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To design a nice website it’s not easy, by using HTML there’s alot of code that have to be used and to learn there’s also several website with codes for example W3schools, HTML Code Tutorial, Quick Kit.com and more..

There’s different kind of website, websites for a business or company their layouts will be different from the websites that’s for entertainment or design base.

for example Aardman Animations, it is a site which is about animation, it is much more interesting compare to the others. For business websites, like Iris, a malaysia technology company will have different layouts, which is more serious.

The layout of a website will be able to show the character of the company and more~therefore the layouts are rather important, that’s the first impression for everyone.

After consulting Sean, im thinking of using images in order to bring up the concept of spatial montage from Manovich.

What is spatial montage?

Spatial montage is when the creator able to show and construct a relationship between each frame. The multiple streams of images that appear on the single screen have to share the slice of time and appear on the screen at the same time.

-spatial montage – the use of two images at once, positioned side by side, construct logic that determines which images appear together, when they appear, and what kind of relationships they enter into with one other.
-spatial narrative did not disappear completely in the twentieth century, but rather, like animation, came to be delegated to a minor form of western culture—comics

From Jcasper—http://jcasper-senior-thesis.blogspot.com/2008/09/levmanovich-digital-cinema-and-history.html

To use images to show the example of spatial mongate, i’ve then created an image

the image above it show’s the concept of spatial montage by Lev Manovich, which is using different images and showing it on the same screne at the same time, it’s not just an image, but an images with different angles and position will let the viewer see more and feel more.

Annotation

Youtube had created something new recently, which is adding annotation after you upload your own video, it is interesting and easy to use.

Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos! Use them to:

• Add background information about the video
• Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to choose the next scene)
• Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video
• All of the above

i then tried using youtube to create annotation on my video~:)

The other portfolio that i would like to critique is from :s3154163

http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3154163/portfolio/index.html

Black

I think for this web the font colour of the content does not really suits, red background colour with blue font colour makes me hard to read the content. The site is lack of visual elements.

Yellow

i reckon the layout of this website is good, it is well organized and easy going. Every links link to each other fluently, which is good, and i know where am i and what i’m reading at.

Green

I think changing the font colour of the content to white colour might be much more suitable, because red and blue kinda contrast each other, and may be adding more visual elements, like the plans, graph and more..this will make the site look more attractive and interesting.

The portfolio that i am critiquing is from s3141484..

http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3141484/Portfolio/index.html

Black Hat

For this website, i think the font size is too big, and using white colour font colour i dont think it is suitable, because the background that is used is black and white. The other thing that i find the site’s background is a bit messy, the image doesnt really work well with repeatings. Besides, when the i click on introduction or anything from the homepage, i didn’t get to go back straight to the homepage, which i find it so inconvenient.

Yellow

Well, the thing that i like from this website is the image of the background, and also choice of viewing the essay in a single page, which able to provide convenience to the viewer.

Green

May be for this website, using another size of the background image will be suitable, and if the background colour is black and white, i think it’s better not to use white colour as the font colour, may be using bright colour like..red? The other thing is i think every page of the site should have a link that is able to let the viewer to link back to the homepage.

The product of Apple is getting wider, from the begining, there’s only products for MP3, and then to MP4, and now an iphone with 2g and 3g. For all the following products, they are all link to itunes. Itunes enable the user to buy songs and even movies to play it using the Ipods/Iphone/Itouch.

Itunes is actually a convenient way for the user to buy musics and movie, they do not have to buy the whole album to just listen to one particular song.

ok…im trying to see whether this thing works or not…..wish me luck~~

this is an audio that i’ve created last semester~~

 

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Well after the class of adopt a blog, i found one blog that was presented by one of my classmate quite interesting, which is Access Malaysia Today

There’s actually several reason that i find it quite interesting, first of all im a MALAYSIAN and the blog is about Malaysia, therefore i found it quite interesting!!! and secondly, after listening what my classmate said, i feel the blog itself much more interesting, because she said that the link/name of the blog will always change, whenever the government finds out the exist of the blog, the government will then delete the blog (i find this funny actually).

I reckon, this is why the layout of this blog is simple and plain, and the blog focus on “sending/giving information to the readers”, and also “receiving comments from the residents”. May be through the blog people could understand more about Malaysia’s politics, most of all the “Truth”.

Other than that, in this blog, the audience will be able to have the chance to respond and leave comments. The audiece have the freedom to leave down their thoughts and share it. Which will be able to let the other readers to explore more.

I have then found another politic blogs, which is from Australia, Oz Politics Blog

To compare both of the blogs, they both actually have almost the same layouts, which is plain and full of text. but in the OZ blog, they do not provide a space for the reader to explore and to express, which i think it’s not convenient for the reader, although creating a blog they do have thier own choice to let or not to let the reader to respond to it, but a blog of politics, which always contains some sensitive issues will always raise opinions.

Thinking about the final project that worth quite a lot..

What do i want to make?

At first i thought of the Weblogs…but then when i was thinking of the ideas and stuff.. i realized that i dont really understand and like Weblogs, and then i looked at Manovich, which really make me feel that it is interesting. I then decided to work on Manovich, “Cinematic and Graphic”.

Well i actually agree to what he actually argued..because in the modern century like today, people like to do things fast and quick, and people is greedy, therefore working in multiple form is quite normal right now, looking at different things at the same time is also possible because of our advance of technology. Nothing is impossible right now.

Ideas:

• Using images to make the site more interesting
• look different…but how??…thinking..
• plan to use video…is it possible? …trying..

NOW NOW NOW~~we can upload or download video using the internet…..Thru Youtube or blip.tv..well there’s actually one way for us to download the clips from Youtube….(Make sure you have the right to do it!!!) Thru KeepVid , it is quite easy to download, just paste the link of the video from youtube to the blank, and click download.

Other than that, uploading video is pretty easy too~~ open the file and click uploaod~thn it’s done~~

i’ve upload my own video too~~