Assessment #2 - My Sick Website

Art-work which I have created in my 1st year at CSU is a major theme throughout my website. My home page has the following items on it:

• A brief descritpion
• Three links comprising,
• A flickr link
• A Blogger link
• A Delicious link
• A Hit Counter
• RSS Feed to my blogger
• Links to the next page and previous page
• A link on each page that links back to to my home page
• News feed - powered by Google
• Flickr pictures that change every minute, powered by Google
• RSS Feed icon to my blog

 My web-site consists of four pages these comprise, Home-page, about me, my art, my photo's, and pearls of wisdom.

In constructing this web-site there were many obstacles, the program was probably a lot easier to use than I expected. Setting up the RSS feed was somewhat confusing to set up and I don't know if this has been done right yet. The counter seemed rather straight forward until I published my web-site and I don't see any sign of it on my website. At this point in time I am not sure how I should approach or rectify this, and this is probably due to our good friend "TIME", time is not on my side at the moment. Good one time maybe next time.

About me is a brief profile about myself. My art consists of a series of designs and art work done in my first year here at CSU. My photo's consists of a series of photo's which have been taken in my back yard for a particular subject, the photo's were taken using my mobile phone I never ended using them. Pearls of wisdom is a page that consists of quotes for the day, some of which I find not only amusing but so true. In all honesty, this assignment has been not only trying but rewarding. Blogger out?

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Hello there

Assessment #1 Blog Post

Initially, when starting this subject I found it somewhat confusing and rather boring. However, as I have progressed and the confusion has slowly unveiled itself like the mist lifting on a cold morning, found many aspects of this subject to have merit and inspiration. Whether we like it or not the technology is here and it is being used in our every day lives as an effective means of communication that impacts not only our social lives but our working environment in so many ways.

Blogger:

My Blogger has fourteen post's currently, including comments made about other peoples posts. One such post of interest was a picture of a guitar posted by Anthony Sarina, Anthony's post http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthonysarina_mpi104/6074445413/in/contacts/ . I found this picture inspiring as it is something that I love to do when I relax and that's play the guitar or piano if there is one handy. Inspired by this post I added a link to one of my favorite movies that is Crossroads, the movie is mediocre but the music is awesome.   Crossroads final battle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atw6F47UCYM&feature=related

Changes and additions that I have made to my blog:

• Experimented with fonts, but was quite happy with sticking to the default
• Changed the colour of fonts
• Added a slide show
• Added videos from You-Tube
• Added current news clips
• Added borders to blog images
• Experimented and changed background appearances to my blog
• Updated user profiles

Delicious:

My Delicious account has ten bookmarks including tags. Three of the bookmarks that I have selected relate to sites that I visit quite often and encompass:

• Deviant Art - a passion for computer generated graphics and art
• CSU website (Interact) relates to my work-flow or studies
• Rhino Tutorials (You Tube) - a program that I have recently become addicted to

Links to these favorite sites:

CSU Interact
https://auth.csu.edu.au/login/login.pl?url=http%3a%2f%2fmy.csu.edu.au%2f
Deviant Art:
http://www.deviantart.com/
Rhino Tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rhino+3d+modeling&aq=3&oq=rhino+3d

Flickr:
I currently have thirty two images uploaded on to Flickr. The following links connect to the three images that I like the most:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patsyme_mpi104/6121260707/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patsyme_mpi104/6061286258/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patsyme_mpi104/6061286374/in/photostream

These images were selected because they were things that I have produced.

Crossroads

I don't really care too much for the movie after you have watched it more than a dozen times, but the music is still great. The best scene is the last battle between Ralph Mucchio and the devils henchman Steve Vai. I have added a link for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atw6F47UCYM&feature=related

Flickr Post

Graffiti Art

I took this photo up in Newtown Sydney, I suppose it is one way to make use of empty space.