Summary

Over the last seven weeks I have become familiar with sites such a s Blogger. Del.icio.us and Flickr, developing an online presence as well as a greater awareness of what I can do on the internet.

So far on blogger, I have made a total of seven posts, one for each week – keeping up with work. I have covered my thoughts on HTML and CSS as well as flickr and Del.icio.us.

I altered the look of my blog by choosing a preset template to work around, available on blogger. To customise this template to my liking, I selected the “edit HTML” option, where I used CSS to:

- Change my background image by using the body { background-image: url( I found a picture of a petrochemical refinery from Google images and pasted the url inside these brackets ) tag

- Then straight after set the background properties to FIXED do it didn’t scroll with the page and create a confusing mess using the ; background-attachment: fixed; tag

- Set the body of the blog to show semi-transparent black posts using the background-color:#FFFFFF; filter:alpha(opacity=70); tag

I then used the template to change the font, colour of my text, titles and borders because the style sheet got too confusing for my tiny mind.

Apart from work, I have used blogger to
comment on friends posts

On Delicious I have 29 saved sights, my favourites being
imageshack because it’s a great, accountless image hosting page
and

espew because of the free music downloads

I have also been updating a few photos onto Flickr, not my own because i don't have a camera, but some interesting things from the net. Oh and i also joined some sort of club about cats yawning... it's strangley addictive.

Templates

Templates are a preset structure of CSS codes that relate to the layout of a webpage. They allow you to allter fonts, colors, paragraphs, tables, backgrounds and the entire look of a webpage.


templates conveniently seperate the actual written content and information in a web page. This means you can change them separately, avoiding confusion between the two. Templates do not allow you to change the written content in a web page.

CSS

CSS seems to be an upgrade on the basic style and web page formatting of the old school HTML. It allows the page builder to quickly make changes that apply to the whole page as apposed to having to sift through the HTML content and add in changes to every tag it may apply to.


without the page formating of CSS, the plain text format is boring, confusing and lacking in visual structure. It certainly makes viewing the internet more enjoyable and productive by organizing information neatly into tables and brightening up the page for the viewer.

Similar Sites

Here are some other bookmarking sites I found


startaid.com


netvouz.com


simpy.com


What's with this... there are so many link saving sites and i had no idea, do i live under a rock or something?