mpi104 revision and assessment#2

The end of the first semester is drawing closer and closer with each assignment being handed in and I’m really starting to freak out as I hope my blog page is interesting in terms of posts and aesthetics. I feel I have kept up to date with my work in multimedia as I do enjoy learning about programs that I will be able to use for the rest of my life. There are times where I do forget to post some of the websites on delicious but over the last few months it has become part of the ritual when I am using the Internet. My flicker account hasn’t had much of a work out due to the fact I broke my digital camera but as people say photos of drunk people are not really that interesting if you don’t know them!

So its two days before this post is due and I feel that I have adequately finished the checklist that Jo has provided as an outline for what we were meant to complete. There are a few posts that I even find boring but I’m just not that fantastic at writing so I am trying my best to make it as interesting as possible.

FLICKR


☑ has uploaded at least 30 pictures
☑ has organized pictures into sets or pools
☑ has uploaded screenshots of details of examples of good aesthetics in websites
☑ all pictures have titles AND descriptions
☑ pictures of interest to other students have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ pictures of no interest to other students do not have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ all pictures have tags other than MPI104-2007
☑ user has pushed at least 6 pictures to MPI104-2007 group
☑ user has at least 12 contacts, joined at least 3 groups and nominated at least 6 favorites

since the last assessment at the end of last term i have added more photos which have nothing to do with my friends and i getting drunk and being moles. so now there are more artistic photos from other artists such as 'alfredo d'amanto and his two pieces of photography which include mount etna and cocolari 'iron people'.


all my photos that i have uploaded have titles, descriptions and tags and most of the photos are in sets. though as i have a few photos and i do not have a pro account i am limited in the number of sets that i can create!

on my flickr account i have 30 contacts which is quite amazing most of which are from uni but there are a few randoms which im not sure who they are but none the less its all all. i also love looking in my groups for new and interesting photos. i am a member of 17 groups and they include street art, fashion photography, mpi104-2007, animatiors guild, light painting. all of which i have an interest in.

so when im looking in my groups i find many photos that are interesting and a few which i relaly like which i add them as a fav. you can see them in my favourite section of my flickr account.

DELICIOUS


☑ has saved at least 3 pages of bookmarks
☑ all bookmarks have descriptions
☑ all bookmarks have tags
☑ has bundled all tags
☑ all bookmarks of interest to other students have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ bookmarks of no interest to other students do not have MPI104-2007 tag
☑ has several other delicious users in their network
☑ has saved links for others

i currently have six pages of bookmakrs on my delicious account, this is because i have Incorporated delicious withing my Internet experience and saved the new sites that i found really good and interesting in terms of aesthetics and content.

all my bookmarks have titles, descriptions and tags. for example take a look at all my photography related bookmarks. all my tags are bundled except for the 'ones for others' which are a few for poodle, meg, matt and viv plus a few other various people.


i network currenty consists of 12 people 10 of which are fans. some of these people consist of cincity01, jeebuz, poodle., meg3willis and others. this allows me to quickly send a website to them if i think they would like it.

BLOGGER


☑ has more than the minimum posts
☑ has used working links in all posts
☑ has experimented with templates fonts and colours
☑ has included rss feed of their delicious bookmarks
☑ has a technorati “fave this blog” button on their blog
☑ has nominated ba-ma metablog as a favourite on technorati
☑ has counter (or sitemeter etc button) on their blog
☑ has a blog post about the visitors to their blog

Our class decided that the minimum amount of posts were to be twenty. I wasn’t sure if I would be close to twenty or not but when I checked I was already at twenty-two, I was really surprised but then I remembered most of my posts are short and not that in depth where as some of my friends such as Viv did have fewer posts but they were very lengthy and well written which I found very interesting.

