in my Infocomm Studies learning.
1) The World Wide Web (WWW) was a collaborative project between Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Callilau, and is different from the Internet. The WWW is a collection of electronic files shared worldwide, while the Internet is the network which the WWW operates on.
2) A subject directory is a categorised list of websites and links, and is less popular than a search engine, which uses keywords to search for information instead of categories, thus making it more convenient to search for information. There are a few subject directories remaining today, and the one with the most information is Yahoo! Directory. http://dir.yahoo.com/
3) A domain is the name of a host, and the IP address is the location of the host. The host server can be accessed by either the domain, the IP address or FTP username, if any.
4) We must use affiliation, audience, authority, content, currency, design and objectivity to rate a website. These standards make sure that our website is effective in communicating a message.
5) Originally, I thought multimedia was just audio, photos and videos. Now I understand that multimedia is graphics, animation, audio, video and virtual reality.
6) Virtual reality is the simulation of real or imagined environments through the use of computers, and appears as a 3D space. Some examples are: video games, Google Street View and 3D projections in museums.
7) I had always thought that web publishing is the launch of a website, but it is the development and maintenance of the website. The 5 steps of web publishing are:
i) Plan the website
ii) Analyse and design the website.
iii) Create the website.
iv) Deploy the website.
v) Maintain the website.
8) FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is the guideline where the transfer of data across the Internet follows. The FTP requires users to have usernames, and allows users to send files to other users. An FTP client is a program that allows users to easily move files from one computer to another, and it is inbuilt in Windows OS, Mac OSX and Linux-based OS.
http://personalweb.about.com/od/ftpfileuploadprograms/a/01ftp.htm
9) E-commerce is basically online shopping and transactions. It can be from business to consumer, from consumer to consumer or from business to business. Platforms for e-commerce include: eBay, alibaba, Amazon and online shops.
10) There is a difference between a chat and instant messaging (IM). A chat takes place in a chatroom, and there can be up to 200 members in a chatroom; often strangers. However, IM usually takes place among <5 people. Both chat and IM are real-time messaging.
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/blogchatinstantmessaging/f/email_vs_im.htm
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