http://edenorelove.blogspot.com/2010/10/unit-8-reading-responses-html-and-web.html?showComment=1288467163856#c481012455642565318
http://saralis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-notes-for-111.html?showComment=1288467547030#c8758793178380912447
http://kaitmlyons.blogspot.com/2010/10/muddiest-points-1025.html?showComment=1288466422060#c8171142354364793393
Saturday, October 30, 2010
11/1 Reading Notes
W3 HTML Tutorial
Like others, I have bookmarked this for future use, because it is plausible that I will need to know the fundamentals of HTML as some dark point in my career. My web-cool friends have informed me that most programs I will be using to build and host sites with will take care of the HTML for me, but one never knows. I like the specificity of the site, and the concrete nature of the language. So much of what I’ve studied before has had large fields of gray; this is all black and white.
I must admit, though, that the claim: “HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it,” terrifies me. Right off the bat, I know the trajectory of the task. I’m dealing with people who openly overestimate my tech-savvy. This is either casual blindness or shameful marketing.
Learn tight-rope-walking for fun and profit in one easy step!
Webmonkey
This is more a reference tool than an article to comment on, but as such I suppose it could end up being more helpful in the learning process. I can see how, until you’ve mastered the process, this guide would be invaluable. This whole HTML process is reminding me quite a lot of a Japer Fforde novel. It takes some mental redirection (like backing up a trailer) to accept that web pages are born from such chicken-scratch.
W3 CSS
Let me see if I’ve got this:
Cascading Style Sheets are essentially a designer-created matrix for HTML documents. So if I have to input or update information into twenty different pages of a site, I do not have to start from scratch on each page. I design my CSS once, and it will determine the style (translated for Philistines like myself: “look”) of all twenty pages. I can then simply focus on the content of each page, and be home for dinner on time.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system. Library Hi Tech, 24(1), 29-53.
I think I would need to know more about a few things to fully understand the study referenced here. I understand that the FrontPage-published websites that GSU’s Libraries had been using were poorly-designed, inefficient, and unsecured. The CMS, by comparison, gave its users more flexibility and greater security, while saving every page in a database, and allowing librarians (and maybe patrons) to customize their own links…. I’m still honestly fuzzy on some of this.
Like others, I have bookmarked this for future use, because it is plausible that I will need to know the fundamentals of HTML as some dark point in my career. My web-cool friends have informed me that most programs I will be using to build and host sites with will take care of the HTML for me, but one never knows. I like the specificity of the site, and the concrete nature of the language. So much of what I’ve studied before has had large fields of gray; this is all black and white.
I must admit, though, that the claim: “HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it,” terrifies me. Right off the bat, I know the trajectory of the task. I’m dealing with people who openly overestimate my tech-savvy. This is either casual blindness or shameful marketing.
Learn tight-rope-walking for fun and profit in one easy step!
Webmonkey
This is more a reference tool than an article to comment on, but as such I suppose it could end up being more helpful in the learning process. I can see how, until you’ve mastered the process, this guide would be invaluable. This whole HTML process is reminding me quite a lot of a Japer Fforde novel. It takes some mental redirection (like backing up a trailer) to accept that web pages are born from such chicken-scratch.
W3 CSS
Let me see if I’ve got this:
Cascading Style Sheets are essentially a designer-created matrix for HTML documents. So if I have to input or update information into twenty different pages of a site, I do not have to start from scratch on each page. I design my CSS once, and it will determine the style (translated for Philistines like myself: “look”) of all twenty pages. I can then simply focus on the content of each page, and be home for dinner on time.
Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system. Library Hi Tech, 24(1), 29-53.
I think I would need to know more about a few things to fully understand the study referenced here. I understand that the FrontPage-published websites that GSU’s Libraries had been using were poorly-designed, inefficient, and unsecured. The CMS, by comparison, gave its users more flexibility and greater security, while saving every page in a database, and allowing librarians (and maybe patrons) to customize their own links…. I’m still honestly fuzzy on some of this.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Muddiest Point 10/25
A bit off-topic, but here it is:
Would search-engine-marketing or pay-per-click experience be valuable to academic libraries? I know that there is a push toward heavy marketing in public libraries, but is the same true of academic institutions?