All my posts do have working links. There was one post were the links did not work, which I could not understand why nor did Jo when I asked him about it but some how it started to work again and all is good. Last term I experimented with layout, templates, fonts and colours. Some would say it wasn’t that visually pleasing but I was thinking at least they were visiting my site! Though I do understand the comments people made about how it was hard to read. So I decided to update my blog aesthetics, it took me a while as it was basically trial and error when I was deleting a few codes from the html section of the blog layout.

At first I wasn’t too sure about the RSS feeds for my delicious bookmarks only because I still did not truly understand the full power of what an RSS feed could do. But after learning and listening to people talk about it I feel I have a good understanding about how people use it in everyday life and how they find it useful.





I have put a favourite link from technorati account on my blog so people can add me and my rank and authority will go up in the blogger world. At this very point in time my authority is 9 and my rank is 594,638. I’m not sure if that’s better than the last time I checked but its pretty good considering I have only used technorati for a few weeks! I have also added the multimedia meta blog as a favourite among my fellow class mates.




in the last week or so we learnt about visitors and counters. I had a counter last term but it was just one that showed how many visitors I had where as now I have a new one which from sitemaster which allows me to see how people entered my site and how they exited, how long they visted my site so on and so forth! since the the 30th of may i have had 64 visitors! previously i have written a post about visitors in class then a new one recently which was an updated one about numbers from visitors.

so in conclusion i feel that i have suscessful completed the checklist for this subject even though i feel like i havent done that much work i have its just because i have chiped away at it and not left everything to the last second, this has also helped me in learning everything in the outline of this subject.

i have had fun and cannot wait to do something else along these lines next term.

the new look.

well. im kinda bored now as the last week or two i have been doing my animation assignment which did not go to well might i add thus i now have all this free time so i decided to create a new look for my blog. it took a while cause i needed to delete a few codes from the html codes for the blogger backgrounds and add a few in that i created.


but i think it looks better as its different and you can read the text which is also a bonus!
i didnt include a title as it just looked wrong with the image that i put there!

at first i had a black background which is below in the screenshot but decided it was too dark for my likeing so i changed it to white!



so untill i get bored again it will stay the same.

WE LOVE SOUNDS!

yesturday my bestie steph and i ventured out to fox studios australia for the amazing and most well known music festival called we love sounds! it was a really good day and i saw many people that i hadnt seen in a while whilst also meeting new people!


the only bad thing that happened throughout the day was my friend steph droped her phone in the toliet and then her bf put her sim card in his phone which fucked his phone up as well! good times good times!

i was hanging out to see tiga. and when i heard 'sunglasses at night' i was in sheer bliss. its my fav. song thus we all just danced the night away!


soon to have some photos on flickr soon.

mpi104 : week 12 : tweaking templates/html

previously my blog was very busy but jo kept talking about it which at first i didn't mind but then i started to freak out so i changed my aesthetics of my blog.

so what i had before was a pre-made template that everyone can use from bloggers options. then i changed the size of the font and the type of the text also the colours. i made my title 'erin.' really large and in red which is like what it is now. i also uploaded an image to flickr and put it in the html. codes it took me a little bit to work out where i needed to delete the old background so i could insert the new one. but i managed to work it out.

the problem with my old template is that it made the text hard to read. which i was cool about cause i had nothing really interesting to say and i cannot write very well! anyway jo always commented on it so i decided to take out the background which has made it easier to read the different posts that i have created.

i feel that my template that i have created is very simple but its also very individual.


just to note . html stands for.

Hypertext Markup Language.

i had no idea thus i thought i would share with everyone.

VISITORS.

below i have included my first report about the visitors that went to my blog site. its not many but thats ok i will survive.



-- Site Summary ---
Visits

Total ............................ 7
Average per Day .................. 2
Average Visit Length .......... 8:56
This Week ........................ 6

Page Views

Total ........................... 43
Average per Day ................. 10
Average per Visit .............. 4.8
This Week ....................... 29




just to update you on my technorati numbers:

authority: 9
rank: 587297

so thats pretty good i reckon.