MPI-104 Assessment 3

Hey guys!...

So it is almost coming to an end of my First semester of my first year. And my class of MPI-104 is almost over!!..

So this post is about what I’ve done and what I’ve learnt within my MPI-104 class.

Blogger!

So in my blogger I have fiddled around with quite a few templates throughout the semester deciding on what to do for my blog and how to set it out. The Default backgrounds for blogger were ok but not what I really wanted then when customizing with my own images I found it a challenge to make it so that things were easy to read and the background didn’t distract from that.  By adding extra elements like a counter and RSS feed that I learnt how to do it had added to customisation.

Overall blogger has been pretty interesting to learn about and use for this semester.

Flickr!

Flickr has helped me a lot this term with my animation and photography stuff and posting on my class’s forum. It was easy enough to understand from the start and the different folders I made helped me distinguish what class is what. I learned the importance of tagging images and if I didn’t not create them personally (which I did) to source where I got it from. I found looking through other peoples photos really interesting and inspiring with some of their creations that they made themselves.

Flicker was probably my favourite social networking site to work on this semester apart from only being able to add very small videos and not many it has been a great experience

Delicious!

What can I say about delicious. I learnt how it is easier to keep track of the sites I visit if they are all put into one stack. The importance of tagging all my links with tags. I found that looking through groups stacks were very interesting seeing some of the websites and links other people visit like digital art and photography. So overall while I would not normally use delicious outside my class like I would with the others I still understand the importance of it and why it is popular.

I have also tried to link all my pages together by continuously blogging about my other social media sites. I learnt for people to be interested in things that there must be a break between paragraphs

MPI-104 –

So overall within my mpi104 class important things I have learnt are;

Importance of original customization

Importance of tagging

Importance of the different social media

Importance of sourcing work if it isn’t original

Importance of creating links to go to other pages

Importance of HTML and CSS coding

And

How to code HTML for a website

How to code CSS for a website

Animation Update!!

so im sure you are aware of the imminent assignment of my animation that is due next week :S  im pretty worried but i am finally getting somewhere on my animation i have the first few shots that havent got proper transitions but here we go!!

you can also view my title sequence on my Flickr along with some other art stuff :D :D

My new Photography

Evening People of the interwebs!

i have just completed my assignment for VPA-104 aka my photography assignment you should all check it out on my Flickr account here!!

So my Semester is coming to an end in the next week or two and i will mostlikely not be posting for a while...

lets just hope i pass everything :D

My HTML Website

Hey guys,

So of course I’m sure as you should know by now I am an animator in my First year at CSU doing a Bachelor of Arts (Animation and Visual Effects.)

At the moment I have been currently working on a HTML website for a Subject called MPI-104. So here is what I’ve done!

The Trials & Tribulations of Creating my HTML Website;

Originally I had not realised how hard it was to create a website that actually looked relatively okay within using just a notepad application. It was fairly confusing trying to get a hang of the original coding and if it wasn't for w3schools.com I don’t think I would have been able to manage getting the look I did.

To start off I had to figure out how to use a CSS code sheet properly, it took me a while to get used to the different style of code but once there I figured it out pretty quickly. I learned how to position my background image and repeat it so that it would only get down the right hand side of the page. This I thought gave me a relatively styled outline for the whole website so I could have a fair amount of information but not enough to give the “readers” an information overload.

I created a simple black style with green writing so that it stands out, I am particularly partial of the linking page to my Blogger, Flickr and Delicious, I think that having the frames in a single page can help the “readers” find more about me just by scrolling through them even though there are link on my about me homepage.

Another thing I really like about my website is my portfolio page in general. I think the alignment of the images although slightly haphazard is still in an orderly style and the image rollover with the little caption that comes up is handy to tell people what the image is.

So in conclusion I learnt that without w3schools helping me with the coding of both HTML and CSS I would almost definitely be lost and without a website, I also learnt that it takes a while to get a reasonable looking website and that without the right order of code or if you have any code missing the work is that much harder because you have to sift through more code to see what works and what doesn’t when you’re trying to change it.

anyway enough of this boring talk about HTML.

Remember going to the store that i posted a small time ago?

Well... surprisingly i found something EVEN BETTER!!...

its called Nigel's going to the store and is quite possibly my two favorite things put together!!