Friday, October 24, 2008

Muddiest Point # 9

Kompozer, once learned, seems as though it will be a big aid in helping with our websites.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Reading Week #9

Martin Bryan's Introducing the Extensible Markup Language explains to us why we need XML. HTML is designed mainly for web browser's XML allows us to use it for other type content. XTML is a presentation language whereas XML is a data description language. The more I read the information the more I begin to understand it. The article A survey of XML standards pt. #1 explains the core standards. XML 1.0 second edition set the standard .XML 1.1 set the first enforced standard for XML . Extending your markup XML tutorial and XML Schema Tutorial explains the different types of elements such as empty elements and complex elements. one of the greatest strength of XML Schemas is the support for Data types. Seeing the examples also helped me understand them.( Element) I understood this weeks reading a little more last weeks.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Reading Response Week # 8

Reading week #8
W3 SCHOOLS HTML was an interesting article to read. While I am unfamiliar with a lot of the terminology, I expect that completing the next assignment will help.
HTML Cheat Sheet and W3 cascading style sheet tutorial, again information that I am unfamiliar with. The tutorial seems to explain the different functions of the items it was defining. As I become more familiar with building a Web page, I expect that I will understand the concept more clearly.
Beyond HTML is the article by D.Goans and et al. This article explained the success of a library system and its content management system. That management system manages 30 websites and was developed with the help of several Georgia State librarians.

Muddiest Point week #8

Muddiest Point #8
I understand both the concepts of Hypertext and Hypermedia more clearly. They both didn’t appear to be really difficult concepts, but they were a little hard to wrap my mind around.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Reading Summary Week Seven

Jeff Tyson’s article, How Stuff Works was extremely informative. There was so many terms that I was familiar with, but not what the jobs they were actually fulfilling. POP(point of presence), Internet router, and Internet Protocol. A new term for me was the Internet Backbone.
Andrew Pace’s Dismantling Integrated Library Systems was actually a walk down memory lane. My library system a few years ago moved from the DRA system (which I still love) To Sirsi Unicorn which is a thorn in my side. The article also offered solutions to dismantling such as My Library Portal Interfaces, subject guides, dynamic web pages and PC management systems to name a few.
Lastly, The Google video was interesting. Just when I believe I know all there is to know…I am glad to see that they are an employee friendly company and also take the passions of their employees to heart by giving them room to be creative. Froogle was also something that I hadn’t heard about.

Muddiest Point Week # 7

I still find the RFID Management System interesting, but do we really believe patrons will choose it over human content?