Here are a few of my designs and artworks which i have done over the past year

2007 HSC MAJOR ARTWORK

Welcome to my [BLOGGER] space, its like myspace but better!

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Beginning of June, End of multimedia! [Mpi104_2008 review]

I've finally been able to upload my athene webpage onto the internet.
click HERE to visit my new athene webpage.

What have i learnt from the multimedia subject over the course of the semester?
I have gain valuable skills and education in the field of multimedia this semester. At the start of the course i was clueless about what the internet had to offer me, i only used it for social purposes such as facebook, bebo and msn messenger. as the week went by, our lecturer Damian taught us that the internet has more uses than we really think. He also educated us on how various webpages are made and the page elements that make them up. To start off the course each one of the course member was required to create their own Blogger account, we learnt that blogger was a free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video across the web free of charge, in other words it was our own personal page where we were able to post up comments and blog entries on anything we like. Throughout my blogger site i have uploaded things such as youtube videos, pictures, newsreel and many other miscellaneous elements, however the main purpose for this having a blog in this topic was to post up comments on each topic that we learnt about in the upcoming weeks.

- The next week we created our very own flickr account [click here to view my flickr account], this was a free webpage that allowed me to upload and store photos of anything i like, it is basically an online photo album which is really handy as i would be able to upload and have access to my photos anytime i want via the internet. I currently have 19 photos uploaded and plan to upload many more in the future.
- We them learnt about was Del.icio.us [click here to view my Del.icio.us account] This was a social book marking place where my collection of favourite websites were stored in a organised manner through the use of tags. Del.icio.us enabled me to keep links to my articles, blogs, music and many more sites through the web, it also allowed me to share my favourite pages with friends and family. I have now bookmarked over 40 websites.

After creating 3 accounts for different uses we now learnt more about the technical stuff such as:
- CSS [cascading style sheet] was what placed everything into order. without the use of CSS we are left without style and control over the documents presentation. CSS is what separates the document content [written in HTML or similar markup language] to the document presentation [written in CSS].
- Templates are the various custom made layouts which gives the webpage designer control over the page aesthetics and the overall design.
- FTP [File Transfer Protocol] is used to exchange files over the internet [file transfer]
- RSS [Really Simple Syndication] is a webfeed whcih delivers regular changing web content such as blog entries, podcasts and other news related sites. In my blogger i have RSS feeds from three different sources which can be found on the left hand side of my page, these include feeds from the MPI104_2008 blogger page, the band "Franz Ferdinand" and my very own Athene webpage [Click here to view my Athene Webpage]
-TECHNORATI is an internet search engine used for tracking blogs, it is currently tracking 112.8 million making it more popular than google, yahoo and ice rocket. I have registered for an account and added a technorati page element to my blog.
- Counters are computer programs which are used for tracking down the number of visitors who visit your webpage, it also shows how popular your page is. I got my free counter from easy hit counters and currently have over 165 page hits.
- LAST of all i now have my OWN ATHENE WEBPAGE. I made it using my Athene account and the apple program iweb. I then uploaded it onto the internet through Fetch.

Overall I have learnt so much from the Mpi104 course this semester and look forward to learning much more in the future =]

tom

1 step closer to completing the mpi104 2nd assessment...

AT LAST... i finish creating my athene webpage and it doesn't look too bad lol. all i need to do now is to go down to to the Jackcross centre tomorrow morning and upload it onto the web as i do not have Fetch. hopefully iv'e covered all aspects of the second assessment and pass...now to continue booking webpages on del.icio.us, adding photos to my flickr account and write a summary of what i have learnt this semester in the mpi104 class.

Flickr

unfortunately i haven't been able to retrieve my forgotten password for my flickr account, so after trying every single password i have ever use and having the page locked for 14hrs. I've given up and created a new flickr account.
here is the link to my NEW & IMPROVED Flickr account.This is also the link to my old account
i hope you enjoy looking at my pics =]

Maroon 5 feat. Rihanna - If I Never See Your Face Again

Communication art magazine

Current Issue: 2008 May/June Issue $8 (U.S)
i bought mine for $20 from Borders book store in Rouse Hill...what a ripoff! great magazine though...

The May/June issue offers feature articles on Toronto's Westside Studios, where many of Canada's top photographers work; the Minneapolis design studio of Aesthetic Apparatus; New York illustrator Yuko Shimizu; as well as a detailed look at the innovative graphics for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the many facets of online advertising; and a selection from the 2007 EULDA awards. CA's regular columns offer insightful commentary on typography, business, creativity, design trends, advertising, design culture and design issues. This is one issue you won't want to miss!

here is the link to the [communication arts homepage]

Counters

Web counters or Hit counters keep a record of how many page views the webpage has received. These counters are computer software programs that indicate the number of viewers who have entered the page. Not only does the counter have a purpose, it also aims to improve the aesthetic look of the page by allowing web designers to choose from various fonts, style and sizes. The number is usually displayed as an inline digital image or in plain text. Web counters are commonly used to alert web users of the pages popularity; however this can at times be misleading. A webmaster could start the counter at a high number to give the impression that the site has been established for quite some time now. Increase number of hits could also persuade users that the page is more genuine due to its popularity shown through the number of visitors who have visited the webpage.

Technorati

Recently we learnt about Technorati. Technorati is an internet search engine used for tracking blogs. Technorati has currently tracked over 112.8 million weblogs. Its popularity has now put it in competition with various world-known internet search engines across the web, such as Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search result, with recent results coming first. The searches on Technorati often results in more up-to-date news than google however be cautious of the many results on Technorati for many of them are spam blogs, also known as “splogs”

According to their about page, Technorati currently tracks over 112.8 million blogs. Every time one of those blogs writes something new, they send a ping to Technorati, telling them they've posted something new along with some tags and basic information about the post. Technorati immediately adds that post to every search for any of those tags.

RSS

The initial RSS are used to refer to Really Simple Syndication, however many web users also refer to this abbreviation as standing for Rich Site Summary. Never the less, RSS is a web feed format which delivers regular changing web content such as blog entries, podcasts and any other news-related sites.

RSS is a problem solver for those who regularly use the web. It enables web users to easily be alerted and stay informed about the latest news by retrieving the content from the numerous sites that they are mostly interested in thus saving time on visiting those many sites individually. All the updated content from multiple web sources are stored in one place. Web users therefore are able to remain anonymous and their privacy is ensured for there is no need for them to join each site’s email newsletters to gain constant updates.