Would search-engine-marketing or pay-per-click experience be valuable to academic libraries? I know that there is a push toward heavy marketing in public libraries, but is the same true of academic institutions?
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Comments, 10/23/2010
http://kaitmlyons.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-notes-1025.html?showComment=1287847182843#c8520820253260098701
http://marclis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/readings_21.html?showComment=1287847867238#c7172393115263972308
http://cstalkerlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/unit-7-internet-and-www-technologies.html?showComment=1287848322255#c240249638888962712
http://marclis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/readings_21.html?showComment=1287847867238#c7172393115263972308
http://cstalkerlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/unit-7-internet-and-www-technologies.html?showComment=1287848322255#c240249638888962712
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Muddiest Point Fast-Track-Style
I would just like to say thank you to all the on-campus types who welcomed us Fast-Track stepchildren with open arms.
And: I had planned on making connections with actual people so that I could connect faces and hasty first-impressions with their blogs, but I failed, and I apologize.
And: I had planned on making connections with actual people so that I could connect faces and hasty first-impressions with their blogs, but I failed, and I apologize.
10/25 Reading Notes
Jeff Tyson: Internet Infrastructure
This was wildly informative. I’ve heard simple descriptions of how the internet functions, and I’m sure that Tyson has only scratched the surface here, but I think I got the basics now. It is fantastic to me to think that the magical, futuristic connectivity that spans the globe (and allows most of humanity to communicate almost instantly) can be reduces to cables underground or up in the air. All that data still hums through something similar to the telegraph wires that crossed our nation in the 1860s.
I also appreciate that it is the agreement between huge companies that allows this to function at all. I didn’t realize that the West had underhandedly exported the free market around the world. I guess the Google-in-China debate has layers I hadn’t thought of….
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
Libraries have earned such a reputation for thrift (or stinginess, depending on your bent and motives) that vendors know they won’t be buying their best technology. Tech-developers have begun to hawk basic service platforms, so librarians won’t need to hack or jury-rig them. Librarians are the Cuban mechanics of software, apparently (Cuba is filled with old US or Soviet-bloc autos which keep running for decades longer than intended).
Sergey and Larry
If my employer (if it hadn’t just laid me off) would have given me 20% of my time to pursue my own projects, I would probably not have created anything worthwhile. But I would be roughly 20% happier at work….
I don’t know what to think about these two Smashing Young Men who have made my own goals and accomplishments look…unambitious. Okay: pathetic. Sergey and Larry basically just spent 20 minutes explaining how much cooler their company is than the company I would own if I could have been bothered to start one instead of teaching my kids how to ride their bike without training-wheels or developing a taste for pho.
Thanks, Google. Thanks a ton.
This was wildly informative. I’ve heard simple descriptions of how the internet functions, and I’m sure that Tyson has only scratched the surface here, but I think I got the basics now. It is fantastic to me to think that the magical, futuristic connectivity that spans the globe (and allows most of humanity to communicate almost instantly) can be reduces to cables underground or up in the air. All that data still hums through something similar to the telegraph wires that crossed our nation in the 1860s.
I also appreciate that it is the agreement between huge companies that allows this to function at all. I didn’t realize that the West had underhandedly exported the free market around the world. I guess the Google-in-China debate has layers I hadn’t thought of….
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
Libraries have earned such a reputation for thrift (or stinginess, depending on your bent and motives) that vendors know they won’t be buying their best technology. Tech-developers have begun to hawk basic service platforms, so librarians won’t need to hack or jury-rig them. Librarians are the Cuban mechanics of software, apparently (Cuba is filled with old US or Soviet-bloc autos which keep running for decades longer than intended).
Sergey and Larry
If my employer (if it hadn’t just laid me off) would have given me 20% of my time to pursue my own projects, I would probably not have created anything worthwhile. But I would be roughly 20% happier at work….
I don’t know what to think about these two Smashing Young Men who have made my own goals and accomplishments look…unambitious. Okay: pathetic. Sergey and Larry basically just spent 20 minutes explaining how much cooler their company is than the company I would own if I could have been bothered to start one instead of teaching my kids how to ride their bike without training-wheels or developing a taste for pho.
Thanks, Google. Thanks a ton.
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