This unit has been very interesting for me. Before I didn’t know much about web design and after taking this unit I have learnt a lot more about it, especially css (cascading style sheets). I am looking forward on doing more web design in the future.

My website is finally up on the internet!!!

I’m sharing my friends hosting service and I have placed my website on the back of his website.

Below is the link to my Stonefest website.

This is the final design of my blog theme. I applied one of the tumblr blog themes to my blog and then used the custom html to modify it to the way I wanted it to look. To upload my images I hosted them on www.imagehosting.com. Below is the link to the original blog:

http://rworks.org/

This is a tumblr theme I just applied to my blog which I really like and I most likely will use this template for my blog theme because it’s really nice and neat.

Web 2.0 is the second generation of web development and design. Web 2.0 is a concept of the development of web communities, hosted services, video and music sharing websites, blogs, social networks, etc. Social networks and blogs such as Facebook and Twitter, allow people to generate and control content, in which they form communities. These Social network websites are very similar and rely on the ability of people to easily generate and retrieve their content and to present it in an appealing way. You can also make different interfaces using data from the above web communities such as Mash ups. Mash ups are a way to change various concepts of web 2.0 into hybrid forms. It involves exploiting the API by using the same data and presenting it in a different way. 

My website is pretty much done. My website contains nearly everything that is required in the unit outline except for some things like sub pages and a page fragment. This is because my website has being design to not scroll so therefore I can’t apply these to it.
Along the way of developing my website I learnt about position: absolute. I found it interesting how you were able to move div tags around the document like layers when applying position: absolute. This method of positioning seemed to have more too it because it is really simple how you can easily move things around. The problem that I found about it was that when you open the document in the browser, what ever had position: absolute would not stay in the position I wanted. This problem always happened everytime the size of the browser was different. This problem kept happening even though the div tags were inside a wrapper but I then found out the way to solve this problem. Everytime you would move something with position: absolute in css it would make a left style which cause it to change positions in the browser. So if you delete that style then it will not move and then you just need to adjust the margins and padding.
Now that most of my website is done i’m sure there will be a few minor things I will need to adjust for it to be completely fine but shouldn’t be a problem.

Week 6 lecture was about Web Publishing. There is an important aspect of the term traditionally referred to the distribution of books and newspapers, and now publishing has expanded to incorporate the Internet and other digital information systems. Electronic books, resources, videos, music, periodicals, blogs and other similar kinds of media, have also been part of the distribution of publishing. The Internet allows publishing of a vast area of media where as Web publishing is media that is accessed through the web browser. To publish files on the web you need a web hosting, and a domain name (url). Both of these are independent.

Week 5 lecture was about information architecture. In 1976 Richard Saul Wurman coined the term Information architecture. Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville describe information architecture for the web in 4 ways:

1. The combination of organization, labelling, and navigation schemes within an information system.
2. The structural design of an information space to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content.
3. The art and science of structuring and classifying websites and intrants to help people find and manage information.
4. An emerging discipline and community practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

From my understanding, information architecture is planning and structuring of your website in regards to how everything will work.

Richard Saul Wurman also describes a way for organising content called LATCH:

L) Location

A) Alphabet

T) Time

C) Category

H) Hierarchy 

Below is my design draft. It doesn’t look much like the websites in my design reference but it does have some design elements from them. Because this is the first design draft I made, I’m sure there will be some modifications to it.