Week 9 notes

Martin Bryan. Introducing the Extensible Markup Language

-XML= not a large clothing size, but subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language designed to make it easy to interchange structured documents over the Internet
-always clearly making beginnings and ends, ensures fall back options are available when access to certain components of the document is not currently possible over the Internet
-allows users to: bring multiple files together to form compound documents; identify where illustrations are to be incorporated into text files, and the format used to encode each illustration; provide processing control information to supporting programs, such as document validators and browsers; add editorial comments to a file
-is NOT: a predefined set of tags, of the type defined for HTML, that can be used to markup documents; a standardized template for producing particular types of documents.
-based on concept of documents
-set up to use markup tags (<…..>)
-can incorporate standard and nonstandard text elements, illustrations, tables
-contain three types of markup: processing instruction, document type declaration, and document instance

Uche Ogbuji. A survey of XML standards: Part 1. January 2004

-XML growing and difficult for beginners to navigate (probably why we have two readings and a tutorial on the subject.
-article is a summary of what the author sees “as the most important XML technologies, and discuss how they each fit into the greater scope of things in the XML world.” The author also recommends tutorials and other useful resources for evaluating and learning to use each technology which a fully clickable
-author=”a consultant and co-founder of Fourthought Inc., a software vendor and consultancy specializing in XML solutions for enterprise knowledge management. Fourthought develops 4Suite, an open source platform for XML, RDF, and knowledge-management applications. Mr. Ogbuji is a computer engineer and writer born in Nigeria, living and working in Boulder, Colorado, USA.” Seems well versed and knowledgeable on the subject

Extending your Markup: a XML tutorial by Andre Bergholz

-I found this article very easy to read and liked the addition of examples to aid in the overall presentation
-an important aspect of the article was the Nonterminal element Boom example, as we are going to library school
-Article pretty much covers same material as other in this week’s readings, but in a much more concise and plan fashion.

XML Schema Tutorial

-another w3schools tutorial, long but full of clear definitions, examples, and a test to assure you paid attention

Muddiest Point Week 8

How many sites actually have Meta tag, is it beocming more common?

Assignment 5

http://pitt4.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=24

Week 8 Comments

This week i commented on the notes of Susan; http://susangeiss.blogspot.com/, and Maggie; http://mhsyoung.blogspot.com/

Week 7 Muddiest Point

If one has an unsecured line and others use their internet, is they are way for you to find our if other people are connected to your server?

Week 8 notes

W3schools HTML Tutorial:
-Professor Computer will teach us about HTML
-HTML=Hyper Text Markup Language
-markup tags=tell the Web browser how to display the page
-use notepad example, program finally has a purpose
-scroll too far down and end up in Product Spotlight ad
-uses tags in brackets, lowercase cause it’s easier-not case sensitive
-provides useful examples of headings, paragraphs, Text Formatting Tags, (ie, indicates bold, pretty straight forward)
-character entities use numbers (ie, &=&#38)
-“An anchor can point to any resource on the Web: an HTML page, an image, a sound file, a movie, etc.”
-target attribute defines where link will open
-“With frames, you can display more than one HTML document in the same browser window.”
- tags provide the ways to input information on a page ( name, address, ect)
-“The bgcolor attribute specifies a background-color for an HTML page. The value of this attribute can be a hexadecimal number, an RGB value, or a color name”
-Colors, represented by 0s and Fs, sometimes other numbers in the wide variance, red=FF0000, lots of patters
-joke="How do you spell HTML?"
-HTML 4.0
-Meta, url schemes, encoding
-steps on how to publish your work
-very useful tutorial, numerous examples and samples, and even a TEST to see if you paid attention



HTML Cheatsheet:
-site is exactly what the title says, a HTML cheat sheet. Provides examples of tags, links, attributes, formats, frames, and forms that are probably the most common. Ex; Creates the largest headline

W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial:
-should read HTML tutorial before this one
-CSS=Cascading Style Sheets
-created for HTML 4.0 to resolve design problems of continually advancing web browsers
-“CSS is a breakthrough in Web design because it allows developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.”
-CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and a value
-can be external or internal, depends on size/pages of documents which is preferable
-CSS has properties for background, text, font, border, outline, margins, padding, lists, tables, dimension, classification, and positioning. These various properties aid in the coloring, formatting, spacing, and general appearance of a page
-links can be displayed in different ways using CSS
-Pseudo-elements
-images and galleries
-CSS2

Week 7 Comments

This Week I posted on the blogs of Elaina; https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5162573700267662965&postID=6323862938197647362&page=1
and Theresa: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5586031599791302355&postID=1548878469221727474&page=1

Assignment 4

Past 1:
gmail.video

Part 2:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30425155@N03/2906682432/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30425155@N03/2905839469/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30425155@N03/2905841017/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30425155@N03/2906687016/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30425155@N03/2905843685/