Danallmighty’s Blog

1. Should the web be censored?

In short, no. The web is a large social forum where everyone has the right to post content to their liking, regardless whether you agree with it or not. If we were to censor the web as a whole we would also be taking things down that aren’t nessicerly bad, but are frowned upon by certain groups/people.

2.  If so, by who?

Research and develop a list of at least three of each of the below:

What movies were being shown?

• Z
• Medium Cool
• Weekend
• If…
• Last Summer
• The Wild Bunch
• Easy Rider
• True Grit
• Downhill Racer
• War and Peace

(List from http://www.listsofbests.com/list/9076)

What music was being listened to?

• Aquarius, Fifth Dimension
• Sugar, Sugar, Archies
• I Can’t Get Next To YoHonky Tonk Women, Rolling Stonesu, Temptations
• Build Me Up Buttercup, Foundations
• Dizzy, Tommy Roe
• Hot Fun In The Summertime, Sly and The Family Stone
• I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Tom Jones
• Everyday People, Sly and The Family Stone
• Get Together, Youngbloods

(Top 10 list taken from http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1969.htm)

 Find out major political events that happened.

Globally:

• Soviet Union launches Venera 6 towards Venus 
• Richard Nixon is the 37th President of the United States

 

 

 

What Makes a Good Website?/ What Makes a Bad Website?

http://danallmighty.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/internet-love-hate/

A list of things that can be done with the internet now:

• Online shopping
• Online businesses
• Online banking
• Social networking
• Online gaming
• Ability to share media content
• Email

A Internet Wishlist:

• Somekind or 3d virtual world

Navigation:

Menu Tree

Tab Navigation

Index Navigation

Drop down navigation

Page turning navgation

Metaphor & Icon navigation

Combination Navigation

How do I reference a website?

To reference a website we use APA Referencing. Using this we must reference the time, day, month and year it was accessed. Along with this we must also reference the name of the webpage and the url. If we were to look at my own blog it would look something like this:

Referencing. (2009, June 18). Retrieved June 18, 2009, from danallmighty’s blog: http://www.danallmighty.wordpress.com.

Referencing stuff from the web is easy and convienent, but there is a major disadvantage which is unreptuable sources. A prime example of this would be the site wikipedia. Being a site that allows the user to change or publish any information they want on articles, this allows people to upload information that may not be correct or even true. If you were to use information from wikipedia you would have to check all the way to the original source, which is easy enough but if you were to use a site like Oxford Online and The Times you can avoid all of this.

It helps that you check that more than just the one site has the same information. So instead of focusing on getting your information from one site use more than one.

Quantitative:

Quantitative research is objective. Looking at the hard side of an argument and distancing yourself from personal opinion and looking at what the results and research says.

Qualitative:

Qualitative research is the opposite, being subjective rather than objective. Looking at personal experiences, relations and other things that are affected personally. As opposed to the hard data of quantitative you have to take into account backgrounds and values.

Plain English:

When writing in plain english the objective is to be as simple as possible in your message. No cliches, jargon and confusion in meaning. Clear and understanding.

What are the e-governemt web standards and do you think they are necessary?

The E-Goverment  Web Standards are policies that set the standards for accessibility and policy-compliance web sites in New Zealand. What this basically means is that the web standards are there to make sure that there’s equality in the way New Zealanders can acces the web.

Yes, I think the access to the internet and how it’s accessed is important and everyone should have the same options and whatever other options they may need to make accessibility an easy experience.

Fixed:

http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines/index.html/view?searchterm=web%20standards

Fluid:

http://www.gamespot.com/

Flash:

http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/index.jhtml

What is the CSS box model?

A CSS box model is used to display a page on the web. Invisible margins, paddings and borders that allow you to create this box. You can have a main box and inside this box you can have any number of smaller boxes, as long as they’re set at different settings and sizes.

Discuss internet security precautions you should take when using the web:

• Install whatever updates your computer needs to protect it from the latest viruses and whatnot
• Keep Internet browser up to date
• Give wireless networks extra protection
• Don’t have too much protection
• Secure your network for future problems

How can you help a search engine index your webpages?

Design and content guidelines

• Have a clear hierarchy and text links
• Have a clear site map that points to the main and important parts of your site
• Have clear and  page content
• Think about the words used on your site (so they can be sourced in a search engine)
• Try and use text rather than images that contain text
• Check you have no broken links

Technical guidelines

• It is suggested to use a text browser such as lynx to examine your site this is because search engine spiders veiw your site in the same way as lynx dose
• Allow the search engine bots to crawl your site with out having to use session ID’s or arguments that track thir paths through your website.
• Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header
• Use of the robots.txt file on your web server
• If you use a content managment system, make sure that your systemcan export your content so that spiders can crawl your site
• Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines
• Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers

(This information was sourced from http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769)

 If you used the google search engine to find a webpage, if the links were always blue, Would this bother you?

If the links were always blue, then yes, that would bother me. Blue links remind me whether or not I have visited the link before or not. Even though this is just a simple luxury it’s quite an important one that helps internet users daily.

There are many diagrams of the internet backbone online. Find one that you think is the easiest to follow and link to it in your blog.

Two links that I came across were:

http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html

And

http://www.theshulers.com/whitepapers/internet_whitepaper/index.html

Discuss your understanding of website accessibility and its relevance.

 To be completely honest I didn’t know what web accessibility was until I looked it up on wikipedia, just right now. Now that I know what it is I feel pretty bad for not knowing what it was for so long, as well as not even knowing about it, I can completely admit that how I perceieve the web and work with it I have taken totally for granted. Things like not being able to use a mouse, seizures caused by flashing effects should definitely be addressed as everyone should have an easy and painless experience when using the web and everything that comes with it.