Favorite Web Sites

http://www.valentinorossi.com/en/

This website is one of my favorite's not just because it's a motorbike site but the design is simple,neat and is easy to navigate around. I find the use of the dark background ideal for this page and the image also, which has had its saturation set to similar tones.


http://www.imagedzign.com/

This website is again simple and easy to navigate around with large images which slide across the page automatically. the dark grey background gives it a slight masculine feel which is also featured in the Valentino Rossi website.




http://www.thermaebathspa.com/

This website is at the other end of the spectrum as far as my favorite website designs go, the first two had dark backgrounds with two or three colour schemes, were as this website, the background is white and focuses more on the colourful photo images.

Favorite Blogs

http://www.guymartinracing.co.uk/category/blogs-by-guy-martin/

http://www.tommyracer.com/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=427

http://www.jamieoliver.com/category/news-and-blogs/blogs/

http://www.ablogtowatch.com/

http://boutiquebydesign.com/blogging/

Social Media Intro

The term “social media” refers to the wide range of Internet-based and mobile services that allow users to participate in online exchanges, contribute user-created content, or join online communities. The kinds of Internet services commonly associated with social media (sometimes referred to as “Web 2.0”) include the following:1

Blogs. Short for “web log,” a blog is an online journal in which pages are usually displayed in reverse chronological order.2 Blogs can be hosted for free on websites such as WordPress, Tumblr and Blogger.3

Wikis. A wiki is “a collective website where any participant is allowed to modify any page or create a new page using her Web browser.”4 One well-known example is Wikipedia,5 a free online encyclopedia that makes use of wiki technology

Social bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites allow users to organize and share links to websites. Examples include reddit, StumbleUpon and Digg.6

Social network sites. These have been defined as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.”7Among the most popular in Canada are Facebook and LinkedIn.8

Status-update services. Also known as microblogging services, status-update services such as Twitter9 allow people to share short updates about people or events and to see updates created by others.10

Virtual world content. These sites offer game-like virtual environments in which users interact. One example is the imaginary world constructed in Second Life,11 in which users create avatars (a virtual representation of the user) that interact with others.12

Media-sharing sites. These sites allow users to post videos or photographs. Popular examples include YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram.13

These categories overlap to some degree. Twitter, for example, is a social network site as well as a status-update service. Likewise, users of the social network site Facebook can share photographs, and users of the media-sharing site Pinterest can follow other people.http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/2010-03-e.htm

HTML Intro

What is HTML?


HTML is a language for describing web pages.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is a markup language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
The tags describe document content
HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
HTML documents are also called web pages

How the Web works

The web is a system for publishing pages of information on the internet, and for linking pages together using links.

Anyone can publish a page by uploading it to a web server. Anyone can read that page by typing its address into a web browser. This makes it very easy for people to share documents even if they are using what would otherwise be incompatible computers. In fact, that’s exactly why Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.

The web would be useful but annoying if you had to type the precise address - the URL (uniform resource locator) - for every page you wanted. Fortunately, you don’t have to. Web pages can include embedded links or ’hyperlinks’, so simply clicking the link will take you to that page. Following a trail of links is called ‘web surfing’.

History of the Web

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, about 20 years after the first connection was established over what is today known as the Internet. At the time, Tim was a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Many scientists participated in experiments at CERN for extended periods of time, then returned to their laboratories around the world. These scientists were eager to exchange data and results, but had difficulties doing so. Tim understood this need, and understood the unrealized potential of millions of computers connected together through the Internet.

Tim documented what was to become the World Wide Web with the submission of a proposal to his management at CERN, in late 1989 (see the proposal.), This proposal specified a set of technologies that would make the Internet truly accessible and useful to people. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. However, Tim persevered. By October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your Web browser):http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/