This is the link to the website we were supposed to find for the mapping & table assignment. I found it fairly useful:
http://msconline.maconstate.edu/tutorials/XHTML/XHTML07/xhtml07-03.htm
Since there were no examples of circle or polygons on the class site, or at least, none that I could find in my desperate search for one, this page really helped me out!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
GIF, JPG, & PNG- Who, What, Why, & How
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/gif-jpg-png-whats-difference
-By Matt Mickiewicz and Nicky Danino
These are different file types for storing graphic information. The most popularly-used is probably the jpg which can support 16.7 million colors & is intended for storing photographs. However, because of the need to compress to store information, a jpeg loses information from the original image with each save. That information cannot be regained. Jpgs should be used to save photo graphs or images that do not look better with only 256 colors.
A gif file supports a maximum of 256 colors & is ideal for images with large areas of the same color. According to the article it is the only way to put animation online aside from programs like Flash. Besides photographs, it is the probably the best way to present most graphics. Gif files do not lose data with compression like jpgs do. Gif's also support transparency which will allow a graphic designer to set the background color of the image & interlacing which allows information stored as a gif to be downloaded on the internet in several stages giving the illusion of speed. Gifs should be used for graphics like logos, line drawings, & icons, but not for photos or images with long stretches of continous tone.
PNG is the newest file form & was designed to improve upon gif files. It supports streaming & progressive file formats. It provides greater range of color than the gif, up to 24bit in color. However, png files cannot support animation, so they will never be able to completely take over from gif files.
~Kate
-By Matt Mickiewicz and Nicky Danino
These are different file types for storing graphic information. The most popularly-used is probably the jpg which can support 16.7 million colors & is intended for storing photographs. However, because of the need to compress to store information, a jpeg loses information from the original image with each save. That information cannot be regained. Jpgs should be used to save photo graphs or images that do not look better with only 256 colors.
A gif file supports a maximum of 256 colors & is ideal for images with large areas of the same color. According to the article it is the only way to put animation online aside from programs like Flash. Besides photographs, it is the probably the best way to present most graphics. Gif files do not lose data with compression like jpgs do. Gif's also support transparency which will allow a graphic designer to set the background color of the image & interlacing which allows information stored as a gif to be downloaded on the internet in several stages giving the illusion of speed. Gifs should be used for graphics like logos, line drawings, & icons, but not for photos or images with long stretches of continous tone.
PNG is the newest file form & was designed to improve upon gif files. It supports streaming & progressive file formats. It provides greater range of color than the gif, up to 24bit in color. However, png files cannot support animation, so they will never be able to completely take over from gif files.
~Kate
Quest for more History...
In my neverending quest to understand how all this internet stuff developed, I came across this article:
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html
It's quite a comprehensive web-site that starts off explaining the differences between html and xhtml. If I understood correctly, the World Wide Web Consortium( W3C) introduced xhtml in 1999 to set-up standards for web design that would translate into the expanding community of web browsers (mobile phones, tv's, pda's, car...along with the good ol' computer!). Xhtml is capable of being extended far beyond the programming capabilities of html...and it's capable of being validated. Validation is important because the ultimate goal is to have computers not only display web pages, but UNDERSTAND the pages. So, in the future a computer would understand that a page was about, say, 'wombats' and find you other articles throughout the world wide web.Quite interesting!
~Kate
http://www.miswebdesign.com/resources/articles/web-design-xhtml-1-1.html
It's quite a comprehensive web-site that starts off explaining the differences between html and xhtml. If I understood correctly, the World Wide Web Consortium( W3C) introduced xhtml in 1999 to set-up standards for web design that would translate into the expanding community of web browsers (mobile phones, tv's, pda's, car...along with the good ol' computer!). Xhtml is capable of being extended far beyond the programming capabilities of html...and it's capable of being validated. Validation is important because the ultimate goal is to have computers not only display web pages, but UNDERSTAND the pages. So, in the future a computer would understand that a page was about, say, 'wombats' and find you other articles throughout the world wide web.Quite interesting!
~Kate
First REAL Attempt...
Although I've had many online journals, I've never had one with a specific purpose in mind, so hopefully I won't wander too far off topic here...but bear with me if I do because I do love writing in journals...
http://www.webmonkey.com/97/17/index0a.html?tw=authoring
Since I know next to nothing about how the internet works or was developed, I went on a search for some history. This is a short article giving a quick review of how html was created & expanded. It talks about the simplicity of the language being text-based & how this allowed anyone with a basic word processor to to create documents for the Web. From the article I get the impression that innovations & improvements in html come about largely through trial & error- developers put new ideas out there & let the internet community decide if the new 'tags' will become commonplace or not. There is resistence to allowing companies like Netscape or Microsoft gain proprietary versions of html. The original concept was one of content negotiation & die-hards want it to remain that way.I'll post more as soon as I find them!
~Kate
http://www.webmonkey.com/97/17/index0a.html?tw=authoring
Since I know next to nothing about how the internet works or was developed, I went on a search for some history. This is a short article giving a quick review of how html was created & expanded. It talks about the simplicity of the language being text-based & how this allowed anyone with a basic word processor to to create documents for the Web. From the article I get the impression that innovations & improvements in html come about largely through trial & error- developers put new ideas out there & let the internet community decide if the new 'tags' will become commonplace or not. There is resistence to allowing companies like Netscape or Microsoft gain proprietary versions of html. The original concept was one of content negotiation & die-hards want it to remain that way.I'll post more as soon as I find them!
~Kate
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Hello!
For some reason, the link from the professor's email never worked for me, so now I must go on a journey through blog-land to actually find the class link...
~Kate
~Kate
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