Week 10- Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top. The best way to increase your Technorati Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they'll link to you. Linking to source material when you blog is also a great way to engage in conversation and help others find what you find interesting.

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Week 9- Form & Content

WEBMONKEY v SPORTSGIRL

These two screenshots are of webmonkey and sportsgirl . I find the sportsgirl website to be aesthetically pleasing, easy to navigate, fun with a good use of colours. Webmonkey, on the other hand, I find to be disgusting as there are too many elelments, discusting colours and background and a lot of uneccessary elements that makes it hard to navigate and read.


What is aesthetics?

Aesthetics refers to how 'visually pleasing' a design is- It is designed to give pleasure through beauty- it has a pleasing appearance. Aethetics is usually subjective, according to opinion, although the aesthetics of design have been studied and some principals and elements of design are definantely objective.

Week 8- RSS

RSS is an XML-based format (using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) - a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web) that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. RSS allows a person's computer to fetch and understand the information, so that all of the lists that person is interested in can be tracked and personalized for them.
Rss is important because-
-A Hot Fix for Info-Junkies
-RSS Feeds are the Better Email Newsletters
Rss is an extremely efficient way to syndicate content. For web browsers, Rss is a way to regain control of their online experience. Users can have a better focus on the content by avoiding distractions such as pop-up advertisements and email spam.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information and services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics that computers and humans can understand. XML is great for information exchange, and can easily be extended to include user-specified and industry-specified tags.

here is a link to my Blogline
Here is a link to my rss feed for my del.icio.us