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August 18, 2010

Adding a table

Filed under: Network Media 2010 — Tags: — admin @ 7:30 pm

How do I wirte a talbe in HTML?

HTML Tables

Tables are defined with the <table> tag. A table is divided into rows (with the <tr> tag), and each row is divided into data cells (with the <td> tag). td stands for “table data,” and holds the content of a data cell. A <td> tag can contain text, links, images, lists, forms, other tables, etc.

Base on the tutorial, I write a little table here.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
COMM2219 & COMM2219 Lecture COMM1086 & COMM2413 Lecture COMM1086 Tutorial COMM2219 Lab COMM2413 Tutorial & COMM2220 Workshop

August 17, 2010

HTML and CSS

Filed under: Network Media 2010 — Tags: — admin @ 8:08 pm

I only have little concept of HTML, it is so hard to learn, so I try to search some helpfull tutorial over the internet.

I found so many sites that teaching your HTML, and actually it was so many of them that I did not which one I should rely on. After spending much time of reading, I decided to rely on this website http://www.w3schools.com/html/ However, the website suggest that CSS should be learned with HTML if your webpage looks more organized. Then I went to search what the CSS acutally is, this is what I found

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

OK, this is more than I can understand now, I think I would prefer just sick with HTML only. LOL

What is Blog and Why we should learn it

Filed under: Network Media 2010 — Tags: — admin @ 7:43 pm

I have no idea what the Blog is until I found this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

A blog (a blend of the term “web log“)[1] is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. [2]

Now I know it is another way of communication after Email、BBS and IM. People can easily post their diaries, thinking, status and even photos, videos on their blog, this is a more effective way to communicate with your friends and family even people that you do not know. You can customerize your blog’s home page, design your layout and even plug in background music.

Here is the history of the blog.

The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger[4] on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used “blog” as both a noun and verb (”to blog,” meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”) and devised the term “blogger” in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[8]

I am not interested in the blog’s history at all, I am only interested in the function and the way it communicate with my firends. I think it is really cool and a technic that I would love to use in the future.

August 16, 2010

China mudslide

Filed under: Extra Information — Tags: — admin @ 9:49 pm

There was a mudslide in  north-west country of China on 8 Aug  this year. A huge rush of mud and water engulfed the town of Zhouqu caused by  heavy rains and landslides. Thousands of people are trapped alive under boulders, trees and broken buildings.

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Chinese Authorities gathered thousands of rescue people to search bodies and rescue survivors, it is now more than 1000 people have been confirmed dead and more than 500 are missing.

Authorities are reportedly struggling to find enough coffins to bury those they have already found. Disinfectant is being sprayed widely throughout the disaster zone to stifle an outbreak of disease as summer temperatures soar. More flash flooding has been forecast for the area in the week ahead.

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Being a Chinese, I really wish I could be there to give my support to these people, however, I can only provide limited help from here by donating some money.  There are many videos regarding the disaster and live reports. After this disaster happened, the whole nation has given help to the Zhouqu people, deliverying material and love to them and this is something that really touching.

China has been suffered many disasters since earth quake in szechuan 2008. I really hope that there will not be any more disasters but happiness in this world.

Reference

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories

August 8, 2010

Yellow Manager—Cyberduck

Filed under: Network Media 2010 — Tags: — admin @ 9:01 pm

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Before the lab in this week, i ever know there is a clever software “hide” in Macbook—Cyberduck.

It is a popular free and open source FTP client for the Mac. It is developed by David V. Kocher, and has been used extensively by Mac users since 2003. Cyberduck isn’t simply another knock-off FTP client, rather it takes a very Mac-like approach to file transfer.

All characteristics are here:

  • Secure file transfers with Secure FTP and FTP-SSL.
  • Easy file management with cut and paste as well as drag and drop.
  • File previews so you can view the files before you download them.
  • Password-less authentication with ssh keys.
  • Password integration with the Mac Keychain.

Futher more, this website has some extra links about this software.

http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/reviews/16036.aspx

Reference:http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/30_best_mac_apps_you%E2%80%99ve_never_heard?page=0,1

Amazing HTML

Filed under: Network Media 2010 — Tags: — admin @ 8:02 pm

At the beginning of our last semester, there was a chapter about Hyper Text,which introduced several parts of it. Let’s  study more deeper in this semester. We are not noly study the theory of it, but also practice and apply it.

I have scaned related websites and collected some resources as following:

What is HTML?

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
  • HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
  • A markup language is a set of markup tags
  • HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML Tags

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

  • HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
  • HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
  • The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
  • Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

HTML Documents = Web Pages

  • HTML documents describe web pages
  • HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
  • HTML documents are also called web pages

The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page:

<html>
<body><h1>My First bread.</h1>

<p>My first milk.</p>

</body>
</html>

Example Explained

  • The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
  • The text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content
  • The text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading
  • The text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph

Reference:http://www.w3schools.com/

Criteria For Self-Assesment 1

Filed under: Particapation — Tags: — admin @ 4:55 pm

As what we did in last semester, a participation list is really helpful to supervise  myself  follow my goals. The following tips are for my first period study:

1.Post 3 entries each week, including lecture, lab,and extra study, also i have a timetable for this plan, i will post these entries on Monday, Friday, Sunday respectively.

2.Attendance.I missed two weeks study,so i must go to each class in the future.

3.Download at 2 readings each week and post thier reading reflection in Extra Study part.

4.According to course guide, i made a plan and divide my assisgment into several parts, it is good for finish them smoothly.

5.Take the initiative to make grogress in group work.

6.Get a good habit about consideration, take an example, what is HTML, how to use it,why ,where,etc.

7.Practice makes perfect,i should get used to using Macbook and thier software in this semester, also develope my blog skills and projects by the way.

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