HTML Task

26 February, 2008 at 11:06 am (Module 3)

I viewed the Cloud Media http://www.cloudmedia.com.au/FTV244/html_intro.html  HMTL Basic website and viewed each of the tabs.   Some of the information was familiar, but at the end of the exercise still was uncertain on writing HTML. It wasn’t until after completing the HTML Dog HTML Beginner Tutorial:   http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/   that it all made sense and I realised that the Cloud Media HTML website is a very handy tool of have. 

Early in the tutorial I ran into trouble a couple of times by racing ahead to see the changes to my page, only to find no change had taken place.   But after returning to the tutorial and reading on I discovered that nothing was meant to change.   I quickly learnt to read the whole page before performing the task.

I found the personable language significantly contributed to the making this tutorial so easy to follow and understand.

I uploaded my webpage to the Presentations section of WebCT, and have provided a link on this page.

 

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Blog Task

26 February, 2008 at 10:59 am (Module 3)

This is the first time I have even looked at a blog.  I checked out several different blogging sites and joined up with a few.  After a bit of fiddling around I settled with WordPress. 
This look’s pretty easy … how hard can it be?  I choose my design, added a few widgets and then I came to a complete stand still.  I need to do some more reading on creating a blog.  The following points are examples to my continual learning process in blog development:
d Breakdown Posts into Groups for Easy Viewing

I created new pages on my blog using the Write facility.  I was trying to group all Learning Log posts together and all Module 1 Tasks posts together.  I will have to investigate further how to move all Module 1 Tasks posts from the main board to the Module 1 Tasks page.   I loaded all of the Widgets onto my side bar to see what they did and removed the ones I did not want.  I discovered that the outcome I was trying to achieve by creating new pages was solved by the Categories Widget.  I went back a deleted the new pages I had created.

 

d Attach a Microsoft Word Document

I tried to upload a Microsoft Word document for the Module 1 Tasks – Telnet.  I can’t find where it uploaded, so I have to assume that it didn’t work.   I looked through the Frequently Asked Questions and read up on what and how uploads and pages are used.  I played around creating pages and uploading documents trying a variety of methods making many mistakes (which I cleaned up as I went along).  Basically I knew what I wanted to do and discovered the solution through trial and error. 

I have had an interesting time with my blog and each time I attempt to update it, I learn sometime new.  The HTML task has been extremely useful in assisting me to make my blog look the way I want it to.

An snapshot of my blog can be viewed via the following link.

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