Blog #3
I don't know about you guys but all of the acronyms that are being thrown our way get a little jumbled in my head. I thought that I would research a couple of them to familiarize myself but I found myself just trying to make sure I could figure out the blog post and our homework. On my quest for knowledge I came across a lot of information, definitions and useful websites that I will share with you. First things first, some computer terms that I wanted to understand a little better and then a few web sites I found useful and interesting.
RSS and FTP
RSS is referred to as Rich Site Summary or sometimes Really Simple Syndication. It is a group of "web feed" formats that are utilized to display continuously changing sites such as news and blogs. There are different readers that enable the data to be displayed. FTP is a common protocol used to trade and alter files over an IP computer network. As I think was mentioned in class it is built on a client and server relationship foundation. It also utilizes different control and data connections.
All of the above information was obtained at Wikipedia.
I've included a photo of the RSS icon D.J.ing at the club.
Technological Terms
- Semantics
- Signify with a mark or symbol a meaning. The meaning can vary from program to program.
- Parse
- Is the process of analyzing text.
- Syntax
- Is just a set of rules that governs the behavior of computer programming.
- Network Protocol
- Is basically the rules that govern the syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication.
All of the above information was obtained at Wikipedia
Useful Web Sites
- Throughout my posting process I came across several issues. One of which was trying to get my web site links to work. Although I am sure it was a misplaced something or other I finally figured it out after visiting W3C MarkUp Guide.
- Also after reviewing our first assignment, I found that I did not remember what DOCTYPE was so I researched that too. I found out that this is a declaration that you make at the very beginning of your HTML document (even before the <html> tag). It tells the browser what markup language you are speaking. There is an awesome website that explains this and also provides the different declarations for all different (X)HTML versions. It also provides a ton of HTML tags with their definition and usage. This site address isDOCTYPE and TAGS.
- Another aspect of the assignment that I was not to comfortable with was validation of our document. Soooooo, I looked that up too. I found a little info in chapter 10 of our book and then visited the free website mentioned. The website for free validation of your markup is W3C Free Validator. Of course if you just want to get info or join the W3C, World Wide Web Consortium, you can visit their site which is W3C-weet!
In Other Graphic Design News
My brother sent me an email with a link to
Typography: Amazing Alphabet Recreations. I thought that all of the alphabets were extremely inventive and shows how much typography can play into everyday life. I hope you enjoy it! If you want to visit my brother's Graphic Design Web site just go to ipoxstudios.com or just do a google search. I may be biased but I think is is pretty darn awesome! This is one of his creations that was posted on PSDTUTS.
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