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Chanel's Blog

Hey guy's welcome to the awesomeness of my blog... ahem not really ; ) Basically this blog is for monitoring my progress in my MPI 104 class at Uni!! Enjoy your stay in my world!!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

MPI-104 Review

To be frank, I was wondering if I was ever going to understand this subject at all. Recently I've been researching quite a few things, in particular the HTML stuff. I've developed a kind of morbid fascination with it; it consumed me for a while. I finally got the general gist of it and was able to do some pretty cool aesthetic re-vamping to my blog, which I'm fairly proud of because even though I like computers, they don't necessarily have a tendency to like me. So to learn the technical side of things, I think has been really beneficial in the long run, even if it felt something more akin to running head first into a brick wall at times. I initially fiddled with the colours and fonts, which procured some pleasing, if not generic results, which was cool for a time but I wanted to do more. So I began researching HTML backgrounds and eventually after much deliberation managed to place what is on my blog now. I also started messing around with the fonts and changed my blog title to "French Script", which is one of my favourite fonts, and added random artsy images because that's just how I am. There are a total of 5 posts on my blog, so ok here is a link to my favourite post:
I've commented on a few class members blogs as well, here is my most recent one:

Del.icio.us was a new one for me, one that I actually wasn't that interested in but actually turned out to be pretty useful. I've now bookmarked 25 pages; a lot of them are to do with anime, manga and fantasy art but that's because I'm a nut and I use them for whenever my head gets a bit foggy and I need inspiration. So here are a few of my bookmarked webpages:


And then there was Flickr, which was my all time favourite, and that wasn't just because of the new anime
and manga image resource. I also found that it was an awesome place to post the scans of my work for VFX.
I have 191 uploaded images and here are some of my chosen images:


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

CSS

I can definitely, easily see the advantages of using CSS. You can make a web page look about a thousand times more interesting and aesthetically pleasing. Also practically you can make the content of your page a lot more accessible to anyone who's on it; making it easier to locate certain areas with the minimum amount of hassle. 

Monday, April 7, 2008

del.icio.us

Yes, not a very original title for this post but what can I say. Del.icio.us is an interesting idea although I cant see myself using it much out of MPI 104. I can see it being very good for organization especially if you're doing research for a particular project; so you find a useful site and bookmark it. I can also see it as being an aid to efficiency; making it faster and easier to access favourite web pages faster. So without further ado, here's a link to mine del.icio.us