Over the last term we have learnt many things in MPI104. The main aim of learning all this was to eventually put together a website. Firstly we learnt about CSS – Cascading Style Sheets. CSS was designed to enable separation of document content and document presentation to make modifying the look and layout of your website easier. Next was File Transfer Protocol (FTP). This is where we can transfer our files that we create on our computer onto the World Wide Web. We were all given an Athene account to publish our websites too. Next we learnt about adding counters to our websites. This was so we could keep track of how many people actually visited our space. At the moment the counts are only around 80, but the more different and exciting things I add to my website, the more hits I will get… hopefully... We also touched on RSS feeds. These allow you to subscribe to web pages using RSS feeds, and get updates on your webpage when they update theirs. RSS feeds have a monthly subscription cost and are very handy in keeping up-to-date with events and such. We then signed our blogs up to technorati. And because my website is visited very little and not up-dated a lot, I also have no authority in the technorati world. But I did learn that Technorati is a great tool for businesses or even just for a person to keep track of what people are ‘saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics and, other areas of interest, on the Internet in real time’(Technorati 101). It is a great source that works different to RSS feeds. It reads all WebPages, not just RSS subscribed ones. So eventually after learning all of this info, we were able to create our very own personal webpage using IWeb. Here we added counters, links and even a RSS subscription. All in all it has been a very interesting and useful semester in MPI104.
If you would like to visit my latest website, please feel free to click here !
